Spanking Review

English Spankers has for many years been a leader in British Spanking web sites. They were the first to start shooting and editing their material in High Definition video and, because of the long association with Remington Steel, a renowned producer and film maker, their production methods and quality were guaranteed to lead the site where others just could not go. That there have been a number of changes of direction within the site will not please everyone but I look at it from the viewpoint that change, movement and diversity are important factors in keeping a website live and pertinent to today.

What did I not like? Well I have noticed that some of the films I liked to go back to from time to time to watch and re-watch seem to have disappeared, that photo sets are not always relevant to the film, that the content varied between school type scenarios with lovely young girls being well spanked and the more ‘domestic’ or office, home based scenes with more mature but, it must be said, still very attractive ladies. I suppose here I am showing a bias towards my own likes and dislikes.
The webmaster at ES told me that films that do from time to time disappear will come back only re-edited and at a much higher quality. I had forgotten that this site has been running for many years now and the earlier films will have been encoded at lesser codec’s than we find acceptable at the top end today.

One thing you will notice since our mini-review is that the Sound Punishment site has undergone a complete visual makeover. The site now has a clean front page listing the last six updates with the images linking to a film preview page.

The navigation is easy and the number of ‘tour’ pages has been reduced. This, I am told by their web designer, is because extensive monitoring of teh traffic through the site revealed that having a lot of preview pages was unnecessary as the vast majority of visitors never completed the tour.

The video preview page has, at the time of this review, over 30 free clips for the latest films, out of a current total of 91 films in the members-area of the site.

The clips are all high-quality 720×576 resolution and last 30 seconds each. They give a good flavour of the spanking content available to members.

Inside the members area the navigation is simple and effective with a page of thumbnails for navigating the 147 high-quality photo-stories and links to two pages containing the schoolgirl and domestic films.

The image galleries contain images which are all 1000 pixels on the longest side and each gallery has its own extensive thumbnail page. All of the full-size images open in anew window when the thumbnail is clicked so that you do not have to be constantly backpaging to get back to the thumbnails.

A sample of the images are displayed at the end of this post.

The films inside the members area are in two forms. Early content uses RealMedia as the encoding codec whilst the majority of the films, each of about 10-15 minutes in duration, are in Windows media 9 format.

All the films are in 720×576 pixel format consistent with being filmed on a DV format camera rather than an HD camera, but they are none the less in quality for that. The lighting is good and the sound recording quality is above average for this kind of movie. It is just a guess but I think this points to off-camera quality microphones being used as there is no evidence of lens motor or camera handling noise – something that is unavoidable when on-camera mics are used.

The films are somewhat formulaic in format

• Girl/lady does or is accused of doing something wrong
• They are told off for it
• They are punished

This is not a criticism though as all spanking films fit the same format, it just depends on the proportion of each segment that makes up the film. Fortunately Sound Punishment have decided that the first two segments should be minimised and the last, and for us the most important, the punishment maximised. Therefore on average over two thirds of each film is devoted to the placing of hands, paddles, rulers, tawses, plimsolls (gym shoes for our US cousins) straps and canes in close and rapid proximity to a varied selection of bare bottoms. This for our reviewers was a big plus because we see too many films from other sites of 30 minutes duration with only 5 minutes of spanking.

The ladies range from early 20s to mid 50’s and the scenarios include

• Schoolgirl
• Adult schoolgirl roleplay
• Wives
• Secretaries
• Lovers
• Models

and many more.

The acting of the ladies when punished varies from the stoic to almost hysterical weeping and the display of the ladies’ “naughty bits” from full covering to “nurse please pass me the gynoscope” ….

There is something for everyone.

The male leads are good, either a well-known headmaster figure (who owns this site) seen on several other sites to occasional guest spankers which include Mr Stern from English-Spankers. They contribute a good dialogue to the films and the action is filmed to concentrate on the girl and not the spanker.

The cost of membership to this site is $34.95 for 30 days (recurring billing) and $89.95 for 90 days (choosing either recurring or non-recurring billing when you join). At under 40 cents per film this is excellent value for money.

All in all we were very pleased with this site and don’t think you will be disappointed.

Bars & Stripes scored 22/50 on our mini-review of the free-site content and design. Fortunately this low initial score does not reflect on the quality of content in the members area.

Entering the members-area you find a clean menu and greetings area with dark-green background and red control buttons. A little too ‘Eddie Stobart’ for me, but effective as a branding exercise nonetheless. You are welcomed as a visiting prison Governor
The menu on the left hand side of the page divides the site into the following areas:

• Navigation
• Home
• Latest News
• Inmates
• Matron
• Updates
• Prison Diaries
• Suggestion Box
• Contact Us
• Prison Area
• Governor’s Office
• Cell Block
• Intake Office
• Solitary
• Sick Bay
• Interview/Visiting
• Prison Grounds
• PT room
• On the Outside
• Governor’s House
• At Large

Bars and Stripes is a new site on the British Spanking scene starring some of the best female spankees in the business such as Leia Woods, Kara Jayne, Emma Brown, Amy Hunter, Adele Haze, Niki Flynn, Gina Moon, Dublin O’Brien … the list goes on and on.
Set in a fictional women’s correctional facility, it tries to portray how most red-blooded males would want a female prison to be run.

After the almost obligatory ‘RU 18?’ entrance page the site opens onto a graphics-rich page. The header of the page incorporates an animated gif file of a rather rapid spanking which, though eye-catching, will slow the page loading for people viewing it on slower connections.

As you progress down the page some large thumbnails of the latest content are shown, all of which link to the JOIN NOW page and not to any enlargements of the images. A scrolling message box is used to display site news.

A link to a Preview Clip is next. This takes you away from the site and opens a download window. It would have been better to have set up this link so as to keep you on the site. The sample is in WMV format, 4.92 Mb in size, 1min 10sec in length, 352×288 pixels encoded at 700 kB/sec. The quality is good, the clip comprising of video sections interspersed with still images. This is the only downloadable content on this page.
The table below that box shows the updates to the sites with dates, whether they were an image update of a video update. Clicking on the associated images just takes you the Join Now page again.

Girls Boarding School …. It must be one of the most evocative spanking site names on the web. Conjuring up to the dedicated spankophile images of nubile young ladies in school uniforms being spanked by their teachers over their school desk in class.

Now here is the rub. I have looked extensively in the members’ area for such scholastic props as a school desk, blackboard, classroom etc., and there are none! Which is a shame.

That said, the site has lots of extremely beautiful young ladies wearing, or nearly wearing, school uniforms, pyjamas, underwear and sometimes completely naked. All of them getting severely spanked, strapped and caned across pristine white knickers and over regulation school underwear, which is then removed to show reddened welts and skin. And it was a sublime experience!

I cannot think of a more spiritually rewarding career than being a spanking website reviewer…….(except maybe being a spanking model .. in headmaster role of course!).

And my conclusion after all this spiritual enlightenment? … Girls Boarding School is a temple worthy of worshiping at.