The navigation is easy and the number of ‘tour’ pages has been significantly reduced. This, I am told by their web designer, is because extensive monitoring of the 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 115 films in the members-area of the site.

The latest clips are all high-quality 960×576 high resolution and last 1 minute 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 150+ 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 back-paging to get back to the thumbnails.

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

All the films are now in Windows Media WMV 9 format.

The latest films are in 960×576 pixel format consistent with being filmed on a HDV wide-screen format camera rather than those of the older films which were filmed on a 760x57c HD camera, but all the films are to the highest quality. 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, as with all spanking sites, 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.

But to continue with the blog. It is of course first and foremost a commercial blog. It is there to promote her paysite. I know therefore that some ‘spankos’ will dismiss it. Commercial = False Right? Well, maybe in some cases but not in this one. The blog is filled with spanking pictures and once a week she writes about the film which will be updated on the site. The rest of the time however she writes, well, she writes what she is feeling. Her writing of this blog gives the reader an insight into her spanking life and the ongoing journey she is on. It seems that she has a regular following and unlike a lot of the more commercial bloggers, she takes the time to answer the comments and questions the readers leave for her.

Some of her posts are erotic, others heart warming and some are quite funny. I am not quite sure if they are meant to be though. Spanking Sarah is in my opinion well worth a read. See the site here

Sandy seems to be the main character on the RedStripe website, in saying that, I had to go back a long way through the free clips to find any evidence of this lady. She is kindly put, a little more mature than takes my fancy and perhaps a little too full of figure but I am well aware that quite a lot of gentleman and indeed ladies, do favour this look over more ‘stick thin’ model types.

A lot of free content is available on this site – again, not sure if they need to give quite so much away and the quality of all the clips I saw where good. The ladies range from the very young and beautiful to the quite old and not so, but as they say, beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder.

I can see that this site would hold a lot of appeal for the gentleman who dreams of getting hold of ‘the girl next door’ giving her a good seeing to before pulling her over his knee.

From what I have so far seen I can honestly say that this site covers a niche which needed to be met in the spanking market place. The sex element is almost dirty and the punishments seem not only genuine, but hard in their application. My only real criticism would be that finding the ‘join page’ was not as easy as perhaps it could have been. I may be wrong, but I was unable to find a ‘join’ option on the first page. Membership is reasonable (when you find out where you can get it that is) at only £16.65 for thirty days.

Would I join? The answer to that question is perhaps no. Can I see why many would? Absolutely and I would like to commend Sandy and co for showing the world that spanking is not just for the body beautiful.

The site itself is new and fresh looking and is updated on a weekly basis. It claims that the films are shot in high definition and judging by the quality of the free clips, I do believe this to be the case. There are not one, but two pages of clips showing trailers of the antics of Sarah and Co. I am not sure if so much free content is required but who am I to complain? The membership price seems more than reasonable £16.65 gbp for 30 days or £68.67 for 180 days with the promise that a continuation of your membership will mean that you get to keep the same price forever.

If Spanking Sarah is indeed what it claims to be on the tin, then I can’t see there being any real complaints to be made about this site. I will of course be able to tell you more once I have done a full review of the sites content.

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.

“I’m Adele Haze. I live in England, but come from Eastern Europe. I’m into CP/spanking, with a heavy preference for role-play and age-play. A while ago I decided that it would be hot to be spanked on camera. So I went out and became a spanking model; it’s been fun so far. I don’t like sex very much – and don’t mix it with spanking, in any case – but I suspect I’d have a hard time convincing folks that a girl who gets her bare bottom smacked on film isn’t a sex worker, so I might as well embrace the label.

I spend more time ploughing away at my degree than perving myself out, so I haven’t yet had a chance to do a lot of shooting, but I’ve done some.”

Rather an understatement we feel.

Her blog has been running since February 2006 and she combines articles on her blossoming spanking career with her insights into the UK spanking scen and events she has attended as well as other spanking related material. The article are illustrated with stills from her movie and website appearances.

Adele has also recently started to review some spanking sites, the latest being SoundPunishment.com, and she shows a keen and knowledgable eye about the material and production values on that site.

Her style is light, insightful and entertaining and well work reading with updates done on almost a daily basis.

We give this blog 90/100

http://www.adelehaze.com/

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

At the top of the page we have a clear menu which allows easy navigation around the site, including access to a spanking personal ads area and a professional-looking helpdesk system. As this page indicates that the site is updated weekly, it may have been better if this were reinforced on the scrolling list of updates which tops the first page of the tour.
Hitting on any of the top three images on the index page will take you to the first tour page, I would maybe have liked something more here, perhaps a video or a larger picture. There is a free video however on the site’s index page and I have to say I was very surprised by the quality. With so many web sites still insisting on giving poor quality video clips in the free area and then trying to tell us that the quality in the members area will be better, I am delighted when someone says, ‘look at this. Its free and its top quality and that’s what you get’.

I had just read the text telling us about the site and learnt that it is run by a husband and wife team and, maybe unfairly, I was expecting to see something a little more, well not quite up to the mark but as I say, a top quality video sample, right on the front page, that gets me interested.

Passing quickly over the rest of the first tour page text, it does go on a bit, we have the scroll down list of past updates, as I said I would have liked to have seen them dated but that is just a small niggle. There are a couple of places to click through to the join page from here so no complaints there, clear and to the point. This page seems to be all about updates so we skip quickly onto the next section of the tour and find six high resolution video clips. These are all around 4meg each so the site is obviously aimed at broadband users and why not I say.

First impressions are of a site put together by amateur enthusiasts trying to get a message across and maybe doing too much of everything in the process. The background to the pages is messy, like a bad wallpaper job in your sitting room, this tends to detract from the text and pictures. The menu buttons are again a little obtrusive and just ad to the impression of untidiness, too many ideas not executed as well as they could be.

There is a fast changing animated gif on the first page, I always find these things distracting and in this case doubly so as it leads to a chat, message system heavily populated by adverts for insurance and other money making sites. Yes I know that I should have followed the menu tour button but seeing this flashing picture thing there just distracted me, it may also distract others who are looking to see some great spanking pictures and leave them thinking that it might not be worth the trouble, and that would be a pity.

Going further down the page we find a series of pictures at quite low resolution advertising the latest update, these would have been better placed at the top of the page maybe, as you won’t see them till you have passed below the large menu, extra text and the flashing gif. Going even further down the page we are offered the chance to join a Yahoo group. Now call me old fashioned but I think when someone has taken the trouble to find a particular web site from the thousands on offer, started to explore it and got past the inducements to buy a new ipod or whatever banner is showing in the chat area the last thing you want to do is to send them away from the site to the sad morass that is the motley collection of spanking sites that have not yet been culled by the Yahoo thought police.

Bars and Stripes

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.