After Oasis this year, I noticed something about the spankings I was giving. Maybe it’s the way people’s bodies changed throughout the pandemic; maybe it’s my style or intensity of spanking changing. But, for whatever the reason, I feel like my more intense spankings aren’t lasting as long as they used to.

Exhibit A: Someone who I hadn’t spanked in a year, but who, in the past, craved (and received) hard and intense spankings from me and others. Although she wanted to take more, her body wasn’t capable of it due to hardness of her skin after about fifteen minutes. I gave her a good ten-minute warm-up with my hand before progressing to implements.

Exhibit B: Someone who claimed he was an “iron butt”, but after only twenty minutes or so it became clear that I was pushing his limits so I stopped. He received slightly less of a warm-up since it was a punishment scene.

Exhibit C: Someone who has always said she is a hard player and who, when we negotiated, informed me that she wanted me to go hard. She got a firm warm-up with my hand before we progressed to implements, but the spanking lasted a little less than half an hour.

I’m remembering back to the pre-pandemic days when I used to give intense or severe spankings that lasted over forty-five minutes. I don’t think my spanking style has changed overmuch since then, so maybe I’m just getting more efficient with my spankings. Maybe my technique has improved slightly or gradually. And I’m fine with that. My concern is that it might make the spankings less satisfying for the people I play with; if they come to me for a long, intense, severe spanking and we only go twenty or thirty minutes, they might feel like they’re missing out on something and they might not want to come back for a return engagement. In the case of the individuals above, I don’t believe that to be the case — they all expressed satisfaction with our scenes — but I suppose it could happen.

Efficiency is great. But perhaps efficiency in spanking is not as great as efficiency in other things.