A few weekends ago, Partner 1 and I went to a daytime play party at a private residence. We did a short hand spanking, and then I played with someone else, and then I got my hands on Partner 1 again. And this time, there were bruises.

That photo is right after our scene, while she was still on the spanking bench. I used, among other things: my hand, two canes, the bonker from Blush Industries, the Walmart spoon, the hockey puck, the bath brush, and the scene-ender.

A few minutes later, one of the other attendees at the party took a photo for us with her over my lap:

You can really see the colors starting to come in. Especially with that oval on the top of her right cheek where I got her really good with the spoon.

We drove home after a while, pausing to have dinner (at a restaurant with very hard wooden benches in the booths), and then I took this photo before we changed into comfy clothes:

Yes, her tattoo says “spank me”. You can see the colors starting to darken just a tad on her left cheek.

Then, the next morning, we took one more picture:

The bruises are already starting to fade a bit. You can see where some of them are turning yellowish, and the others are lightening up.

And, finally, here’s two-and-a-half days later:

Still bruised, but only slightly.

We happened to decide to do a pretty hard scene at that play party, but we don’t always do that. In fact, only a few nights before, we did a much lighter one with just my hand, a strap, and a leather paddle. She didn’t get any marks after that, but she still enjoyed it greatly. In the old days (the first half of the 2010s) I was still of the opinion that if the bottom wasn’t bruised then I didn’t do a good job. It’s why I was so frustrated after this spanking more than a decade ago. Nowadays, though, I would accept that spanking — and the result of any other where the bottom enjoyed themselves — as successful.