Some months ago — maybe years now — I put my Wood Worx domestic discipline strap in the “I don’t really use this anymore” box because I wasn’t happy with the results when I wielded it. I wasn’t consistently getting a good crack! sound and the impacts weren’t landing as I’d hoped.

(pen for scale)

It’s a nice strap, right? Well-made, good handle. I just don’t think I knew the right way to use it for me. (I say it that way because everyone has a different way that’s ideal for them to use certain implements.) Recently, though, I was going through the aforementioned box and I came across the strap. I remembered spanking a friend in a new way — instead of standing on his left and swinging with my right, I stood on his right and swung with my right. I was using one of his straps, but it was very effective in that setup.

So I took out my body pillow and started practicing with the Wood Worx strap. And, lo and behold, it worked way better than the way I used to use it.

Of course, the proof of the spanking is in the… um… whatever metaphor you like here… so I used it on one of my partners in that position.

And almost every time I got a nice sharp crack! without even swinging very hard.

Sure, I had to adjust my stance a bit for the height of the bed, the size of my partner’s backside, and the distance from the foot of the bed to said backside, but once I had that figured out I found that I was very much enjoying using the strap, in a way I hadn’t ever really done. It now sits out on my dresser, along with some other implements I never got around to putting away. (And I wonder what my house cleaners must be thinking when they do my bedroom. They’ve probably seen worse.) I use it fairly often.

It’s nice to rediscover an implement from time to time.