The curious history of the carpet beater

In England, America and many other countries, using a carpet beater as a spanking implement is a fairly modern innovation.

The first time (as far as I can tell) that the very idea of using one to spank an errant female came about when Brit Ekland wrote that she had been spanked by her father, with a carpet beater, when she was 15 years old.

Now, this should be no surprise -Brit was born in Sweden.    In 1957 (when she was 15) Swedish carpet beaters were totally unlike British or American ones.  They were long, thin, flat, pliable pieces of wood - hard and solid enough to beat dust out of rugs - and thus made suburb instruments of correction.

Now, Brit being very sexy in the late 60's, and the tale making the rounds of those who share our interest, some photo-shoots started including carpet beaters in their scenes.   Not Swedish ones, but British and American ones made of bamboo curved and plaited in the tradition known to as all as the Victorian style.

It is not impossible that it might have been the custom in Victorian households for the master to chastise servants and daughters with such a carpet beater.   Not very likely - for the old fashioned Victorian carpet beater was somewhat inept for delivering punishment, and the instant standby of a freshly cut birch rod was always to hand as a far more effective corrective mechanism.

By the time Janus and other modern spanking magazines picked up the thread, it was generally accepted that a carpet beater was a useful tool in the spanker's arsenal, and those magazines managed to add an erotic element that had not been there before.   So implement makers started making "carpet beaters" that were not totally unlike the Victorian model, but reshaped to concentrate the impact area to the size of an average pair of buttocks.

I think it might be time for a video producer or photographer to reenact Ms. Ekland's original ordeal, but this time using the implement that had actually made her bottom so sore, and not one that others have substituted in its place.