U is for Uniform

Uniforms are very popular in the spanko community.   The very wearing of a uniform can, in itself, give reason for a punishment to take place and spell out the proper ritual to be followed in delivering that punishment.   When a willing victim dons a uniform, then a pretense that the punishment has become non-consensual is also donned.

There is something almost surreally erotic in seeing a naked young woman touching her toes to accept several strokes of the cane across the bare bottom she is offering for such treatment.   That a few minutes earlier she was dressed in the uniform of a sixth-form school girl adds an extra veneer to a ritual that resonates with most apankos.

When we spanking fiction authors put our characters into uniform, a sort of contract comes into effect between us and our readers that when the spanking arrives, it will be keeping with the uniform chosen.   A prison uniform will inevitably result in a bout of prison discipline and a school uniform in a trip to the headmaster's study - or similar - for six or more of the best delivered in a suitable method of chastising students in a school setting.   Should we want, say, a school girl to be on the receiving end of something harsher than school discipline, the reader is entitled to be given logical details of why such an event took place - even in a fictional setting.    If you want your Principal to have a dungeon below his office, you have got some explaining, in depth, to do.

Historically, military uniforms are associated with specific types of corporal punishment.   It really was the practice of the British Royal Navy to use the cane on the bottoms of female cadets from the inception of the WRNS until the practice was formally abolished in 1958.    My tale "Over a Breach of Discipline" is based on an account given by an ex-Wren on what had really happened to her during her period of training.   

Another delight of uniforms, for us authors, is that the identity of the wearer is hidden from view.   It is a very common plot element in spanking fiction to have a female disguised as a male, by wearing a uniform.   When she eventually gets her beating, it is delivered with the same force as would be delivered to a boy's backside, and the unstated implication is that it results in far greater pain than that usual given when a girl gets a whacking as a girl.    In fiction, as in real life, ladies are not expected to endure the same level of force that is inflicted upon menfolk.

The girl dressed as boy is getting a little hackneyed, and a boy dressed as girl a little too twee for many of us - so do use cross-dressing with a degree of care.    (And the one where adults are role playing and it turns out - what a shocker - that the "school girl" is actually the male partner of the duo:  well that one has been done to death.    You will need more than the shock ending to successfully use that artifact again successfully - at least, for most readers of our genre.)

Uniforms can give a story form, natural flow, and be both easier on the keyboard to write and easier on the eyes to read.    Consider - you are contemplating a new tale and start off with a mental image of a six-form girl tied to a horizontal T-Frame, awaiting to be punished.   Answer the questions of how and why she is so bound, and describe what then happens to her defenseless bottom and you have over half of your story completed.   That is a very solid start to writing your next eagerly awaited piece of spanking fiction.