Our new place is split over three floors, with bathrooms on the top and bottom levels of the apartment. And, whilst we adore the quirky layout, I was forever finding myself on the wrong floor of the house to the one on which I last used my prized hairbrush.
The solution? Buy another brush, of course. And a kinky person really can only own one brand (if they’re fortunate enough to be able to afford it) – the very lovely Mason Pearson.
The model I purchased was a “Junior”. And when Bambi and The Hunter happened to visit that very evening, an experiment comparing my new purchase to its sibling hairbrush was inevitable.
The Hunter duly christened the new brush, before sending Bambi upstairs to me. I whacked her with the old one (the “Popular”), which she pronounced to be the more painful. But that wasn’t the whole story, of course: we each had to then take our turn with the other brush before we could be satisfied with the scientific robustness of our conclusions. Hence a cute girl found herself scampering up and down stairs, a different hairbrush in hand each time, until we concluded that it’s the new brush that is actually the more effective.
So if you’re purchasing a Mason Pearson for the purposes of discipline and punishment, it’s a “Junior” brush that you want for the young lady bent over your knees. Appropriate, really, I think…
Although I don’t get it with the hairbrush myself, I’ve read enough spanking stories to be aware of the usefulness of its backside when brushing my hair. It’s an odd appeal it shares with other implements that have innocent uses like belts and kitchen spoons (an online acquaintance once called them “pervertibles”).
There are interesting types of spankings (dares for example) that don’t really fit into the common distinction between punishment and play (unless you understand play to cover everything but punishment). I’ve never thought of scientific spankings as a separate category but, having read this, I think they deserve to be one since they require a very different mindset from other types. There are so many fallacies to avoid … like pronouncing the second brush more effective without considering that it might have hurt more simply because it was already the second one. Anyway, I hope Bambi has endured it in the spirit of science.
Oh, and whoever picked the name “popular” had either no idea about the usefulness of the backside or a wicked sense of humour.
“And a kinky person really can only own one brand (if they’re fortunate enough to be able to afford it) – the very lovely Mason Pearson.”
What is it about that particular make of hairbrush? Does it turn up a lot in kinky films/stories? I have to admit that the only time I’ve ever really seen it mentioned is on your blog!
(All our hairbrushes are made of wood…)
I don’t think it’s a very scientific experiment if it’s only been tried on one girl…just throwing that out there 😉
One is slightly wider than the other? I don’t remember which one mine is – but I do remember when I first purchased it, being surprised that it wasn’t made of wood! It’s a whole different kind of sting!
Bambi – “I don’t think it’s a very scientific experiment if it’s only been tried on one girl” … It’s kind of embarrassing for the scientist when the lab rat starts to point out methodical flaws in the experiment, isn’t it? 😉
Faye – the ‘thing’ about Mason Pearson hairbrushes is that if you belonged to the class of person who habitually employed nannies and governesses and servants, then Mason Pearson was the only brand of hairbrush which would be considered – possibly because it was the first ‘machine’ made brush and therefore it was at the time, the height of technology, same as a few years ago everyone had to have a blackberry.
And as it was something found in just about any nursery, it would be easy enough for Nanny to use it when disciplining her charges (If you are interested in the Nanny culture, I would highly recomment the book The Rise & Fall of the british Nanny by Jonathan Gathorne Hardy)
Thanks domino