Gay Spanking

A ruler makes a popular tool for use as a pervertible, i.e. for corporal punishment, specifically called rulering, usually on the hands (either outstretched palms or knuckles) or thighs. Generally, solid, heavy wooden or metal rulers are used for this purpose, but lighter, often flexible plastic ones can also be used punitively, especially in gay spanking.

A spanking paddle is a usually wooden instrument with a wide, flat face and narrow neck, so called because it is roughly shaped like the homonymous piece of sports equipment, but existing in more varied sizes and dimensions, used to administer a spanking to the buttocks; it would be too hard and heavy to use safely on the back.

# A spanking paddle can sometimes be called shingle, apparently after its form, or be given names (rather like weapons in military and police units), especially when used in an organisation, that allude to its hot effect on the paddled posterior, such as ass-burner, butt-buster. Educators and children in households where a paddle is used for discipline sometimes award the paddle such nicknames also, such as “Lola’s bane” and “Mother’s little helper.” (Confusingly, sometimes non-wooden flat devices, such as straps, are wrongly called paddles, even in official institutions.)

# For a paddling various terms exist, some referring to wood, the usual material, such as giving wood, the woodshed treatment [from the old tradition that such punishments were administered in the woodshed], or more general term for spanking, for corporal punishment or for discipline such as punishment, a lesson, (rightly) deserved, (hide-)tanning, medicine, therapy, etc., and even incorrect terms that strictly speaking refer to a different method of corporal punishment, such as a whipping; it is also possible to specify the anatomical target (thus indirectly affirming it is a form of spanking), e.g. arse whupping.

A martinet (French word, possibly from marteau ‘hammer’ since one beats with it, and it is also a type of hammer in French) is a short, scourge-like (multi-tail) type of whip made of a wooden handle of about 25 cm (10 inches) in length and about 10 lashes of equal, relatively short length. The lashes are usually made of leather, but sometimes soap-stiffened cords are used in place of leather. It is a traditional instrument of physical punishment in France (in French it also meant a similar dusting implement; the type for chastisement was also known as fouet d’enfant, ‘child’s whip’) and other European countries.

The martinet was often applied on the calves, for children did not have to disrobe that way. Otherwise it was often applied on the bare buttocks, adding a dose of humiliation to the physical pain, like the English and Commonwealth caning, birching, naval boy’s pussy, American paddling, et cetera. As it is not blunt and heavy, impact on cloths would be reduced too much to remain effective.
It is generally considered abusive to use it for spanking children nowadays. Still, martinets are still sold in the pet section of French supermarkets; it is generally believed that a large share of those sold are meant for use on children, not pets, or at least to threaten them. It is also often still carried demonstratively by Zwarte Pieten (male black assistants of Saint Nicholas, the European original of Santa Claus, celebrated on December 6; attribute persisting where lashes are banned, as in Belgium) to chastise very naughty kids instead of leaving presents.
* The martinet is also used as an implement in erotic gay spanking scenes, hard to distinguish from the flogger but that is usually lighter.

A hairbrush is a brush used in hair care for brushing, tidying, and detangling human hair or a domestic animal’s fur.

It is typically used on longer hair, while a comb is normally used on shorter hair, but can be still used for short hair. For an equine’s thougher hair, a curry-comb is used.

Like stroking or licking fur in nature, the gesture on another person (or a pet treated like one) is often perceived as a mark of affection and/or a bonding experience, which can have a soothing effect, e.g. a cat thus groomed often starts purring.

Being conveniently shaped like some small paddles, it is sometimes used as a spanking implement, especially in the United States, applying the hard backside (usually made of ebony or hardwood) to the often bared buttocks of the naughty child, generally at home, either over the lap or a knee or just standing or bending over; similarly popular posterior discipline with an innocently looking object in the Commonwealth is a so-called slippering (also elsewhere, especially in schools) with footwear. It is not used anymore, though it was common in the yesteryears.

As a popular implement for erotic spanking, a hairbrush is a pervertible.

A crop, sometimes called a riding crop or hunting crop, is a rather short type of whip without a crack, used in horseback riding, hence also known as a horsewhip. A crop usually consists of a long rod of fiberglass or cane or which is covered in leather, fabric, or similar material.

The rod of a crop thickens at one end to form a handle, and terminates in a thin, flexible tress such as wound cord or a leather tongue. The thin end is intended to make contact with the body. The handle may have a loop of leather to help secure the grip.
* While it is considered proof of bad horsemanship and abusive to whip a horse painfully (Britain actually had laws against animal abuse sooner than against child abuse), the crop was used thus to lash human victims, such as grooms, other servants and children (possibly as an agonizing spanking), and even judicially, as a severe form of physical punishment, known as horsewhipping and more likely to leave bloody stripes than a (broader) strap. Such was still in use into the 20th century alongside the cat o’ nine tails in Delaware (county) prisons, applied to the bare back at whipping posts nick-named Red Hannah.
* The riding crop is still widely seen as the traditional symbol of dominance in BDSM activities, for actual use (rather symbolical or really lashing) or at least threatening. It is a logical choice because it is not only painful but also has the humiliating connotation of reducing the ’slave’ to an animal. Its material is the only obvious link with the common leather fetish in that scene.