
If only... I look at the sense of disappointment when a romance novel has the perfect set-up for a spanking... And there isn't one.

Black Flip Flops are, of course, the internationally
recognised preferred footwear of a Dom. I know this from reading Sheri Savill’s Bound for Disappointment.

I love etiquette books. Test me on any part of Debrett’s Guide to Etiquette and Manners (1999 edition). Go on, I dare you. I know that baby back to front, inside and out.

Worrying, it seems from looking at the internet that there are swathes of people out there who simply have no idea at all how to eat a banana.

Writing historical fiction requires a fair bit of research. You might feel inspired writing about your ruff-wearing Victorian computer programmer and his love of hunting woolly mammoths but you are going to feel pretty silly once the reviews come in.

An Englishman in the 19th century wouldn’t have worn a belt. He didn’t even have a place to put a belt on his trousers. The fashion was to have smooth high-waisted trousers which created a tidy silhouette.

Some things sound like they SHOULD be porn but they're not. Like Catherine Cookson's The Whip and of course Free Willy.

McLintock poster willfully misleads the general public about the amount of hand spanking contained within the movie and makes a mess of the artwork as well.

I tend to be drawn to films where I know there is going to be
be some kind of spanking and below are four such films which I've seen and my thoughts on them.

I'm not going to rubbish E L James's work. There are far too many people doing that already. I am a bit baffled as to why it's being made into a movie, though.