Mary and Kevin were rather edgy that Friday night, looking forward to what they would do after going upstairs to their bedroom. Like most young couples, they had sex regularly, but Friday night was special to them. Sometimes they went out visiting or to dinner or to some kind of entertainment. Sometimes they had company and sometimes they just spent a quiet evening at home by themselves, which is what they were doing that night. Whatever they did early in the evening, there always came a time when Kevin confessed some kind of wrongdoing, usually imaginary. Mary, outraged, responded by marching him upstairs to their bedroom and paddling his ass until he begged for mercy, which she didn't give him for a long time. When his punishment finally ended, they followed it with their best sex of the week.
What they used was basically a table tennis paddle from which they had removed the handle and replaced it with a longer one. The new handle included a rubber grip, so Mary could hold it securely while swinging it as hard as she could. That was extremely hard, because she used to be a varsity tennis player in college, and still played regularly. Both sides of the flat part of the paddle were covered with smooth rubber, securely glued in place. To cut down on wind resistance, a few small holes had been cut through the paddle. Mary could swing it as hard as she wanted, and it was very painful when it landed, but no actual injury would ever result. What they wanted was pain, not injury or disfigurement, and pain is what Kevin got an abundance of every Friday night.
It was ten o'clock; the local news program had just ended, and he composed his face into a look of repentance and turned to his wife. "My Dear, I have a confession to make," he told her.
Mary looked at him sternly and Kevin continued. "You know your little dog that died a few months ago? Well, he wasn't really sick. I poisoned him."
"You killed little Fido? Why, you no-good son of a bitch! I loved that little dog." Actually Mary had never owned a dog and didn't even particularly like them.
Like a one woman lynch mob, Mary sprang from her chair and grabbed her erring spouse by his ear. "You're gonna get it for that."
"Ow!" Kevin cried as he was yanked abruptly from his easy chair and, bent almost double, dragged by his outraged wife across the room, up the stairs and into their bedroom. Once there, she pushed him across the room toward the foot of their four-poster bed. Her aim wasn't really very good, but he stumbled over until he was holding one of the posts, his eyes fixed on the rope that he had placed there earlier in anticipation of this moment. The other post had a similar restraint attached, and an unwrapped condom was waiting for them near the foot of the bed. .