Note to Readers
This story is a fantasy. The students, faculty, and staff at Margaret Thatcher College are at least age 18. So, too, are their brothers and sisters, parents, uncles and aunts, as well as the adult townspeople in the northern Rockies community of Blue Popcorn Springs surrounding the College.
Thatcher plays women's volleyball in the NCAA's D3 league, and advanced as far as a March Madness playoff round recently, when young Miss Merriweather Cradle was a star setter. She credits her athletic training with giving her strength, hand/arm speed, hands of iron, and endurance to bare-handed spank disobedient bare bottoms, thighs, and/or genitals for as long as necessary.
Ms. Cradle thinks she might be bi-sexual. She admits, only to herself, that there are aspects of spanking a young woman, this particular young woman, that she finds ... troublingly arousing. There is no sex in this story.
Thomas Weaver College is a coordinate men's college across the street,. They share a Board of Trustee and educational / disciplinary philosophies.
Your words, kind or otherwise, are important for my growth. I will appreciate your suggestions and ideas.
The next chapter of Merri's discipline of Zia should be available stat.
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A Master's Degree in Corrections
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Merri cannot imagine a better job to gain experience for her long-sought goal, becoming a psychologist.
Margaret Thatcher College has used corporal punishment since its founding to teach and regulate its all-female student body. Generally a high achieving bunch of young women from non-permissive homes. Merri received consequences under the old Student Code when she was a Thatcher student.
Now that the nation has changed its Judicial Code, the College's Board of Trustees revamped the Student Behavior Code and the ways and means of applying 'natural consequences' that must follow from student misbehaviors. The Trustees' goal is what it always has been for every College endeavor: better prepare their charges to be exemplary women AND citizens. In thi modern times, to align the College's discipline practices with the state's new judicial code.
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A Disciplinarian's Office
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Merri brushes wet snow from her hunter tan and green parka and jaunty knit cap, icy flakes clinging to the fabric. She removes her cap and shining mahogany hair flows in smooth lines to her shoulders, around a long Nordic face. She stomps her duck boots on the mat and hangs up her parka and cap. She keeps her boots on because her first disciplinary visit is less than fifteen minutes away.
Although Merri wore skirts or dresses as an undergraduate, today she has on what she thinks of as her disciplinarian's office wear. Pants are permissible for faculty and staff who have physical job requirements. Hers is a very physical profession. Today is light grey, wide-leg pants with a coordinating rose turtleneck top under a short sleeve cardigan. All these materials are a blend of sweat-, tears-, and snot-repellant fabrics, for job-related reasons, with a touch of wool for seasonal warmth.
The scent of wet wool follows her in.
As usual each morning, she glances around her office in a wing of the Student Center. Simple, but not austere. Vibrant yellow and jade hostas, their foliage shimmering in the morning light, sit beside a window overlooking a serene scene of soccer fields and a quiet parcourse where students work out.
Merri actually looks at her furniture each time she enters. At her deep purple couch, two armless chairs, both cherry wood with matching cushions, and a smallish desk. Sees what a young woman coming for discussion, counseling and, frequently, corporal punishment, will see. 'Seeing' sets her in the right mindset. To be all she can be, the best Consequences, Behavior, and Academic Advisor she can be.
The 'and Academic' part of her duties is new this semester. Today is a consequences and behavior day. Tomorrow, academic mentoring. With 'reset' consequences for goals unmet. Happily for Merri's temperament, she has rewards to offer for goals met.
The girls, "her girls" as she now thinks of them, deserve their punishments. Merri's only quibble is that too often the Student Behavior Board ignores what she considers relevant background factors. Factors that do not relate to guilt. Factors appropriate to punishment. When Merri goes down this wormhole, she reminds herself she is not the young women's public defender, whose job in the outside world is mostly arguing about mitigating dispositions, not guilt or innocence.
There is, of course, no position of public defender for students appearing before the Behavior Board. The College expects its young women to speak up for themselves. An aspirational goal that rarely matches reality when scared. angsty, misbehaving women appear before the Board.
No, her role is executioner, jailer, chastiser, parole officer, headmistress, Advisor, sorority sister, or, and this is Merri's preferred description, loving but disappointed mother.
Students easily notice Merri's muddy brown, green and blue eyes, called by her eye doc 'heterochromia'. If a sketch artist were to capture Merri's face, he would see subtle hints of smile lines etched into her skin, barely noticeable but adding a layer of warmth and character. It is Merri's firm resolve that any student she spanks will find, when all is done, warmth in those eyes.
Merri gently sets her school-issue sage green and rose messenger bag with a very lightweight computer tablet on her desk. Two candids of her tabby cat, and a picture of her in a hot air balloon over New Mexico, taken during her last vacation, are the only decorations on one wall. Another wall displays her diplomas and two soothing Turner watercolor prints.
Not bad. Plenty of wall space for corner time. One cabinet houses her official implements for delinquent behavior 'consequences'. The Student Behavior Board prefers the euphemism 'consequences' over 'punishment'. She tends not to sugar-coat what she does using mealy words.
Two drawers contain punishment garments in assorted sizes for all body types. Both cabinets are painted a glossy light lilac, to blend with the even lighter semi-gloss lilac-colored walls and a pleasing grey, totally stain resistant carpet.
Next to her heavy dark-lilac wooden door is a full length, two-way mirror. Merri can look out into the corridor, but passersby cannot see in at her and the person she is 'teaching'.
She admits to herself that she relishes placing a naked girl up against the mirror for corner time. A girl who imagines she is on full public display. The cold mirror glass creates shivers and hardens a girl's nipples.
Merri's vivid imagination paints a picture of her own nude body, exposed (so miscreants believe) to prying eyes of corridor passersby. Of course, it is fully within her official mandate to require a girl to reflect on her (mis)behavior by actually standing out in the corridor, without half or even all of her undergarments.
If this is required, Merri instructs the lass to hang her panties and, if previously removed, her bra, on convenient hooks tactically placed on either side of the mirror.
There is plenty of sound-dampening insulation in the walls, ceiling, and door, Merri knows from when deans punished her in a similar room (lacking the mirror then). Screams are muted, but not silenced. The sound proofing in the remodeled discipline offices is calibrated so that the many students who use this corridor in the Student Center may hear faint screams of agony or pleading. Deterrence of crime by others is one goal of any well thought out correctional regimen.
During in-office spankings, a palpable sense of unease often mingles with the faint scent of fear in the air. For some young women, as their punishment increases, arousal's secretions add to the bouquet.
Merri may play soothing music before a punishment, such as her favorite, the Moonlight Sonata. Her playlist includes other music to heighten a girl's fearful anticipation, introspective melodies to encourage reflection, or foreboding music to accompany authoritatively the cadence of a punishment. She'd had a class on just this topic of music to complement spankings.
Silence, flavored only by noises a girl makes during her punishment, and the swish of any implements of correction during corporal punishment, is usually most desirable, Merri believes.
Continuing her morning ritual, Merri always takes a moment to appreciate her office's specialty furniture items. The sight of her official adjustable spanking bench catches her eye, its chocolate leather upholstery inviting but firm to the touch. Or beneath a girl's bare flesh.
Next to it stands a pommel horse. It consists of a long, polished to satin-smooth, 2-inch-thick walnut, inverted U shape crossbar. Adjustable-height legs raise or lower it to suit a recipient's waist height and to provide a sturdy foundation. The normal use of this pommel horse for punishment is to secure a woman over it, her legs and arms tethered to the legs.
Merri's body trembles, a shiver running down her spine as she envisions herself in two contrasting roles - one as a stern disciplinarian, the other as a helpless recipient. The pommel horse, in her imagination transformed into a riding horse, looms before her, its presence filling the air with a mix of anticipation and unease.
Another use of the pommel horse becomes acutely clear to a convicted young woman when she is compelled to straddle the dowel while it is gradually elevated until she balances one foot on either side of the dowel on tippy-toes. The mere thought of a young woman, her muscles straining, as the hard wood 'U' presses against her pelvic bone and the young lady's delicate flesh and lips crushed in between, is deeply unsettling to Merri.
Vivid memories of overwhelming pain when she 'rode' a similar horse in graduate school flood her mind, causing her to clench her bottom cheeks as if feeling the ache all over again.
She considers the device cruel, and thus far has avoided its use. However, she knows the Board will inevitably mandate it this semester.
Level 1 and 2 corporal-punishment-plus sessions take place by appointment in a naughty girl's dorm room. There, part of the 'plus' is a student's fear of what her dormmates might hear or see. Merri's job is to use that fear, and the other emotions boiling up in a young woman whose behavior has been adjudged unacceptable, to make her consequences more effective.
Effective in the sense that the young lady actively seeks to behave better, to make better choices. Merri must be a loving mother, albeit a chastising mother.
The furniture in Merri's office is exclusively for more serious punishments, those for Punishment/Behavioral offenses at Level 3 and up. Those appointments are in the offices in the Student Behavior wing of the Student Center. This office. Her office. Her name on the door: Merriweather Cradle, B.S., MA (Cor.).
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Merri's Vocational Education
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Corporal Punishment is an incredibly attractive option for state legislators. "[I]t is so simple and effective. Even a fine issued to an offender requires collection and enforcement when the criminal does not pay. Prison is obscenely expensive for society. Even community penalties [such as probation, parole,] or working for free, require monitoring, supervision and further enforcement if the offender does not comply." None of that with corporal punishment -- arrive at a Short Shock Punishment Center, submit to your sentence and voilà . Satisfaction -- and titillation -- for the taxpayers.
A year ago Merri graduated from Margaret Thatcher. Last Spring, she completed the College's master's program in Applied Behavioral and Correctional Counseling. The nation's recent switch to using corporal and other embarrassing and/or humiliating punishments for traffic and many non-violent offenses led to a need for such programs. Of course, the nation's Short Sharp Punishment Centers require staff. An average prison guard from the many jails that closed didn't have the right temperament.
Merri's master's curriculum included Behavioral Psychology 202, Young Adult Motivation 203, Spanking 401-402, Advanced Implement Chastisement 403, Enhancements and their Uses, 401-402, Disciplinary Counseling, and Constructive Listening 102 and 402. Plus, four subject-matter academic counseling classes.
Most of her courses required hands-on, and hands-on bottom, labs. Also, there is a practicum during which master's students shadow current Consequences and Behavioral Advisors and try out their new skills on undergraduate women who needed correction.
