Spanking Porn: That's Too Sexy?

(Picture courtesy of Lupus Pictures)

This is the third and final part of my little series about spanking porn related topics (the first two were Spanking Porn: On Compartmentalization and Spanking Porn: Where Are You?). Today I would like to talk about another aspect concerning which Ludwig and I have quite similar points of view, with small differences though. It's a topic which was interestingly just recently also raised by Emma Bishop in the discussion on my last Kaelah's Corner post A Past And Future Secret. The question I would like to talk about is: How much sex should be involved in spanking films?

Ludwig and I are both purists when it comes to spanking porn. We both generally prefer  formal scenarios and we don't want those to be mixed up with sexual activities. The teacher fondling a schoolgirl or -boy he or she is punishing, for example. Or the prison ward sexually harassing an inmate after punishment. For me, even things like squeezing the spankee's bottom during a hand spanking can be a turn-off in a formal scene.

I think I am slightly more open than Ludwig for explicitly sexual scenarios, though, which depict couples in their spanking play. In that kind of scene an erotic atmosphere is perfectly okay for me. The same goes for Ludwig I think. But I can even imagine watching such a kind of film that depicts real sexual acts as well. It's definitely not one of my core fantasies, but I wouldn't be opposed to giving it a try. Ludwig prefers either spanking or vanilla sex in a porn video, he doesn't really like a mixture of the two.

What about nudity and private parts? Again, Ludwig and I have rather similar preferences here. We both are not interested in any close-ups of boobs and private parts, or open leg shots. Since he is much better when it comes to compartmentalization, Ludwig can ignore such things in an otherwise good scene, though. I have to admit that it irritates me when in a school scenario the camera suddenly zooms in from an angle which is so low that it ends up focused between the legs of the spankee, rather than on the bottom.

And there is another little difference between Ludwig and me. I usually prefer semi-clothed scenarios to full nudity. Ludwig on the other hand is a fan of full nudity, no matter whether the spankee is male or female. He is of the opinion that a completely naked body arranged in an elegant position (which doesn't focus on the private bits) is a very aesthetic sight. In Ludwig's point of view, men sometimes look stranger and more ridiculous with their trousers pulled down than fully naked. And he also appreciates all parts of the female body, not as the only focus (the lower private parts can even be hidden by a spanking bench), but as a part of the whole composition. Since Ludwig is into judicial scenarios, full nudity can believably be integrated into those scenes without adding too much of an erotic atmosphere between spanker and spankee.

There are several reasons why I am a bit more shy about full nudity. First of all, as I already told you a while ago, any form of humiliation in a formal scenario is a big turn-off for me. And often the only plausible explanation for full nudity, for example in judicial scenarios, is humiliation. A bare bottom can still be explained by necessity (clothes would provide too much protection), but full nudity often seems only to be explainable as an act of humiliation. Ludwig has a different view here, as I wrote above: especially when it comes to men, he often finds partial nudity to look more ridiculous than complete nakedness.

(Picture courtesy of Spanking Central)

I have to admit that I often find partial nudity, or sometimes even fully clothed spankings, more erotic than nude ones. If only the spankee's bottom is bare, the attention is completely focussed on the spanking. And even a fully clothed spanking can be highly erotic to me because it underlines the formality of the scene and the focus is more on the reactions of the spankee. Plus, in my view, people in beautiful dresses can even look more sexy than nude people. The picture which I've chosen from Spanking Central is such an example. It's taken from a clip of their series "Dojo Discipline". To me, the posture of the spankee is great and the martial arts suit looks adorable. Of course, clothed spankings don't allow the viewer to see the marks developing, though. That's why I wouldn't want to see them all the time and why I prefer to get at least a glimpse of the resulting marks afterwards.

I'm not generally opposed to nudity in spanking clips, anyway, because it can of course be sexy as well and it creates more variety. For example, there is an interesting scenario in the film The Headmaster's Study: Immodesty by Lupus, a picture of which is featured at the beginning of this post. In one scene of the film, two young offenders who are brought before the headmaster insist on being stripped naked for their canings, pretending that this is how their fathers punish them. In truth they just want to seduce the headmaster whom they fancy. There isn't any intimacy going on otherwise, so the canings themselves remain formal. I like the idea because it is creative, explaining in a whimsical way why there is full nudity in a school setting. It also takes away the aspect of humiliation. Erotic spankings are another category where full nudity fits well in my opinion. I've recently come across an amazing scene on Pandora's site Dreams Of Spanking about which I'm going to write a post, soon. And nowadays, I can even watch unfair or humiliating scenes involving complete nakedness if I know that the spankee is into such things.

I guess the right mixture is an important aspect for me, though. What I'm feeling uncomfortable with are producers where every single scene includes full frontal nudity. That's true especially for some x/F film producers. Even if there are no close-ups of genitals, it gives me the feeling that it's actually the naked bodies of the women and their private parts which are at least as much the focus of the film as the spankings. Of course there is nothing morally wrong with that, but I'm talking about my own preferences and gut feeling here.

When I watch films that focus extremely on the aspect of (frontal) nudity, the most extreme key phrase that sometimes comes to my mind is "thrashed eye-candy". And since I'm watching films at least partly from a bottom perspective, I can hardly eroticise that. Some F/M clips even provoke worse emotions, the key phrase here is "eye-candy dominatrix bashes naked male sandbag". But this leads to another topic about which I'm going to talk in a separate post.

For now, I would like to hear your opinion! How sexy do you want spanking porn scenarios to be? How much nudity are you looking for? Does it depend on the scenario? Do you seek variety? Or are there conditions which must be fulfilled at all times?