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The worst I've ever seen, August 15, 2007
This review is from: Christian Domestic Discipline Spanking Romance Short Story Collection (Paperback)
As a disclaimer: I know that this book is fiction. It contains erotic spanking stories that include force and discipline done without consent, and the author does not promote non-consensual punishment. Which is why the brutal abuse practiced by her characters, including rape and emotional manipulation, shocks me with its presence. In this review, although I will mention a system of wifely discipline practiced in real marriages, I am NOT holding this book as a standard for such practices; I know it is a fictional book, and I am criticizing it as such.
This book is not your average "spanking" romance; it is not a normal romantic, erotic, or Christian product, though it attempts to be all three. What this book is about is no more or less than men dominating women and beating them into submission, both spiritually and often physically. If women misbehave in this book (which often means, in other words, having brains of their own or not serving their husbands enough) their husbands literally whip them into submission, whether with belts, paddles or hands. There are no human beings in this book: only testi-less men and whimpering women.
Lest you think I exaggerate, I'll give you an example. In one of these tales, a woman, Alyssa, remembers the previous night in which her nineteen-year-old stepdaughter was beaten with a belt by her father. Alyssa is remarking to herself what an impressive change this beating put into her step's behavior and how she is now an obedient daughter. The fact that the heroine is calmly reflecting how her young adult step was beaten like a small child should give you some warning of how sick this book is, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Alyssa now goes swimming by herself in the new pool, inspite of the fact that her husband commanded everyone to refrain from swimming alone. As soon as her husband, Lucas, catches her doing this, he yanks her out of the pool and drags her back to the house, slapping her rear end the whole way and shouting at her that he expects to be obeyed. By the time they reach their bedroom, with him roughly pulling her along and spanking her the whole time, she is crying and timidly calling him "sir" while he continues to shout at her and proceeds to unfasten his belt to beat her with, claiming that she's a bad example to his daughter and she should obey him as well.
The entire book is filled with stories just like this: women "misbehaving" and men punishing them. Inspite of the fact that the women are the ones being beaten, the men are the ones painted as victims. These poor little men are being disrespected by their wives, you see.
Another tale relates a poor neglected husband who is forced to eat take-out food while his wife spends her time volunteering (oh horrors!) at the church. The question of this story is whether this husband will discover marital bliss (i.e, spanking his wife into order) after witnessing a neighbor thus disciplining his own wife. Another tale opens with two young and influential brothers getting married. You know what their sick father gave them as wedding presents? Paddles, for spanking their wives when they fail to fulfill their roles. I can just imagine what such a tyrant would say to his sons in real life: "You know how I've kept your mother in order all these years? Well, now you can do the same with your wives". Oh yes, and there's also a tale that focuses mainly on a man "disciplining" (aka "beating") his rebellious teenage daughters into proper behavior. This is possibly what I find to be the sickest thing of all: it's one thing for a spouse to spank another spouse (if it's done for normal reasons, like sexual pleasure) but spanking a teenage daughter is COMPLETELY inappropriate for whatever reason and, frankly, perverted. That's the gist of this book, though: the big bad females act like bad girls and the big question is always, will the poor victimized men show them the light? Will these bad women be placed at their husband's feet where they belong and rejoice at the "rod" of discipline that saved them??
Allow me to elaborate on the tale "What Dad tried to tell Me", the one about daughter spanking. There are three wicked men in this tale: a father who beats his wife and passes this "tradition" on to his sons, and the sons themselves. One of the sons (now grown with daughters) snaps at his daughters for daring to ask for pants and calls this "unladylike", barks at his wife to apologize and leave the table like a child when she gets mad, beats his wife while she pleads for him to stop and mules pitifully, then brags to his brother about this method and how their dad used to beat his own mother's behind. His brother, who's too weak and stupid to discipline his daughters, decides to beat them instead at the end of the tale like his pathetic sibling.
In the tale "The Wisdom Worker", we find out just how consensual this CDD practice really is. Remember the character Lucas I mentioned earlier? In this story, we get to read about how he first became a dominant s.o.b. The "Wisdom Worker" is a nasty implement used to hit children as hard as possible without showing injury. In the beginning of the story, we're told that Lucas and his wife had a fight. Now, Lucas is pouting because his wife is pouting and secretly thinking to himself that their argument is all her fault and if she doesn't smarten up, their marriage might fail. He then remembers the cruel spanking tool he and his first wife bought for their daughter while she was still a toddler, and finds himself mentally picturing his wife in the child's place. After a few minutes of this childish and sadistic fantasy, he pulls over the car and, out of the blue, pulls his wife's underwear down, forces her against the seat, and begins spanking her brutally, unceasingly, and cruelly until she's beyond uncontrollable tears and utterly broken in spirit. Know what happens after that? She straightens up, sniffles, and leans against him in affection while he smirks to himself that he found the secret to marital bliss. Can you BELIEVE this sicko? He punishes his wife for pouting while doing the same thing himself, blames her for all the problems in their marriage and, rather than talking to her, he beats her out of the blue and later simpers to himself that he's found the secret of marital bliss! Of course the ending of this tale pandered to the ridiculous idea that women like domination and will really admire and thank their husbands for it.
Possibly the worst story is "The Women's Rebellion". In this sick piece, a woman's husband punishes her for daring to march in a feminist rally. When I'd first heard of this story, I thought it was about modern feminists and their husbands simply whining about their new ideals. But in fact, this is a historical tale, about the time when feminism first began. This story's first sick "hero" whips his wife brutally for being in a feminist march. He whips her black and blue, forces her to call him sir and say "you're the boss", "you make the rules", and when it's over he orders her to take off her slip, climb on the bed, and he then rapes her! He climbs on top of her back, ignores her resistance, and holds her arms over her head while he forces sex on her! Later, of course, he cuddles and comforts her as she sobs miserably from the pain he gave her. How sick can this get??
What really broke my heart and lit a rage like no other inside me was this poor heroine's reaction to the abuse. You get all kinds of reactions from the females in these stories to the abuse they endure: most scream for their husbands to stop, some yell threats before the pain becomes unbearable (good for them!), and that annoying Lacie Jane (in the story of the same name) dances around yipping like a child as her husband whips her. In this story, though, the heroine is beaten from the beginning. In the opening of the tale, she's in prison from the feminist rally curled up in a ball and terrified to the point of vomiting of what her horrid husband will do to her. Then, from the moment her husband picks her up at the prison to the end of her horrid punishment, she hangs her head and doesn't speak above a whisper. She doesn't even scream that much during the whipping; she mostly speaks in a soft tone, calling her pathetic man "sir" and pleading for him to have mercy and please not whip her anymore. If this doesn't awaken rage in your heart, if you don't crumble at the description of a woman whispering pleas for mercy while her husband whips her brutally and then rapes her anally, you don't have a heart. Neither did this b*stard of a man; it was confirmed in the book that the anul sex was, indeed, part of her punishment (in case you had any doubt) and it goes into vivid detail about how she panicked and struggled against his entrance of her body and how he easily overcame her. During the rape, she turns her head and looks up at him (difficult to do since he has the front of her body pressed against the bed) and pleads again in a whisper for him to have mercy, saying how sorry she is. His response? He looks at her misery-filled face and says, "You shamed me in public; in front of hundreds you denounced my authority. Don't you think you deserve whatever I give to you now?" In response to this heartless and demonically tyrannical reply, the poor woman, already convinced she's an evil person, crumbles further and weeps in the belief that she's sinned beyond imagining.
Naturally, all the other wicked wives are punished as well. Their loving and intelligent husbands heal their marriages by beating them, telling them they will respect and obey, and threatening them with worse if they ever dare ask their husbands to cook dinner again. Of course, their "Christian" behavior is clear the whole time: when one of the wives rightfully protests that such punishment isn't fair because he's bigger...
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Will someone arrest this woman's husband, please?, January 8, 2011
This review is from: Christian Domestic Discipline Spanking Romance Short Story Collection (Paperback)
He's brainwashed her, pure and simple, into thinking abuse is acceptable. The book shows her mental breakdown and lack of self and is probably almost as painful to witness in text as her lifestyle was in its contribution to this fiction.
A brief look into this insane and abusive lifestyle:
There is no safety word.
No doesn't mean No.
The act of lovemaking is also used as punishment, something anywhere else is called "Rape"
Children are encouraged to witness the beating of their mother.
She gets beat even if she hasn't done anything -- something they call "Maintenance.
It's not a lifestyle that could ever be considered legal outside "religious" protection... and honestly, I would be afraid to have this in my permanent library. Please don't buy this book if you have impressionable children who may accidentally read it.
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