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Shades of Singapore: Sister Sarah Balfour's Memoirs of Judicial Caning in South Africa, Vol. I

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This has to be Balfour's greatest, fully focused magnum opus. Every chapter is one girl after another being paddled, all sorts of girls - rich ones, poor ones, fat ones, well dressed ones, white and black ones, and on and on... straddling the 'horse' and being paddled or birched until she pleads for mercy. And over 300 pages of it! I should warn casual observers that this is probably going to be too much for them to enjoy beyond the first 100 pages, but if you have a prediliction for either corporal punishment or obsessive fetishist pornography, go for it! Considering these Blue Moon titles go in and out of print, you never know when you'll see another Balfour when this edition is gone, and buying it now sure beats rifling through used bookstores for a spine-creased copy.

I'll sum it up this way: Six or seven hours of flippant descriptions of wailing women having their bottoms striped. No affection, no lovemaking, no kissing. No filler, and no pretense.

Sounds good, no?

The author is telling the reader of the opportunities she has had of giving the cane to many deserving bottoms. The psychology behind the punishments are explained as well. I'm more of a fan of the paddle, but these girls are left sobbing more times than not. If you like to read about well deserved punishment of girls, then this is a good book for you!!

This is a long series of accounts of the severe caning of deserving young women and is essential reading for anyone interested in this topic. All the caning is performed by the female author or by other women so it is exclusively F/F. However, the accounts do suffer from repetition.

I find it hilarious how other reviewers use the term "deserving" to make some lame excuse as to why this book rises above other purient S&M books. It's anything but real; it's fiction - the prologue language says as much. Oh, I'm sure the subject acts take place at various S&M gatherings and certain churches, but the title is nothing other than an attention getter for a book about canning and whipping women to the erotic excitement of the purveyors. It also helps to bring in readers who can indulge their self righteous religionist side by checking their baser instincts after they read the title.

For the connoisseur of female corporal punishment, degradation, and humiliation it is a good collection. It will appeal to males and females alike. Women like to see other women beat up and permanently disfigured in a socially accepted ways (just try to wear a swimsuit, any kind, in later life after the inevitable permanent marks left by even a mild canning - which is the purpose of canning - or cover it up from a future partner) just as much as some men do. It's simply the spice of life - power (and permanent branding) over others. "Sister" Balfour is simply nothing other than a person in a long line of Nazis that stretch back to ancient times. Well written with great erotic excitement, hardly "judicial".