This is part of the excellent, steamy, funny and insightful novel “The Tale of the Tawse”
Because that novel’s about to be published, the early drafts have to come off the net. Publishers don’t like competition from free providers.
Once it’s published, the address for buying this will be uploaded here.
I find it extraordinary – the Tawse Tale is funny and interesting and makes me wonder what happened to that girl who couldnt bear a pea under her mattress…
But more extraordinary is that Ms Margaret Dick seemed to disapprove of your question about who buys tawses these days, and intention to use one in an intimate scene…
I mean why the hell else would one buy a tawse nowadays anyway? And was it not far, far more appalling that the long tradition of tawse-making that she comes from were for hitting young children with? Generations of schoolchildren had been thwacked with the tawses she and her family were so proud of making!!!
And who can guarantee that those wielders of tawses in recent and past history were not sexual perverts as well as beaters of children?
Oh really, the dishonesty and hypocrisy of humans never ceases to amaze me.
Well, she went out of her way, after business hours, to supply a tawse to a stranger in need, so she’s okay in my book.
I did think the slightly po-faced presentation about collectors and historical interest, etc,on the website, was kind of puzzling.
But I’ve searched a bit further and found a press release that makes it pretty clear that Ms Dick does know her customers use the tawses in pleasurable pursuits involving adults. Also, she says that if she suspects that the purchaser intends to use the tawse on actual children, she won’t sell to them, so good for her.
I agree that using the things in schools on actual children was disgusting, and it’s amazing that it took so long to get that banned. But Ms Dick isn’t about that. I’d have had an argument with her grandfather, but Margaret Dick’s okay by me.
You just liked saying “Mrs Dick” there, didn’t you?! 🙂
Yeah, there’s that.
Which reminds me that the hero of Puccini’s opera “La Fiancella del Ouest” (Girl of the Golden West) is called “Dick Johnson”. “Hello. The name’s Johnson. Dick Johnson.”