Thursday, 31 January 2013

Dr Petrov's Special Prescription (M/m)

Have  completed two new stories of the F/M and F/m variety but delaying blogging until I have checked them. Both are sequels to other new stories, recently posted. The Reluctant Schoolboy (F/M) follows the boy in Woman in the Window thirty years on. More ambitiously, The Boston Landlady in London (F/m), gives first person narrative to a black character I grew to love in The Boston Landlady first time round. Must be my deep buried hankering to be dealt with by such a woman. Whilst you await I thought it was appropriate to post this one. First posted to malespank some years ago and pure M/m with a strong medical bent. Medical examinations of a certain kind thrill almost as much as being whacked on the bare bum. The boy in this gets both.

Dr Petrov’s Special Prescription

I recently saw a small article on the BBC teletext news service. It stated that Russian scientists had concluded that caning the buttocks in cases of depression was more effective than other methods of treatment. Sixty strokes produced the most efficacious result.  I was intrigued, and the following is the result of my idle imaginings. - Alfred Roy

 
Friday 11th 3.00 p.m.

I am not sure how I got into this. I sometimes think I might be going mad. I don’t think most who know me would agree with that comment but if they had any idea where I was going at six o’clock and what was going to happen to me, they might change their opinion. Six o’clock. Three hours. In three hours time I shall keep my appointment with Dr Petrov and….No, I am not going to think about it. I am not going to dwell on any of the details. He outlined them at the time, in his consulting room last week, but I am not going to think about it. It is just a doctor’s appointment. What is so special about that Robbie? Lot’s of people go to the doctors, every day. Yes, but they go for prescriptions, for re-assurance, for comfort. They don’t go there to get caned. Yes, that’s what I said. To get caned. On the National Health Service. At six o’clock this afternoon. Three hours. And I don’t have any choice. My parents have agreed. Everything else has been tried and they are desperate to release the gloom and misery which surrounds me. So they agreed and so did I. As I said, I sometimes think I must be going mad.

 
3.30 p.m.

Tuesday. That was when it was. We had an appointment to see Dr Petrov at four o’clock last week. Tuesday afternoon. We being me and my parents. I had seen him before, a couple of days after I downed my dad’s whisky and my mum’s pills. A lethal combination. Except it wasn’t. I only succeeded in making myself sick. But it scared my parents and two days in hospital was followed by a long consultation with Dr Petrov. He studied my notes, asked me a lot of questions, and referred me for psychotherapy. Six sessions of psychobabble achieved nothing. The only thing the therapist and me agreed on was that I was seventeen, anxious, and miserable. After the six sessions she gave up and referred me back to Dr Petrov. And he arranged an appointment for me. With my parents. Last Tuesday.


4.00 p.m.

He was very formal. He shook my parents by the hand and all three of us sat down opposite his vast desk, reflecting his importance. In spite of his heavy Russian appearance and his name, Dr Alexander Petrov, the bearded and heavily built man spoke perfect English. We all sat in dutiful silence as he outlined the salient points of my case. Apparently I was, am, a classic example of a young man finding it difficult to cope with the various pressures of approaching manhood. Exams, sexuality, confusion, social pressures all combine to disturb the young mind. Most come through it unscathed but a few succumb to the enormity of the task of growing up. They go off the rails in various ways and a small number, of which I am one, opt for an early exit from life’s pressures. He did not think that my attempt to do away with myself was serious but it nevertheless indicated a desperate state of mind. I listened with passive indifference. But if I cared little about myself my parents took a different view and they hung, pathetically, on every perfectly elaborated word. They were clearly in awe of this man. It has just gone four o’clock. Two hours. In two hours I have my first appointment. And it is my parents’ fault.


4.20 p.m.

I reckon it was his carnation that did it. Sitting in his buttonhole it smacked of Harley Street. And you don’t argue with Harley Street opinions. So they didn’t. They listened to what he had to say and they agreed. As I am not yet eighteen they had to sign the forms. Forms that stated that they, on my behalf, consented to the course of action determined as most efficacious to my case. Dr Petrov outlined the possibilities. Tablets, electric convulsive therapy, incarceration. And the Russian system. And it was the last that he most favoured. It was not suitable for everyone but had been shown to work in regard to young men with my particular problems. It was devised by German scientists in the nineteenth century and had recently been employed to great effect in institutions in Moscow and Petersburg. Dr Petrov had observed its curative aspects. It was unorthodox but it worked. With my parents permission he intended to employ the method with me. So they signed the forms. They did not even ask what it was. He said it was not in any way dangerous and they trusted him. He said that in consideration of my sensibilities he would outline the details of the Russian system to me after my parents had left. It would be a course of six sessions and he had confidence that it would assist in getting my life back to an even keel. My parents left and Dr Petrov filled in the details. Deep down, somewhere, my passive indifference registered a small note of alarm.

 
4.55 p.m.

Sixty five minutes. In sixty five minutes I shall be sitting in the sixth floor large waiting room of a prestigious hospital awaiting the sound of a buzzer which will summon me to Dr Alexander Petrov’s impressive consulting rooms. And then what happens doesn’t bear thinking about. Except I am thinking about it. All the time. I have thought of little else since last week. He had waited for my parents to depart and, closing the door, sat down again and eyed me cautiously. I needed to understand that the course of treatment he proposed was far better than the alternatives. I might not think so during its administration, but the results in Russia and Germany were impressive. And then he gave me another form to sign. He didn’t need to as my parents had already given their consent. But this form was more explicit. If I signed the form it would indicate my understanding of what was proposed. He pushed the large pink form across his desk and, fingering his carnation, patiently waited while I read it. I didn’t take it all in, much of it was medical mumbo-jumbo to me, but paragraph seven said all I needed to know. Six sessions of sixty strokes of a cane at weekly intervals. I said he must be joking. He said he never joked about such serious matters. I asked him a couple of questions and, with a confidence I did not feel, signed the form. As I said, I sometimes think I am going mad.

 
5.15 p.m.

I need to be going soon. The hospital is a good fifteen minutes walk and I need to be on time. For the preliminaries. I asked Dr Petrov what was involved and he calmly and gently outlined what was to happen. In his perfect English accent this heavily bearded Russian doctor filled in details that I both desperately desired to know, and simultaneously feared. The Special Remedial Therapy was always carried out on Friday evenings in a private room annexed to Dr Petrov’s consulting room. Prior to the administering of the therapy one of his assistants would carry out a full examination to ensure that the recipient could safely endure its application. The examination took about fifteen minutes and, subject to a satisfactory result, the therapy was administered immediately following. In Dr Petrov’s opinion, supported by much research, the most propitious approach was three separate ‘twenty stroke’ administrations at five minute intervals. The whole procedure, including examination, took about forty five minutes and the patient was ready to go home within an hour. And yes, he personally carried out the initial administration of the therapy. He showed no emotion in releasing all the information. He could have been telling me to take some pills, three times a day after meals. My stomach churned and my head filled with subsidiary questions. But a desperation to get well, coupled with the passive gloom which had pervaded my being for weeks had left me exhausted. I shook his hand and left. Until a week the following Friday.


5.35 p.m.

And those ten days have now passed and, in that time, I have thought of little except that private interview and all its attendant implications. There were so many questions I should have asked. How will I be caned? Will it hurt? What happens if I stop the treatment or don’t turn up? What happens if I take one of his cane strokes and then walk out? Should I tell my parents? All these questions, and others, have played on my mind over the last ten days. Will I scream? Will I disgrace myself? Will I find it exciting? The last question disturbed me the most. I spent some time in the local library earlier in the week searching their medical reference books and the internet for information on the Russian system. Perhaps I didn’t search the right books or ask the right questions but they were little help. And there was no way I was going to enquire at the information desk. ‘Excuse me, my name is Robbie Henderson and I am being caned for depression next week. Do you have any details?’ No, I had to search for myself, however incompetently. And in my incompetence I stumbled on a small book on dealing with depression. It didn’t look promising and the only attraction was its obviously Russian author. Most of it was gobble-de-gook to me but it did have an interesting glossary on a variety of approaches. Most had special names, usually attributed to the instigator of the particular method with, in brackets, a pithy description. Buried half way down the glossary, one very foreign phrase was followed by the words ‘Beating on the Buttocks’. My stomach turned over and I read the brief outline avidly and, having absorbed the few descriptive words, read it again. It didn’t say much, merely a summation of its merits and drawbacks. It was the last sentence which gripped in my throat. ‘Not unknown for some, especially males, to become visibly excited by its application and, therefore, rarely applied in Western societies.’ I returned the book to the shelves and silently thanked my decision to tell my parents nothing. I told them I did not understand what was planned. But I do know, or at least I know the important bits. The clock tells me I need to go.


11.15 p.m.

It’s not easy writing this. I tried a couple of hours ago but it is hard to concentrate. It is also not easy to sit down comfortably. But I need to get my thoughts in order. My parents have gone to bed. They waited patiently all evening for me to say something but eventually gave up. They have become used to my silences over the last few weeks and, tonight, silence was all they were going to get. I left the hospital just after seven o’clock and didn’t arrive home until nearly nine. I needed those two hours walking the town to regain some visible composure. My experience had terrified, excited, elated, hurt, confused and intrigued in equal proportions. I still feel a pervading gloom but briefly, in that room and in the park, my mind seemed to clear. The gloom has returned but as Dr Petrov said, after I got dressed, this was only the first session. And by the time I arrived home I knew, in the silence, that I would be going back.


11.50 p.m.

I arrived at the hospital at just after six o’clock and took the lift to the sixth floor. To say I was nervous would be an understatement. I was sweating profusely and my agitation must have been obvious to anyone who saw me. There was no one in the waiting room and, just for a moment, I irrationally thought that I must have the wrong day. I sat down on the first available chair and waited. I had been there a couple of minutes when a young man in a white coat came out of a small side room and introduced himself. His name was Dr Abele and, as he smiled reassuringly, his gleaming white teeth contrasted pleasingly with his coal black face. He said that as this was my first session Dr Petrov wished to see me for a few minutes before the commencement of the proceedings. Afterwards I was to come to his consulting room for examination and preparation. He spoke very formally but with a manner which suggested prosaic routine. Seeing my concern he smiled again and told me not to worry. The treatment was well established and would help me with my problems. And then he led me to Dr Petrov’s large consulting room and departed. Dr Petrov was seated at his desk, making notes in the large open book placed before him. He didn’t say anything for a few moments and, as I studiously waited in silence, I registered the large carnation in his buttonhole. It was the same colour as the one from the previous week. He closed the book, raised his head to look at me and bid me to sit down. I was not there long but in the few minutes in his presence I learnt all I needed to know. I never said a word but in a few precise sentences, delivered in his disconcertingly perfect English, Dr Petrov calmly elaborated the procedures. If I had any illusions regarding what was to happen to me, they were instantly dispelled. After my examination I was to be taken to his Remedial Treatment Room. In the interest of safety I would be secured to a specially designed trestle, he did not say how, and positioned for the treatment. I need have no fears, the trestle was perfectly comfortable and well designed for its purpose, and the only discomfort would be from a cane striking my buttocks. That was the essence of the treatment and would be applied, in three doses of increasing severity, to that part of my person designed for such a purpose. The room was sound proofed and it did not matter if I cried out during the administration. Indeed in the opinion of himself and many of his colleagues, such vocal release was to be welcomed. Dr Abele would be present to assist in the preparation and to observe and monitor any detrimental effects that may necessitate a curtailing of the treatment. But, and here he paused choosing his words even more carefully, in the interests of maximum effect and benefit it would be necessary to apply the treatment to my naked buttocks. Only maximum, uninhibited, contact could release the curative chemicals in my brain. I need not be embarrassed, Dr Abele and he were very experienced in such matters. He wished me well for the first of my six sessions and instructed me to report to his colleague for my preparation. He would see me in the Therapy room in ten minutes. Through all the minute and explicit details his voice never varied from its even and mellifluous flow and, listening to it all, I never said a single word. The fog surrounding my head never lifted and half formed responses died before they reached my lips. But as I left I sensed, deep inside me, a cold shaft of unknowing fear.


Saturday 12th 12.15 a.m.

It has gone midnight. I need to go to bed. It has been a long and tiring day and six hours ago I suffered something I never thought possible. My parents are asleep but, if they wake up and see me writing this they may wish to view it. I couldn’t cope with that. Besides I have taken my sleeping pill and the mind won’t function for much longer. But there is so much I need to get down on paper before sleep overtakes me. I don’t know how I walked from Dr Petrov’s consulting room to the smaller room of Dr Abele. My legs had turned to jelly and I was shaking all over. And the agitated sweating which enveloped me when I arrived had returned with added zest. It would not have surprised me if I had not passed out. But inner fear had created an alien alertness in my usual passivity. The vying sensations allowed me to reach Dr Abele’s consulting room without mishap. I knocked on the door, tentatively, and hearing a strong and confident call to enter, my stomach lurched again. If Dr Abele had rhythms of speech which mirrored his superior, the words he issued were much more relaxed. He may have formally asked me to strip to my underpants but, in all other respects, he did his best to put me at my ease. As I removed my shoes and socks and, more reluctantly, my jeans and top, he placed his stethoscope in his ears and told me to relax. It is no big thing he said, and it will help my recuperation. The gleaming white teeth flashed a friendly smile and he checked my heart and lungs. All in order he said and, smiling again, he said ‘and now for the important bits.’ I was still puzzling as to what he meant by this when his large black hands whipped down my underpants to my thighs and cupped my testicles. I looked away and, as requested, obeyed his instruction to cough. He made me do it twice. I have never known why doctors make you do this and usually found it embarrassing. But the large and rough hands of Dr Abele were not unpleasant. And then he told me to turn round. I did so with unnecessary alacrity. My face was flushed and his shining black one was too close for comfort. It was only when I had completely turned that I realised that my underpants were still down my thighs. I made to pull them up and Dr Abele laughed. ‘Let the dog see the rabbit’ he said and laughed again at his delight at mastering an English idiom. And as he laughed he pulled my underpants down again. His fingers pressed the flesh of my buttocks and, ordering me to bend forward, he briefly examined the area in between. Satisfied, he pulled up my pants and expressed the professional view that I could have been designed for the Russian treatment. ‘You, Master Henderson, have a magnificent set of buttocks. They will take much pleasure from Dr Petrov’s cane.’ And then he smiled again and, pointing me in the direction of the door, gave my bottom an unexpectedly sharp and satisfying slap. I flinched and reflected that the small and friendly sting emanated the only indication of an irregular approach to a very formal and professional examination. Clothed only in my underpants I made my way to Dr Petrov’s Special Remedial Therapy Room.

 
9.45 a.m.

I have just had breakfast and re-read all my notes. My parents have gone to do the shopping and, before they left, asked me if I wanted anything special for the weekend. I nearly said only Dr Abele, but they would not understand. They would be surprised that I had said anything, the breakfast had been conducted in total silence, and shocked at my desire. But they had not been there. They had not walked from his examination room dressed only in underpants and sporting a small tumescence that all consuming depressive thoughts had rendered obsolete for many weeks. But those rough hands and sparkling black smile had triggered unexpected wants. As I walked to Dr Petrov’s room I feared the prospect of a prescribed treatment and reflected on momentary stirrings. I resolved that through all sixty strokes of my therapy I would think only of Dr Abele and his unaffected charm. That resolve did not last for very long. Within a few minutes a vicious sting in my backside was to dispel all other thoughts. And as I entered the room I saw the trestle across which I was to be fastened. It was a padded horizontal beam, supported at each end by inverted ‘v-shaped’ wooden legs which raised the beam about four feet from the floor. Parallel to the padded beam, about a foot from the floor, two wooden struts joined the front and rear legs of the support. In the centre of each wooden strut was a pair of what I can only describe as leather handcuffs. These were the securing devices which Dr Petrov had referred to. I was absorbing all these details when I registered the doctor standing in the corner of the room. He had taken off his coat and the shirt sleeve of his right arm had been rolled up to the elbow. My first thought was that, minus his carnation, he no longer suggested a Harley Street consultant. My second thought, immediately following, was that his right arm had no need of flowers for what was about to follow. The blood drained from me and the wobbly legs that had walked to Dr Abele’s examination returned with disconcerting venom. Dr Petrov smiled and uttered the only verbal comment he was to make for the next twenty five minutes. ‘Dr Abele will prepare you Robbie. Your first session will soon be over. And make all the noise you want, the room is soundproofed.’ As he said this Dr Abele closed the door and, touching my shoulder, led me to the trestle. A wave of enervating passivity washed over me.

 
11.00 a.m.

I have been for a shower and, as I dried myself, I saw in the mirror the results of Dr Petrov’s first session. As I studied the lines across my backside I vividly recalled how they had got there. I did not struggle, I did not fight. I did not think of the impending pain. Like a man going to execution I allowed the medical experts to do with me as they wished. My mind, my whole being, was empty of any emotion. Dr Abele took me to the trestle and bent me over the centre of the beam. Dr Petrov was right, it was not uncomfortable. The leather beam was thickly padded and my stomach pleasantly rested against the cold and soft support. Dr Abele moved to the front of the trestle and pulled me over so that my feet dangled above the floor. He did this so that he could fix my hands to the wooden strut. I did not resist. When he had done this he moved behind and fixed my dangling feet to the centre of the strut at the rear. My legs and arms were now pinioned tightly, and closely, together. I suddenly felt very vulnerable and the sensation was increased when he tied a small leather strap around my knees. I could not move and, more importantly, the dexterous fixing of the various straps held my backside in a pronounced position it could not escape from. I tentatively experimented with preliminary wriggling, but nothing moved. I was fixed and ready. And Dr Abele clearly agreed. He ruffled my hair, whispered a couple of words of re-assurance, and completed the procedure. Large black fingers inserted themselves into the waistband of my cotton underpants and, in one deft movement, they joined the straps at my knees. It was in that moment, a moment when cool air hit my naked bottom and a similar sensation encased my genitals, I knew I was going to be caned. And in that moment I became very afraid. Please God that it does not hurt and please God that I do not get excited. Nothing happened for about ten seconds and then, lifting my head, I saw Dr Petrov walking towards me. And for the first time since I had entered that room I saw the cane. It was yellow and shiny, and fairly thick and Dr Petrov held it like an expert. It could cause a considerable amount of distress.

 
3.45 p.m.

The last piece of this account has caused me even more distress than I imagined. I wrote the above straight after taking my shower. I had dried myself but had not bothered to get dressed and sitting, wrapped in a towel, in the conservatory I continued the overwhelming urge to get all on paper. I was so absorbed I didn’t realise my parents had returned from the weekend shopping. They were in the conservatory before I knew they were there. In my confusion I dropped my papers and rising to gather them up, my towel slipped away from me. It wouldn’t normally matter. I like being naked, always have, and my parents accepted it as part of my complex personality. But this was different. They only got a fleeting glimpse of my backside before I covered myself up, but that glimpse was enough. They both fell silent and I picked up the papers and went to my room. That was three hours ago. I still haven’t dressed. I discarded the towel and for two hours lay, face down, on my bed willing my father to come up and have a look. Come on, come and have a proper look at your son’s behind. You did this, or at least you signed for it. But I know he will not come. He will not come and see the marks of Dr Petrov’s cane. But he knows they are there. All sixty of them. And when the first stroke hit my buttocks I had gasped, more in surprise than pain, and endured a sensation that for seventeen years I had avoided. Dr Petrov had moved behind me and I was conscious that he was standing on my left. Dr Abele had moved to my right and I could just see him out of the corner of my eye. He smiled gently at me and, as he did so, I felt the light cold touch of smooth wood on my rear. Dr Petrov’s cane was readying itself and three impatient light taps registered in my brain. And then, suddenly, it moved away and I held my breath. For a second all was still and then, a slight rush, and the cane landed behind me with a sharp thwack. It stung and instantly left a slight burning line across my bottom. I wriggled and twitched my bottom in protest. But it had not hurt too much and the slight sting was already fading when Dr Petrov hit me again. Again I sensed the force was not hard but this second sting was added to the fading sensation of the first and the two combined were increasing my discomfort. I wriggled again and tried to reduce my bottom to a smaller size. The two lightly stinging strokes had made me conscious that my bottom was not only bare but it was raised high in the air, at least two feet above me. It made for an easy target and over the next couple of minutes Dr Petrov accurately found it eighteen more times. By the tenth stroke I was beginning to cope with it. The cumulative effect of the stinging strokes made me wriggle and emit the occasional yelp but the effect was not unpleasant. The warming sting in my bottom, reinforced by the remaining strokes, was releasing the anguish in my brain. I could not see below the beam but I sensed stiffening in my penis. Dr Petrov completed the last few strokes and I fervently prayed that neither he nor Dr Abele had observed my physical change.

 
4.30 p.m.

Dr Abele did know. I wasn’t sure at the time but thinking about it now I do not think there is any doubt. While Dr Petrov took a short break he checked my pulse and breathing. And then he put his hands on both sides of my thighs and shifted me back into a comfortable position on the beam. I had done a lot of wriggling and he wanted to ensure that my bottom was correctly aligned for session two. And as he did so he said ‘I trust your below bits are comfortable, Robbie.’ I said nothing. The tip of my penis was pressing on the underside of the beam and his large black hands on my thighs did nothing to subdue it. Dr Petrov returned and picked up the cane that had caused me some discomfort and, as Dr Abele dutifully stepped aside, proceeded to give me the second set of twenty strokes. It was when the first stroke reached my bottom that I remembered him saying something a long time ago, or so it seemed, about ‘increasing severity’. I saw, or should I say felt, what he meant. I issued a loud yelp. The first stroke of the cane across my bottom seemed to carry the strength of the previous twenty. If I thought, or hoped, that it was a temporary aberration whilst he found his rhythm the second stroke dispelled any illusion. It stung like hell and a burning line of fire hit me in places I did not know I had. I howled and twisted and begged him to go easy on me. By the time he had given me the first five I could feel an uncontrollable throbbing in my rear. And the throbbing and burning increased as stroke after stroke hit my cheeks with increasing venom. By the time the twentieth stroke had landed across my upturned bottom, inducing vicious stinging sensations which cried for relief, I had lost both my composure and my erection. As the tears welled and involuntarily flowed, the hardening below shrank in painful contrition. The intense throbbing in my rear demanded all my attention. And I still had twenty strokes to come. As Dr Abele checked my pulse and breathing a second time, Dr Petrov walked over to a small table in the corner and put down the smooth and painful yellow cane. He took a small sip of water and, as he did so, I noticed for the first time a dark, thin, red cane next to the one he had just put down. I was so shocked at the enormity of this discovery that I barely registered the touch of two large hands adjusting the position of my naked cheeks. But Dr Abele was nothing if not considerate. He gave my right buttock a gentle slap and whispered that there were only twenty more to go. But it was what he said next that sent the greatest shiver down my spine and elsewhere. ‘Do not be afraid to scream’ he said, ‘These are going to hurt.’

 
11.00 p.m.

My father finally came into my room at seven o’clock. I had dressed and gone down for the evening meal. The meal was conducted in almost total silence, just the odd ‘please’ or ‘thank you’ in response to enquiries regarding individual servings. I finished my meal and went back to my room. Ten minutes later my father came in. He was polite, he always is. He knocked on my bedroom door and waited until I answered. When I was fourteen he almost caught me masturbating and had clearly vowed that he would not risk a repeat of that embarrassment. I was lying on the bed dressed in my jeans and jumper. He stood by the door looking at me for a good two minutes before he spoke. ‘May I see?’ was all he said. I looked at him and, dropping my eyes, rose from the bed. I turned my back to him and undid my jeans. I pushed them down to my knees and lifted my jumper and waited. He hesitated, unsure of what to do. Realising that I was not going to assist him in any way he moved towards me and placed his hands on my underpants. I held my breath. He slowly peeled my underpants down below my buttocks and gazed at my exposed flesh. He sighed and, after a few seconds, pulled them up and said he had seen enough. I have no doubt he had. I had counted at least twenty five clear and vivid stripes in the bathroom mirror. Most were a deep or pale red but a couple, stretching to the edge of my thighs, hinted at touches of purple. They did not make for a pretty sight. He said he was sorry, he had no idea. I said nothing. I pulled up my jeans and, as he left the room, dropped down on my bed.

 
Sunday 13th 11.30 a.m.

Dr Petrov picked up the redwood cane and moved slowly towards me. I was trembling. The second twenty strokes had caused me considerable pain and I doubted if I could cope with any guaranteed to make me scream. My whole being was alive with a variety of sensations. My head buzzed with bewildering thoughts, my clamped hands and legs cried out for release and, in between, my naked bottom mocked my helplessness. It stood proud and high and begged and pleaded for the kiss of an unsparing rod. It said beat me, thrash me, crash the stiff and unrelenting stick across me. I am waiting, I am yours. My mind said no, ignore it, be blind to its message. But words and thoughts cannot allay pictures. And my bottom, my bare flesh, was so displayed as to defy any other conclusion. It had to be caned. It begged to be caned. And if, when that cane set out on its destiny, the boy screamed then so be it. As the rigid cane made its heavenly contact with the beckoning curves those who did not scream would sigh in appreciation. I closed my eyes and cried and when the cane touched my rear for the first time I cried again. And then I screamed. I screamed and howled. Screamed and howled as I had never done before. And I wriggled and twisted and turned and did everything I possibly could to avoid the lash of a vicious cane which relentlessly found its mark. Oh please God I said. Please God. No more. Please. Oh my bum, my bum. Oh please. No more please. No more. Aagh. It hurts. Oh God. I’m on fire. Let me up. Kill me. Anything. Not my bum. No more. Aaagh. My bum. My bum. My poor bum. But it did no good. Dr Petrov was a master tactician and the cane he had saved for the last attacked me with a relish and fire beyond my imagination. And as each stroke across my naked cheeks induced a searing fire that screamed for relief, I begged and pleaded and promised favours I would never be able to deliver. By the time the last stroke fell across my backside I had been reduced to a sobbing and pleading mess, conscious only of a frightening and stinging throbbing in my bottom that only a year of paradise would cure. I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed and continued pleading for my poor ravaged bum long after the cane had been returned to the table. And for ten minutes Dr’s Petrov and Abele left me to my painful misery. When Dr Abele returned and released me, I fell into his arms and sobbed again. My parents are at church as I write this. It seems appropriate.


5.00 p.m.

Dr Abele is very kind. He undid the straps and, after comforting me, took me to his consulting room. I lay face down on his couch and, after lowering the pants he had considerately raised when he took me off the trestle, he rubbed some special ointment into my buttocks. The slight cold sting contrasted with the savage throbbing which still engulfed my rear. I doubted if I would ever recover and said so. He laughed and said that by next Friday only faint markings would remain. A boy’s bottom has great powers of recovery. And it was all for my own good. I had released many recuperative chemicals. I rose and winced as I pulled my pants over my hardened cheeks. I still had slight uncontrollable sobs and, getting dressed, I said I doubted if I would be coming again. The pain of the last twenty strokes was unbearable. He looked at me seriously and said I should reconsider. I needed this therapy and should suffer the temporary discomfort for the long term gain. Besides, next week, he got to cane me. Dr Petrov rarely did all the sessions. And this dog, he said, looked forward to having his own go at the rabbit. And then he laughed again and showed me another glimpse of those perfect white teeth, I rubbed my bottom, desperate to ease the throb, and left. It was seven o’clock.

 
Thursday 17th 3.30 p.m.

My father asked me this morning if I was going to keep my Friday evening appointment at the hospital. I said I was. The pain had gone and the marks were healing. I had been checking each day and, surprisingly, within a few days only faint lines remained. Dr Abele had said that the canes were well chosen, intended to sting not maim. It did not seem so at the time, especially the last twenty, but my bottom was the evidence. I didn’t say any of this to my father. I just said I would go. It was what he wanted. He signed the form. I could see by the expression on his face that these last remarks pained him deeply. He visibly winced. And then he told me he had written to Dr Petrov questioning the treatment. He did not wish to interfere but, given the unorthodox approach, enquired as to whether there were any alternatives. The state of my bottom had caused much distress to him and my mother. I said nothing. He would not understand. He would not understand that I was not only prepared to go for my second session but, in some peculiar way, I was actually welcoming it.

 
Friday 18th 11.15 p.m.

I was very nervous when I arrived at the sixth floor of the hospital. I knew what was going to happen but removing the fear of the unknown had not lessened my agitation. As the hours passed today the memories of the previous week came flooding back. My only comfort was that Dr Abele had said that he would be carrying out the treatment and I told myself that his slighter frame could not possibly carry the punch of Dr Petrov. In my agitation I had arrived early and the hospital clock showed 5.50 p.m. when I entered the building. If I relaxed a little as the lift made its way to the sixth floor my distress levels increased when I entered the waiting room. A young Chinese woman, about thirty or so, came over to me and confirming my name said that Dr Abele was waiting for me. She took me in to his consulting room and, after she left, Dr Abele informed me that Dr Petrov was unavailable and that Dr Choo would be his assistant for the second session. My legs buckled. I asked the obvious question and Dr Abele confirmed that the young Chinese woman was Dr Choo. And then he laughed and told me to get undressed. ‘She is a doctor, Robbie. There is no need to be embarrassed.’, and as I removed my clothes he added ‘You have nothing she has not seen many times.’ That may be so but, standing in only my underpants, I was glad he had not handed my preliminary examination to her. Perhaps the visible effects of my ordeal would not have occurred with Dr Choo but, if it had, my embarrassment would have been trebled. Dr Abele put his stethoscope to his ears and did all the usual checks and then looked down at my bulging front. He didn’t say anything, he just slipped the pants down to my thighs and, lightly gripping my testicles, asked for the obligatory cough. He turned me round but, surprisingly, did not examine my bottom. He merely looked at it and registered approval. As I pulled up my pants he walked over to the desk and tapped a few notes into his computer. He then said he was ready and started to walk to the treatment room. We were halfway across the large waiting room when he spoke again. ‘Don’t worry about these erections, Robbie. They are an occupational hazard to Doctors. You would be surprised at the number I have seen.’ And then he laughed and said ‘And now let us continue our interesting route to the chemicals in your brain.’ In spite of everything, especially what was to come, I like Dr Abele.


Saturday 19th 1.35 a.m.

I cannot sleep. I have tried but I cannot get this afternoon’s session out of my mind. It had the desired effect inasmuch as, for a short time, it cleared my head and lifted my spirits. In spite of the pain there is no doubt that caning my bottom brings blessed, temporary, relief. No wonder Dr Petrov decided I was an ideal subject for his unorthodox therapy. But it is more than that. It is beginning to turn me on. That small book was right. What did it say? ‘Not unknown for some, especially males, to become visibly excited by its application.’ That was certainly true in my case. I carried my erection from Dr Abele’s consulting room to the padded beam of the trestle and if those sixty strokes of the cane subdued its expectancy, it never totally expunged it. As I cried in anguish, internal juices continued to churn. Everything in that room conspired to unnerve and disturb my emotions. The sweet Chinese woman doctor took my hand and led me to the trestle. As the previous week, when Dr Abele carried out the preliminaries, she gently pushed me over it and fixed my hands to the front wooden strut. With smiling and silent efficiency she moved behind me, pressed my legs closely together, and fixed my feet to the rear strut. Satisfied, she put her hands on my bending thighs and gently lifted my bottom further over the beam. ‘Bottom up, Mr Henderson.’, accompanied her slight shifting of my position. Then she fixed the restraining strap around my knees and pulled tightly, ensuring that no gaps split my flesh from the waist down. Then she placed her hands in the waist of my underpants and pulled them down. Meeting a frontal obstruction she calmly, and efficiently, put her hand under the beam and pulled my pants down from the front. Her ‘We must let the rabbit see the dog, Mr Henderson.’, was followed by a reassuring smile. I didn’t enlighten her on her mixing of Dr Abele’s metaphor. I was mortified. This woman doctor had bared my bum and must have been aware of my erect state. And she must have known it was nothing to do with her. It was all about Dr Abele and his cane and, as if on cue, he picked it up from the table and walked over to me. He had taken off his white coat and rolled up his shirt sleeve. The well muscled shiny black arm looked strong and firm. I inwardly shuddered and below me my penis gave an involuntary twitch. And it gave a couple more as he spoke. I may have been feeling sick inside, I may have been upturned over the beam with my naked backside raised high in the air, and I may have remembered the devastating stings from the previous week, but it did not deflect the inner exciting fear. And as Dr Abele delivered his formal outline of the procedure he intended to adopt I listened to his modulated tones and held my breath. ‘I prefer to give all sixty strokes in one period, Robbie. They will be at three levels of intensity, as last week, but they will be continuous. I will only stop if Dr Choo, who will monitor the progress, considers it preferable to do so. So, as they say, let us get to the bottom of your problem.’ He laughed at his own weak joke and stepped behind me. I felt the cane touch, and gently tap, my bottom. ‘It will help your therapy, Robbie, if you cry out whenever you feel the need to do so. So, when you are ready.’ And with that he whacked the cane across the centre of my backside and, as I issued a surprised gasp and howl, I registered that the first stroke on my bum probably equalled number forty five from the absent Dr Petrov. I was still considering the implications of this when the second searing sting landed in exactly the same place. My bottom had started an uncontrollable throbbing and I had fifty eight cuts to come. I was rapidly going off Dr Abele.

 
4.15 a.m.

I still cannot sleep and an attempt at relief an hour ago has not diminished my inner turmoil. My body is exhausted but my mind, far from being calm, is fretful from my imaginings. After the first few strokes Dr Abele had eased off and the next twenty or thirty were delivered at an even tempo and severity. I still flinched every time the cane contacted with my bottom but the cumulative effect was not unpleasant. I could feel myself beginning to relax and almost welcoming the stinging strokes. As Dr Abele had said, it was an interesting route to the chemicals in my brain. The pain in my bottom was engulfing and swamping my negativity and the warm glow produced, spread imperceptibly through my body. And, helplessly tied and bent, it relieved me of any responsibility for my responses. And then Dr Abele did two things which triggered increased sensation. Two sharper thwacks to my backside, followed by a silence, indicated that he had come to the end of the first part of my caning. I reckoned I had taken about forty so had a final twenty to come. He crossed to the table in front of me and replaced the cane he had used with the red one which had caused me so much pain the previous week. I felt a surge of apprehension. He had proved he was no slouch when it came to thrashing a bottom, and the redwood cane had its own special, penetrating, sting. He walked towards me as Dr Choo was readjusting my position. She put her hands either side of my waist and gently shifted me a couple of inches along the beam. Then putting her hands under my arms she inched me forward by the same couple of inches. Finally she placed her hands on the edge of each of my cheeks and lifted slightly. Satisfied that all was presented as desired she gave an unnecessary push down on my pants and pronounced that I was ready for the final part of my treatment. Dr Abele moved behind me and, as he did so, he reached under the beam and placed his hand around my erection. He didn’t do so in any sexual manner. It was merely a medical observation of the patient’s state. But when his fingers touched my penis, albeit only for a fleeting second, a surge of expectancy shot through me. The offending part notched another degree of hardness in fruitless anticipation. I gasped for breath and waited. And then the cane, the feared redwood, tapped my bottom and Dr Abele readied himself for the final onslaught. ‘Make a note Dr Choo, that the patient maintained a state of arousal during the application of the first forty strokes of the No 2 regulation cane. I am using regulation cane No 4 for the final twenty strokes. We will need to check his arousal state again, after its completion.’ Dr Choo didn’t say anything. I couldn’t see her but she was probably dutifully writing it all down. They did check, or at least Dr Abele did. But I could have told them there was no need. Whatever I felt inside, outward manifestations of arousal dispensed almost from the first stroke. I screamed as the redwood cane lashed into me and I continued screaming and pleading throughout the delivery of all twenty. That cane was cutting my bottom in half and the sting and penetrating bite was indescribable. All of my sensations were concentrated in my bum. And that bum, upturned and carefully rearranged by an efficient Chinese medical, could not escape. No wonder the room is soundproofed. And my screaming and pleading only seemed to urge Dr Abele on to even harder lashings of my rear. No, oh Christ, please, no more. It is killing me. Aaagh. Oh God, No. My bum. My poor bum. No more please, Aaagh. No, please, please. Don’t hit me anymore. I am on fire. Oh God, let me die. Aaaaagh. And I sobbed, and sobbed, and sobbed. And as the last two or three whips to my bottom did their worst I cried continuously. I was still crying as they undid me. I was still crying as Dr Abele checked that my penis had returned to a flaccid state and I was still crying as he pulled up my pants and took me back to his consulting room. And if I was not crying as he lowered my pants again and rubbed some lotion into my buttocks it is only because, by then, I had no tears left to shed.

 
Sunday 20th 2.00 p.m.

I have been very calm today. The pain of Friday is starting to fade and, apart from a tenderness when I touch it, my bottom seems to have returned to normal. The marks appear more savage than from the first caning but, in compensation, the red lines have a ceaseless fascination. I went for a walk with my parents this morning and, as my mother fed the eager ducks in the park, my father asked me how I was feeling. Sore, I said, but apart from that I was fine. My father remained silent for some minutes and then, hesitantly, told me about the one occasion his father had beaten him. It had been unpleasant and painful but, after it was all over, it engendered unhealthy thoughts and feelings. That is why he had never chastised me and why he had written to Dr Petrov questioning the treatment being applied. I hadn’t the heart to tell him that his objections were two sessions too late.


Thursday 24th 3.15 p.m.

The hospital issued a statement today. There had been an item in the evening paper on Monday about Dr Petrov. Apparently a woman had contacted the paper regarding the treatment being applied to her son. He was 22 and suffered from mild depression. She was shocked when he told her that on the previous Friday he had been beaten on his bare buttocks at the hospital. The paper had requested an interview with Dr Petrov but he declined. On the following day the paper recorded three other cases, including a young woman, who had received the same treatment. They also reproduced an article from a medical journal outlining the benefits of this unorthodox system. Yesterday their letters page was full of correspondence praising or condemning the practice. Some were salacious or riddled with wishful thinking but others were balanced and sensible. But collectively, they had caused a local storm. And today the Chairman of the hospital trust issued a statement declaring that, after consultation with Dr Alexander Petrov, the practice of medically controlled canings had, temporarily, been suspended. The procedure was based on sound principles but the context and administration evoked strong and conflicting emotions in western societies. Dr Petrov, a man much respected in his profession, had no wish to undermine the confidence the community had in their local hospital and the matter had therefore been placed under review. In the interim alternative procedures would be enacted for the benefit of patients and the continued efficient running of the department. Dr Abele was not mentioned.

 

Friday 25th 6.00 p.m.

I should be at the hospital today getting my third treatment. I should be being tied to that trestle and, as some assistant positions my bottom and lowers my underpants, I should be getting sixty strokes of Dr Petrov’s National Health canes. Or even, and this seems better, an even harder sixty from the black arm of Dr Abele. But it isn’t to happen. I got a letter from the hospital today cancelling my appointment and giving me a revised date for Wednesday week when my case would be reviewed and alternative treatment offered. But this letter, and the one to my father agreeing with his concern, fails to understand. Dr Petrov is right. His treatment works. And I should know. I was only a third of the way through my six sessions but the two canings of my bottom had released all of my anger and frustration. I may have screamed, I may have begged for release from the stinging pain as the canes lashed my naked backside, but the relief and tears at its end induced a joy and serenity that were beyond my comprehension. After two sessions my all pervading gloom was beginning to lift. Sensitive fathers and, more pertinently, a sensitive public were to deny me the completion of a method that was working for me. I looked at the letter again. The appointment on Wednesday week was with Dr Mabuchi Abele.


Wednesday week 9.30 p.m.

I wasn’t sure how I was going to approach this. I arrived at Dr Abele’s waiting room at 5.00 p.m. and my heart was thumping. How was I going to tell him that I did not want any alternative treatment? That all I desired was for him to cane my backside. I clutched the letter to me and avidly re-read it. Was there a clue there, buried deep in the text? ‘Dr Abele will discuss the various aspects of your case with you and determine the required treatment relative to your needs and condition.’ It was all a bit bland but it left open the door for patient initiative. And patients are not unknown for demanding certain courses of treatment. With these thoughts dominating my mind I fretfully waited for the ring of Dr Abele’s buzzer and the calling of my name. There were three other people in the waiting room and my name was not attached to the sound of the buzzer until all had left. I rose from my chair and, walking to his door, tentatively knocked. He called me in and the dazzling white teeth and coal black face beamed in recognition. And as he rose and held out his shirt sleeved arm for a handshake I registered the rippling muscles that had, not long ago, been employed to special effect. I sat down and he asked me how I was. I went straight for the jugular. I did not agree with the hospital suspending my treatment, I did not agree with the pusillanimous capitulation to public opinion, and I did not agree with suggestions of alternative treatment. Dr Petrov was right. His methods worked. And in telling Dr Abele all this I poured out all my sexual and emotional frustrations. I poured every individual feeling of joy and surrender. Every moment of excitement and fear. Every scream at every sting, and every tear and blissful release of tensions. That cane on my bottom was a catharsis that I desperately needed and desired. To be denied it was akin to a cancer patient being denied an operation. Dr Abele watched me silently through my outburst and, beaming a smile which lit the world, leaned over his desk towards me and spoke.  ‘And Dr Petrov and I agree with you.’ He didn’t say anything else, just repeated those eight words. And as he repeated them he was making it clear that neither he nor Dr Petrov had any intention of denying the ‘Russian System’ to any who, in their opinion, needed its application. And he made it clear that I came, very firmly, into that capacity. The last words I can remember, the words that ring through my ears as I write this, is the words he delivered as he rose from his desk and rolled up the sleeve of his right arm. ‘Take off your clothes, Robbie, all of them, including your underpants. And when you have done so, bend over my desk. And stick out that bottom. As Dr Petrov often said, let the dog see the rabbit.’ And as he laughed and swished the cane he produced from his desk, I lowered my jeans in joyful and fearful anticipation. That Dr Petrov clearly knew a thing or two.

 

Alfred Roy (2006)
 
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