The Pledge Mistress
Copyright 2006 by EC
EC's Erotic Art & Fiction - http://www.ecgraphicarts.com/

(warnings: erotic discipline, sex between adults, medical fetish, public nudity, 
sexual hazing)

Chapter 12 – A lecture from Ruth Burnside

The morning exercise session came and went, followed by cooling off in the pool, 
showers, and breakfast.  Afterwards the sorority members grabbed backpacks and 
headed out the front door to go on a two-day hiking trip with the Tri-Alphas.  

The only people remaining in the sorority house were Heather and the pledges.  
The Sergeant-at-Arms ordered the pledges into the sitting room to issue some 
announcements.  The first order of business was the activity that weekend, a top-
to-bottom cleaning of the sorority house, which would be done for inspection.  
The pledges had between 9:00 a.m. Saturday and 12:00 noon on Sunday to 
complete the task.  How they organized and what breaks they chose to take were 
completely up to them, but they had to be finished by no later than noon on 
Sunday.  On Sunday, following lunch and cleanup, they would be transported to 
receive a seminar and practical exercise on the erotic disciplining of males.

“The house cleanup and tomorrow’s seminar are important for what’s happening 
next week.  Don’t forget that Tuesday the Tri-Alphas are swearing in their 
summer pledges, and later in the week those guys will start coming over here.  
They will be responsible for cleaning up this place and you’ll be helping with 
their supervision.  In other words, those guys will be working under you and 
you’ll be bossing them around.”

The four kneeling women looked at each other.  Bossing around male pledges?  
Awesome!

“Anyhow, it won’t do anyone any good if you don’t know exactly what’s 
expected from the cleaning manual.  You’ll need to learn what’s in there by heart 
because you’ll be using it to justify punishments and giving out rewards to the 
Triple-A pledges doing the cleanup.  The best way to learn is for you to do the 
cleanup yourselves first, and find out what mistakes will get your butt whipped.  
Keep that in mind.  Tomorrow night Pledge Mistress Tracy and I will be doing the 
walk-through inspection.  Your butts will pay dearly for any deficiencies or 
violations of the manual.  We’ll be fair about it, but expect to be punished for 
anything that’s not up to inspection standards.  We’re giving you 27 hours, so 
that’s plenty of time to get it right.  Work together and pay attention to detail, 
because if you don’t, you’ll be sleeping on your stomachs tomorrow night.  
Everyone understand?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

“Tomorrow’s seminar will deal with the other part of your responsibility with the 
male pledges, disciplining them and how to go about it.  For that part we got a 
special instructor for you, and I’ll tell you that we’re very lucky to have her.  
Getting a class from her will be a real honor for you, because it’s not normal to 
have someone of that caliber willing to spend time with freshman pledges.”

Lisa heart skipped a beat and she began to sweat.  It sounded very likely that 
tomorrow’s “special instructor” would be Dr. Ruth Burnside.

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Heather planned to be in and out of the house throughout the day, but told Lisa 
that she would be available if there were any problems or questions about the 
cleanup.  With that an idea occurred to Lisa, to ask Heather to do a preliminary 
inspection in the evening to give the pledges a chance to correct deficiencies 
Sunday morning.  The thought of consulting Heather ahead of time would not 
have occurred to any of Lisa’s companions.

Everyone, both Heather and the other pledges, took it for granted that Lisa was in 
charge.  Lisa decided to tackle the yard work first before the temperature outside 
got much hotter.  Because they were not allowed to wear any clothing apart from 
their work shoes, the pledges were only responsible for the back yard, not the 
front.  Nevertheless, there was plenty to do, not the least of which was washing 
down the side of the house and cleaning dozens of windows.  Fortunately the 
hedges already had been trimmed, but the grass had to be mowed and edged and 
weeding taken care of.  Weeding was particularly arduous, because the sorority 
did not allow the use of any herbicides.  All weeds had to be removed by hand.

There was the pool, which had to be cleaned and re-chlorinated.  The manual 
stated that not a single dead leaf could be present in the yard, so for nearly an hour 
there was a scavenger hunt for dead leaves.  The sorority’s mosquito trap had to 
be cleaned out, mold cleaned off the outdoor tables and chairs, and finally the 
patio had to be swept.  Lisa looked at the clock with dismay with they finished, 
because it already was 3:00 p.m. and the pledges had not touched anything 
indoors.

There had to be a break for lunch.  Lisa decided the pledges could save 
themselves some time by combining lunch and dinner and preparing only a single 
large late-afternoon meal.  In the morning they would eat cold leftovers to avoid 
having to wash any more cooking utensils and re-clean the stove.

“Eat up, ‘cause we’re not gonna dirty up the kitchen again after we’re done.”

Once the pledges finished eating, the kitchen took up most of the rest of the 
afternoon.  Unlike in the fraternity the previous week, the Four-Betas did not 
intentionally leave all the dirty dishes for the pledges, but still, there was a lot 
they needed to do.  As always, Lisa took the worst jobs for herself.  For example, 
she was the one who cleaned the ovens and scrubbed out the trashcans.

The next phase was the bathrooms.  The pledges used Lisa’s system of cleaning 
two bathrooms at a time.  Once a bathroom was finished Lisa put a piece of tape 
over the door.  She flatly told her companions that the only bathroom any of them 
could use was the pledge toilet downstairs.  After a bathroom was clean and 
taped, re-entry was strictly prohibited.

There was a final task for the night before Lisa let the pledges get some sleep, and 
that was linens and towels.  Lisa instructed her companions to wash, dry, and fold 
linens, figuring it would be hard for her companions to screw up linens.  
Meanwhile she swept and dusted upstairs, with the intention of forbidding anyone 
to go back up once the linen closets were restocked.

As the pledges were wrapping up in the linen room, Heather returned from the 
campus library.  As she went upstairs she was confronted by the sight of a 
thoroughly vacuumed carpet and tape on the bathroom doors.  She used one of the 
bathrooms, but was careful to leave it the same way she found it and to put the 
tape back on the door.  Obviously Pledge Lisa was leaving as little to chance as 
she could.

The pledges returned upstairs to restock the linen closets.  As they did so Lisa 
knelt at Heather’s door and asked permission to speak with her.  She handed 
Heather the manual and asked her opinion about how well the upstairs part of the 
house had been cleaned.

Heather told Lisa to get up.  The other pledges nervously clustered at the top of 
the stairs, but Lisa told them to go to the basement and get ready for bed.  Her 
tone clearly was, “I’ll handle this.  You guys get out of here.”  Heather was 
impressed when they immediately filed down the stairs without saying another 
word.

Lisa relayed to Heather what was and was not finished.  She thought the entire 
upstairs was done, along with the kitchen and linen room.  The downstairs would 
be finished in the morning.  Heather took up Lisa’s request to get a preliminary 
walk-through to fix problems.  It seemed there were plenty, mostly minor things 
but still violations that would have resulted in swats to the pledges’ bottoms had 
they not been corrected.  Heather caught a total of 53 violations, which Lisa wrote 
down.  Lisa’s foresight to seek Heather’s advice saved the pledges a total of 53 
swats the following afternoon.

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After six hours of sleep, the pledges were up again to finish the downstairs and 
basement.  They ate a very late cold breakfast, washed what remained of the 
dishes, and spent the final hour following Lisa’s instructions to look for and 
correct deficiencies.  Following what she had learned from Heather’s walk-
through the night before, Lisa was able to fix many problems herself.  

By the time the pledges finished, none of them questioned anything Lisa was 
commanding them to do.  She told them what to do, and they did it.  They worked 
as a team, with Lisa clearly their leader.

As the pledges showered and got ready for their afternoon training seminar, 
Heather wandered through the house, very impressed with its condition.  She and 
Tracy would be hard-pressed to find anything not in compliance with the 
inspection manual.  She noticed the tape still left on the bathroom doors.  No 
sooner had she noticed that violation, Pledge Cherine came running upstairs to 
pull it off.  At the last moment Lisa had remembered the tape, and sent Cherine to 
take care of it.

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At noon the pledges were kneeling in the sitting room waiting for Heather’s next 
instructions.  She handed Lisa the keys to their lockers and told them to get their 
notebooks and put on their shower shoes.  

Heather ordered the pledges to go outside in the hot sunlight and to get into a 
minivan.  There was some whistling from street as the pledges piled into the van, 
so they got in as quickly as possible.  They would be traveling naked of course, 
but fortunately the van had tinted windows so the pledges would not be seen by 
other drivers.  

Heather drove the pledges around the university to a suburban neighborhood on 
the other side.  The area consisted mostly of nice one-story houses built in the 
1960’s hidden behind trees and hedges.  Lisa recognized the neighborhood from 
last February.  Sure enough, they were headed to Ruth Burnside’s house.  

The van pulled up in the driveway.  Heather turned to face the pledges.

“When we get out, I want you all lined up behind me.  I will lead you to the front 
door and ring the doorbell.  I will lead you into a large living room.  You will go 
to the left and get on your knees in line.  Once you’re inside, you will keep your 
mouths shut unless someone talks to you.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

“Our instructor’s name is Dr. Ruth Burnside.  She’s one of our economics 
professors, but she’s also an expert in the topic of erotic discipline, which is why 
we’re here.  I’ll introduce each of you one by one.  When I say your name, you 
will stand up, step forward, and introduce yourself.  Once you shake Dr. 
Burnside’s hand, you will step back and return to your kneeling position.  Do you 
understand me?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

“You are not to speak unless she talks to you first.  If you do speak to her, you 
will address her as Dr. Burnside.  Consider this a special class from a top-rated 
university professor, which is exactly what it is.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

The pledges exited the vehicle and stood naked on the driveway.  They were not 
very visible to the rest of the neighborhood because of all the trees and bushes, 
but still they were relieved to have the door open and to be let inside.  Burnside 
was dressed in one of her business suits, immaculate, as she always was whenever 
she taught.

The Four-Beta Sergeant-at-Arms shook the professor’s hand and led the pledges 
inside.  They entered a very large living room and quickly turned to the left as 
instructed.  Once the pledges were kneeling, Heather stood in front her group.  

Lisa and the other pledges noticed a table full of discipline implements and 
restraints, along with Burnside’s punishment bench, in the middle of the room.  
There were a couple of wooden dining chairs as well. 

Heather exchanged some pleasantries with the professor, and then described the 
tasks and lessons that the pledges had completed so far.  Burnside asked if any of 
the pledges had been punished yet.  Heather responded that Bernadette and 
Kathleen each had been punished once, Bernadette for disobeying an order and 
Kathleen for inappropriate behavior during a practical exercise.  Heather relayed 
that Lisa already had been punished twice, “because she was so hard-headed and 
spirited.”

Heather called the pledges to stand up one by one and introduce themselves.  
When it was Lisa’s turn to shake the professor’s hand, Burnside acted as though 
they were meeting the very first time.  However, she gave her student a subtle, but 
very knowing look that seemed to say “hard-headed and spirited, huh?  We’ll 
have to work on that.”

Burnside sent Heather to the kitchen to call out the three young men who were to 
be the subjects of the afternoon’s practical exercise.  She opened the door and 
three very nervous naked college-age males followed her into the living room.  
Each was handcuffed.  Their pubic hair had been shaved off, making their genitals 
look much more exposed and vulnerable.  Burnside picked up a riding crop and 
used it to direct the subjects to kneel in line opposite the pledges.

Lisa recognized one of the subjects.  His name was Mark Gertz and he was 
Burnside’s current Teaching Assistant.  Lisa also knew, from having talked to 
Cecilia, that Mark was Burnside’s favorite “sub” and that she had officially 
collared him.  The professor and her TA had entered into a formal agreement that 
he was her slave and subject to any punishment or humiliation she chose to inflict 
on him.  

As for the other two, Lisa had not seen them before.  They looked very young, not 
any older than the pledges.  Lisa later learned that Mark had recruited them from a 
human sexuality class he had taken with them in the spring.  She found out that 
Mark had a real talent for identifying possible masochists and convincing them to 
submit to the professor.  

One of the younger men had a furious erection, much to his dismay and the 
women’s amusement.  Burnside ordered him to stand up and approach the 
pledges.  As he stood miserably with his penis sticking straight out, she casually 
asked him some personal questions.  She moved to sexual topics that aroused him, 
which heightened his embarrassment and increased his arousal.

“You know, Steve, it must be really embarrassing to have to stand there like that, 
in front of four beautiful naked young women, and have your little wienie sticking 
out.  Don’t you find that totally humiliating?”

“I…I…mean…”

“You’d better answer, Wienie-Boy.  I mean, think about it.  You’ll see these 
young women on campus, and that’s how they’ll remember you, as the pathetic 
little Wienie-Boy.  In fact, I’d bet that’s what they’ll call you.  Don’t you find that 
totally humiliating?”

The subject turned dark red from embarrassment.  His distress was clearly visible 
on his tormented face.  

“Y…yes…Dr. Burnside…I’m embarrassed.” 

Tears started running down his cheeks.

“Oh, how sad.  So now you’re crying.  Aww…and those are real tears, coming 
from the Wienie-Boy.  Now they’ll really remember you, as not just as Wienie-
Boy, but as Cry-Baby Wienie-Boy.”

Burnside turned to Lisa.

“Pledge Lisa, what is this kid’s name?”

“Cry-Baby Wienie-Boy, Dr. Burnside.”

Burnside pushed Steve to his knees.

“What is your name?”

“I…I mean…Cr…Cry-Baby Wienie-Boy…”

Burnside waited a second, as though he needed to say something else.  Suddenly 
she struck him savagely across the back with her riding crop.

“You forgot to address me properly, Cry-Baby Wienie-Boy!  Where’s your 
respect?”

She struck again.

“Ahhh!”

“I…Cry-Baby Wienie-Boy…Dr. Burnside…”

“There, was that so hard?  Not nearly as hard as you are…”

With that Burnside grabbed Steve’s arm and forced him back on his feet.  She 
lightly ran a finger over his erect penis as she turned to the pledges.

“Cry-Baby Wienie-Boy needs some relief.  What he needs is to have a nice big 
cum right out here in front of us all.  So, which one of you is going to volunteer 
for doing us that honor?”

Bernadette’s hand shot up.

“Pledge Bernadette.  Stand up please.”

Bernadette stood up.

“Who’s holding the jar to catch the sperm?”

“I…I guess I’ll have Pledge Cherine help.”

Cherine nervously stood up.  Burnside handed her a large jar.

“OK you two.  Have at it.”

Ignoring the miserable and humiliated look on Steve’s face, Bernadette grabbed 
his penis and began massaging it.  Applying some of what she had learned from 
the initial Four-Beta lesson in male sexual anatomy, she teased him by rubbing 
her breasts against his arm and chest, while Cherine laid one hand on his bottom 
and held the jar with the other.  

As soon as Bernadette began stroking his organ Steve climaxed.  He moaned as 
his semen shot into the jar.  Once he finished Cherine handed the jar to 
Bernadette, who held it up for the rest of the room.  Heather handed Cherine a box 
of tissues.  She took several and used them to wipe off the end of Steve’s 
softening penis.

Burnside told Bernadette to put the jar on the table and instructed both pledges to 
return to their kneeling positions with the others.  She instructed Heather to 
position a dining room chair in front of the pledges.  She then ordered Steve to 
stand next to the other freshman and wait.  Next she ordered her TA Mark 
approach her and position himself so she could remove his handcuffs.  Once the 
cuffs were off she told him to place his hands on the chair with his bottom facing 
the four kneeling women. 

“Pledges, I expect you to start taking notes, because from this point forward the 
material I am presenting will be included in the practical exercise and evaluation.”

The pledges opened their notebooks, placed them on the floor, and prepared to 
write.

“Erotic discipline has two goals.  Those are sexual arousal through physical 
stimulation and punishment through submission and physical pain.  Most erotic 
discipline falls somewhere in the middle of those two extremes.  A mild hand-
spanking after a wrestling session between two lovers in bed would fall closer to 
pure sexual arousal, while punishing someone, for example for cheating on a test, 
would fall closer to the other end, pure discipline with very little sexual 
gratification at the moment.”

“What we’re doing here will concentrate more on the punishment end of erotic 
discipline. What you’ll be doing with the male pledges is forcing them, through 
physical pain and the fear of physical pain, to comply with their duties and follow 
orders without question.  Later we will return to the subject of erotic spanking, but 
that will be only for your own benefit.  That’s not something you will be using 
with the male pledges, at least not at the beginning.”

“Anyhow, erotic punishment is not just about beating itself.  There are several 
steps, or phases, to a good discipline session.  To start, you should have clearly 
established rules of behavior and a prior agreement that violating those rules will 
result in castigation.  In other words, before there is even a hint of the first 
punishment for a specific offense, your subject should understand that if he fails 
to comply with what you want, you have the duty to discipline him and he has the 
duty to submit.  You have to have that prior understanding, because your 
authority over him is based on that prior understanding.  Now, in your case that 
won’t be much of a problem because the pledges are subject to the rules of the 
Tri-Alpha pledge handbook.  They’ve already accepted their situation and all you 
have to do is follow what’s already been laid out for you.  But you will need to 
know the rules inside and out to properly apply them.”

“Now, here’s how this will affect what you do with the pledges.  For a specific 
incident that results in real punishment, the first step is identifying your subject’s 
violation and determining why he needs to be punished.  You need to be clear in 
your own mind why you are punishing him and what you expect to get out of it.  
Think everything through from beginning to end.  Plan your scenario before you 
approach your subject.”

“Second, you need to let him know that he faces punishment.  Speak to him with 
authority, and make sure you can articulate why you are going to punish him.  
What you say and how you say it are very important.  Being able to cite rules 
from memory instead of fumbling through the rulebook will help you 
considerably, so spend whatever spare time you have studying that rulebook.”

“Third, and this absolutely crucial, you need to establish your dominance and 
psychologically prepare him to submit.  Your subject needs to accept that he 
should be punished.  If you do your job right, you will play on his guilt and make 
him actually want to be punished.  If you can build up tension that can only be 
relieved with physical pain, you will get a much more compliant sub and probably 
be able to inflict a more frightening chastisement.”

“I’ve given you your first example in establishing dominance for a punishment-
type scenario. Steve’s hard-on was a violation of proper behavior.  Before 
touching him we verbally established dominance by making him clearly 
understand that he was doing something wrong and that he needed to be 
humiliated because of it.  We did that before we ever touched him, which made 
him compliant for the physical humiliation that followed.  Under ordinary 
circumstances I would have continued the subjugation of Steve with corporal 
punishment.  The only reason I didn’t is because we need to save his bottom for 
the practical exercise.”

“Fourth, is the preparation of the punishment scene itself.  Think ahead and have 
everything thought out.  What implement will you use, what position will he 
assume, will he be restrained, will there be witnesses, and where the punishment 
takes place are all considerations.  For example, if you put a subject over your lap, 
a riding crop won’t do you much good.  Conversely, if you have him bent over a 
chair, a hairbrush won’t be as effective as a paddle.  If you want to tie him, don’t 
use a sofa where there’s nowhere to attach ropes.  You need to be sure of yourself 
and not make a bunch of clumsy mistakes that will take up time and make you 
look incompetent.”

Burnside paused to give the pledges time to finish writing.  She picked up a thick 
leather strap and tapped the insides of Mark’s thighs to get him to spread his feet.  
Then she pressed down on his lower back to make him turn his bottom up.  His 
bottom-hole and the backs of his testicles were fully visible to the four pledges.  
The professor continued:

“Now for the punishment itself.  First of all, I believe that a person being 
punished should always be completely naked.  Being naked sets the subject apart 
from the rest of the world and is an important gesture of humility.  It also is a part 
of an unspoken agreement I have with my subjects, that as long as they are naked 
I am in control of their lives.  I take away their clothes, and they have to please 
me before they can earn them back.  Their bodies and their souls are exposed and 
unprotected, and will stay that way until I decide otherwise.”

“A related issue is exposure during the beating itself.”  Burnside pointed at 
Mark’s spread bottom.  “You want your subject positioned so the anus and 
genitalia are on full display.  The bottom needs to be turned up and the legs at 
least slightly spread.  This is necessary not just for display, but also to prevent 
your subject from clenching his bottom-cheeks and reducing the effectiveness of 
each blow.  The rule is, if you can’t see his asshole, then you need to reposition 
him.”

“Now for the blows.  Imagine a full circular swing, not one that stops right where 
the bottom is.  You need to hit through your target, a nice wide, graceful swing 
that will just happened to be interrupted by his butt.  Make sure you are properly 
positioned, so you can lay a blow evenly across the bottom, like this…”

Burnside stood off to one side of Mark, making sure his bottom would receive the 
full force of the blow she was about to deliver.  She drew back her arm, and with 
a full confident swing struck hard across both sides of his bottom.  The entire 
room echoed with a resounding CRACK!

Mark did not move, because this was nothing new to him.  His mistress had 
beaten him plenty over the past several years.  However, the pledges could hear 
his breathing change and watched as a wide stripe on his bottom quickly changed 
from white to pink.  Burnside repositioned herself and tapped his bottom with the 
strap.

“Each blow needs to be delivered individually.  Position yourself each time and 
think about what you are doing.  Each stroke is an event in and of itself, each one 
carefully thought out.  At this point I’m not worried about the over-all 
punishment, I’m worried about properly delivering the next stroke.”

CRACK!

A second stripe, slightly overlapping the first one, changed color and added to the 
pink on Mark’s unprotected backside.  The pledges could see that both strokes 
had been quite painful, but Mark stayed perfectly still and silent.  His duty to his 
mistress was quite clear; he needed to reduce himself to a teaching prop for 
Burnside’s instruction.  He was nothing more than an inanimate object until his 
mistress told him otherwise. 

Burnside changed her position to the other side of Mark.

“It is very important that you punish both sides evenly.  That’s how you can tell 
an experienced disciplinarian from a novice.  So, every so often you should 
switch sides and give a good backhanded blow, like this…”

CRACK!

“Everyone understand?”

“Yes, Dr. Burnside.”

“Good.  In a moment you’ll have your first round of target practice.  But before 
we do that, I want to finish up with the overview of the punishment experience.”

“What happens afterwards is as important as the beating itself.  After you’re done 
with the physical part of the punishment, you need to successfully wind down the 
experience. The point is; once you’ve delivered your last blow, you don’t just 
hang up your strap and walk off.  You don’t just tell your subject that he’s 
released and to ‘not do it again’.  Once you’re done with the physical part, you 
still have two things you need to do.  First of all is a final part of the punishment 
itself.  That can be corner-time, posing for pictures, extra chores, giving a speech 
about his bad behavior, giving you or someone else oral sex, heavy 
exercising…just to give you a few examples.  Use your imagination.  Make sure 
it’s something either difficult or embarrassing.  I believe the post-whipping part of 
the punishment, just like the physical part, should always be in the nude.  The 
subject should not get his clothes back until the punishment is completely over.  
Once again, the message is: ‘you are to serve me until I give you your clothes 
back.”

“Now for the final part, redemption and forgiveness.  What you’re looking for is 
exorcising your subject’s guilt, letting him know he’s forgiven, and making sure 
he understands what lesson he needs to take away from the punishment.  There 
needs to be some type of ritual of redemption at the end of the punishment, 
something that is meaningful to the person being punished.  Try to make your 
subject understand why you had to punish him, that it was something he needed, 
and you only did it because you love him and care about him.  If you can make 
him feel good about having been punished, and that the hardship he endured was 
something necessary for his own well-being, then you will have had a successful 
punishment session.  You’re not going to get that every time, but try to get as 
close as possible.”

As the pledge frantically finished writing, Burnside stepped up to Mark and 
gently rubbed the stripes on his bottom.  He dutifully stayed in position, since he 
had not been instructed to move.  Burnside addressed the pledges:

“I’m going to give you the chance to practice delivering blows with this strap.  
Please take a close look at it, familiarize yourself with how it feels, and then pass 
it on to your classmate.”  She handed the strap to Bernadette and continued as 
each pledge looked at the implement and passed it along.  “You’ll notice the 
leather is thick and heavy.  It’s got some flexibility and will bend upon impact, 
which helps it reach more of the bottom’s surface each time it hits.”

Burnside glanced at Heather and gestured with her hand that she wanted to 
pledges to get off their knees.

“PLEDGES, STAND UP!”

The four young women scrambled to their feet.

“Now, each of you is going to deliver four blows with this strap, two from the left 
side and two backhanded blows from the right.  Pledge Lisa, you will begin.”

Lisa took her position next to Mark.  She felt very strange punishing the same guy 
who taught her seminars, but pushed that thought aside and positioned herself to 
deliver the swats.  There was no difficulty for her, given that she had punished 
Ken in the same manner plenty of times.

CRACK!!!…CRACK!!!

Lisa delivered two truly vicious swats that actually made Mark jerk from the pain 
and force of the impact.  Her companions stood dumbfounded, since they didn’t 
know about her prior relationship with Ken.  They had assumed that she was 
wielding the strap for the first time.  Lisa positioned herself for the two 
backhanded blows…

CRACK!!!…CRACK!!!

The force of Lisa’s four swats darkened Mark’s bottom considerably.  She passed 
her hand over his bottom, feeling satisfaction at the heat rising from his injured 
skin.  The three others looked at each other, nervous that Lisa had set such a high 
standard for what would be considered a good swat.

Lisa handed the strap to Kathleen.  At first Kathleen was too nervous to raise her 
arm, but then suddenly a memory rose up in her mind.  She thought about the 
humiliation she suffered just a month before at the night of the Senior Prom; when 
her date never showed up and she sat in her formal gown crying in her family’s 
living room.  The anger welled up inside her, rising from her feet to her guts, and 
finally making its way into her arm.  She delivered a truly savage blow, actually 
stepping into her swing.  She gritted her teeth and struck again.

“Good job with the force, Pledge Kathleen.  Try to concentrate a bit more on 
control.  Give him another, but focus on where you’re swinging.”

CRACK!!!

“Excellent!  Now for the backhanded swipes.  Focus on your aim.”

CRACK!!!…CRACK!!!

Kathleen stood with the strap, trembling and breathing heavily.  She was perfectly 
ready to swing again, but unfortunately Burnside took the strap from her and 
handed it to Bernadette.  Lisa glanced at her lover’s odd expression.  She realized 
that something inside Kathleen’s soul had just been released and that she very 
much was looking forward to taking out her aggression on the two freshmen 
during the practical exercise.

Mark had another eight swats coming to him: four from Bernadette and four from 
Cherine.  Burnside was not satisfied with Cherine’s backhanded strokes and made 
her repeat them.  

After Cherine finished, Burnside gave a review of her lecture about erotic 
punishment, emphasizing the purpose and phases of a good punishment.  She 
ordered the pledges to review their notes and prepare for a written quiz on the 
afternoon’s material.  For the next 20 minutes she professor dictated questions 
about her class as the students wrote their answers.

All that time Mark quietly kept his position.  He would stay that way until 
Burnside told him to get up or until he dropped from exhaustion.  The fact that his 
bottom was in serious pain and his legs were starting to cramp was of no concern 
to him.  As Burnside put it: “It’s mind over matter.  If you don’t mind, it doesn’t 
matter.”

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The next part of Burnside’s lecture was a demonstration of various punishment 
positions.  Mark went over her lap as the professor showed the pledges various 
positions for a hand spanking.  Each time Mark changed his position his mistress 
gave him several painful swats.  

Burnside then led her sub and the pledges to the sofa. Mark went over her lap and 
properly positioned himself for another hand-spanking.  Burnside explained:

“For an erotic spanking, this is the best and most comfortable position for both the 
spanker and spankee.  The spankee is fully supported and comfortable, while the 
spanker’s back is supported and there’s no pressure on her knees.  The nice thing 
about using a sofa is, because it’s so comfortable, you can stay like this for hours.  
You can’t do that with any other position.  So if you’re doing this for sexual 
foreplay and don’t want anything too serious, this is the best way to go.”

Burnside stood Mark up and told him to bend over and grab his ankles.

“There are various unsupported standing positions.  To use any of these your sub 
has to be completely cooperative.  These are good positions for public punishment 
and embarrassment, but I don’t recommend an unsupported standing position for 
serious flagellation.”

Burnside struck Mark with the strap while his hands were still on his ankles, then 
told him to move his hands to his knees, spread his legs as widely as possible, and 
stuck hard again.  She moved him to a table and told him to place his hands on the 
tabletop and spread his legs.

“Now your sub has some support, so you can engage in some serious ass-
whipping.”

Burnside picked up a martinet and severely struck Mark several times.

“Another variation is to have your subject lie flat on the table and grab the 
opposite edge with his hands…”

As Mark stretched over the table, Burnside picked up a large wooden paddle.  She 
gave him a couple of cruel swats and continued:

“One position that a lot of people use is to have the subject lie flat on his stomach, 
for example on top of a bed.  Mark, please lie flat on the table.”

Mark complied, stretching himself over the table.  That position emphasized the 
contrast between his purplish-red bottom and his unmarked legs and back.  Lisa 
cringed, because Mark’s bottom already had taken a lot of punishment and was in 
bad shape.  She wondered how much more the professor could hit him without 
breaking his skin.  Burnside laid her hand on this bottom.

“I don’t like this position and never use it.  Can anyone tell me why?”

Cherine raised her hand.

“Dr. Burnside…’cause he can squeeze his bottom together?”

“Exactly.  He can squeeze his bottom-cheeks together, which means I’m not in 
control of his punishment.  Remember my rule, if you can’t see his asshole you 
need to reposition him.  Now let’s try a variation of the lying position.”

Burnside slipped a hard cylinder-shaped pillow under Mark’s pelvis and ordered 
him to spread his hands and feet.  Now he was completely exposed.  Burnside 
quickly took four short pieces of rope and secured Mark’s wrists and ankles to the 
table legs.

“We just took a bad position and converted it to a very good one.  Now he is 
exposed and his ass spread wide.  This is a relatively comfortable position, so you 
can keep him like this for a long time.  It’s also a very humiliating position, so 
you can use it to punish a pledge during a public event or gathering.”

Burnside picked up a riding crop.  She struck hard at the tender area around 
Mark’s shaved anus and the vulnerable skin at the very base of his bottom-cheeks.  
The strokes with the crop broke him.  He started crying, but tried to stay as quiet 
as possible.

Burnside ordered Kathleen to pick up two sets of chains with cuffs on the end 
from the table.  Because Lisa was the tallest member of the pledge group, the 
professor ordered her to stand on a chair and hang the chains from hooks on the 
ceiling.  Meanwhile, Bernadette and Cherine untied the ropes holding Mark to the 
table.  Mark quietly positioned himself under the chains.  Burnside secured his 
hands in the cuffs and continued:

“This position is what you use for a formal flogging.  You’ll notice that you have 
access to your subject’s entire body.  However, that doesn’t mean that you can hit 
him anywhere you want.  There are areas you need to avoid, which include the 
neck, the stomach, the backs of the knees, and the part of the lower back that’s not 
protected by the ribcage or pelvis.  Also, you need to avoid hitting the genitals.  
And there’s something else you never hit.  If you are punishing a woman, you do 
NOT hit her breasts.  I don’t care how many times you see it in literature; you just 
don’t do it!  That’ll cause permanent injury, and that’s not what we’re after.  I’ll 
mark off the areas you need to avoid and then give you a demo.”

Burnside took a very thick black magic marker and drew lines all over Mark’s 
body.  With a red magic marker she drew X’s in the areas not safe to strike.  
When she finished her sub’s body looked something like a butcher’s diagram.  
She picked up a buggy-whip and positioned herself to strike:

“You’ll notice this whip is a modified version of what teamsters used on horses.  
It looks scarier than is really is.  The leather is designed to sting but not break the 
skin.  It’s one of the most effective discipline items I have, because it hurts like 
hell but I can use it for a very long time and not worry about serious injury.

CRACK!…CRACK!… CRACK!… CRACK!… CRACK!… CRACK!… 
CRACK!

Burnside flogged Mark in the areas labeled as “safe” to punish.  Within a few 
minutes he was covered with red lines crisscrossing his upper thighs and upper 
back.  He cried pitifully as his mistress finished whipping him.  With that 
Burnside’s demonstration with Mark ended.  She unhooked his cuffs and told him 
to kneel in the corner with his hands behind his head.

Upon finishing the demonstration portion of her lesson, Burnside ordered the 
pledges and their mentor to take seats at the dining room table.  She ordered Mark 
to get up off his knees and offer her guests glasses of juice or mineral water.  He 
painfully got up and moved to the kitchen.  His body was covered with black and 
red lines from the magic markers, as well as whip marks.  His bottom was a dark 
purplish-red.  He not only was in serious pain, but also very exhausted. 

Once the glasses of juice and water were on the table, Burnside sent Mark back 
into the kitchen to bring out bowls of fruit salad.  The pledges were grateful for 
the food, even though it was little more than a healthy snack.  It took the edge off 
their appetites and helped prepare them for the next part of the day’s adventure, 
the practical exercise.  

As soon as he finished serving, Burnside directed Mark to return to his spot in the 
corner and get back on his knees.  There was no kindness from the professor to 
her sub, but that didn’t matter.  Mark’s purpose in life was to satisfy his mistress, 
no matter what.  The more unreasonable she was with him, the harder he worked 
to please her.  The crueler she was to him, the more he loved her.

