The Branks, also sometimes called Dame’s Bridle, or Scold’s Bridle comprised of a metal facial mask and spiked mouth depressor that was implemented on housewives up until the 19th century. Sometimes called “A scold’s bridle”, as well as “brank’s bridle” was a punishment device used on women, as a form of torture and public humiliation. It was an iron muzzle in an iron framework that enclosed the head. The bridle-bit (or curb-plate) was about 2 inches long and 1 inch broad, projected into the mouth and pressed down on top of the tongue. The “curb-plate” was frequently studded with spikes, so that if the tongue moved, it inflicted pain and made speaking impossible. Many men sustained in this “husband’s right” to “handle his wife”, and to use salutary restraints in any case of “misbehavior” without the intervention of what some court records of 1824 referred to as “vexatious prosecutions.” Generally a husband would need only to accuse his wife of disagreeing with his decisions, at which the Branks could be applied. The woman would then be paraded through the streets, or chained to the market cross where she was exposed to public ridicule. Wives that were seen as witches, shrews, gossips, nags and scolds, were forced to wear a brank’s bridle, which had been locked on the head of the woman and sometimes had a ring and chain attached to it as a leash so her husband could parade her around town and the town’s people could scold her and treat her with contempt; at times smearing excrement on her and beating her, sometimes to death.
Sometimes when folks say this miss the good ol days..I have a real hard time understanding what the fuck you mean. Nostalgia my asshole…
I would murder him in his sleep.
Can’t reblog this without mentioning the very similar masks used on slaves in the American colonies during the same centuries.
Thought you guys might appreciate some hot guys in kilts. I don’t own any of these images.
ME. GUSTA.
Hell yes ;DD
8| Oh. Suddenly. New fetish.
someone hold me back
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Stick!Spank Master Post!
Since it seems I have wrapped up the Stick!Spank Series I decided to put then all in one handy master post! this feels pretty complete…It almost makes me want to make this a book of some sort as a simplified comprehensive spanking guide.
Now moving on to the Stick!Fetish Flyers.
Seriously, this is so cool. You should totally write a guide. I love your posts (especially these) and think they are totally awesome and helpful!
I think this is a handy guide. Yes indeed.
If you are gon’ spank me, you do a good damn job.
“… oh Rolf, what are you doing to me?”
Dorothy Gale engages in some brief shoe fetishism (of course) during a one-night stand in Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s graphic novel, Lost Girls.
psdo:
Joseph Gatt in Banshee
JOE
If Prometheus went the way I wanted it to go.
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