I will be using the “After Dark” category to identify writings that touch on topics beyond spanking or that may be more sexual for some folks, so people can skip them if they want. There’s no shame in these topics for me, “After Dark” is just a fun term to refer to adult content…within adult content ha!

In a recent post, I mentioned Daniel and I have an “orange socks” rule about asking permission – you know, for me to touch myself. Our permission rule only applies to masturbation/orgasm, but the concept of an “orange socks” rule came from the Usenet news groups alt.sex.spanking (ASS) and soc.sexuality.spanking (SSS). I was too young for ASS but I found SSS (I’ve linked here to the google group archive because it’s easily accessible) when I was a teenager and it’s part of where I got my online start and found stories to read – the newsgroup gave rise to many of the classic spanking authors folks still remember today, and was the origination for Laura’s Spanking Corner. I even became a moderator of the group later on when I was 19. I don’t know who originated this concept, though an older SSS veteran might, but it’s the idea that you can have something basically arbitrary with no real world implications, like wearing orange socks for example, where when you do it, it prompts a disciplinary-style spanking. It’s a way of signaling a need! So I can confess to having an orgasm without permission, to prompt this kind of play.