God, the most embarrassing thing ever! Mum said, "Hey! when I smack you just like this, I can totally see your hiney-hole!"
I couldn't believe it! We don't talk about bodily functions or anything unless it's medically necessary! I wanted to say, 'Then don't DO that!' (when she uses the paddle cross-ways, it presses my cheeks together. In fact, I get purple almost-blood-blisters along the edges of my crack on both sides.) I turned my face away and let the pain make me cry.
She must have known it embarrassed me because next time I was across her knee, she said, "Relax these buns! You're hurting my hand!" and when I didn't right away she said, "Don't worry, I can't see anything!" So I tried to relax.
(pretty ironic, I posted the picture above without the censoring and it got flagged as 'too explicit' - so I guess Tumblr agreed with my embarrassment!)
After she'd spanked me she said, "I don't like using that long paddle up-and-down, anyway. It gave you those bruises (she ran her fingernail across the top of each thigh in the middle) from where the tip of the paddle got you. We won't do that anymore."
She might have felt my arousal coming back because she picked up her small paddle (small but really hard) and used it briefly (brief but really hard).
As for the 'facing my feet' spanking, which she DID like, she switched to one of her straps. Not entirely an improvement!