Clumsy Oaf

One thing we can say with absolute certainty is that this clumsy oaf of a slave is going to be whipped. He has broken a bottle in his mistress’s house and so deserves to be punished.

Don’t be fooled by the mistress’s pastel pink socks. She is not disposed to show the clumsy fool any sweet feminine mercy, as you can tell by the stern expression on her pretty face. She is merely pondering how many lashes of the whip he should receive for his misdemeanour.

It would appear, also, that it is her sexual partner – the slave’s master-sir – who will be administering the punishment. He looks keen to ply the sturdy whip across the slave’s kneeling back – as well he might, for he is not the one in this young woman’s bad books (even though, just between you and me, it was the master-sir who actually dropped and broke the glass bottle; not deliberately, with the intention of getting the slave into trouble; but accidentally. Still, why should the free male admit to a clumsy mishap when the hapless slave can be made to take the blame, and the free male gets to whip the ‘guilty’ party?)

Ha! Ha! No wonder the master-sir is smiling to himself. He is a winner in life, whilst the slave is a loser – and about to be ‘sore loser’ at that!

Other points to note about this scene:

• The slave is required to wear a heavy wooden slave collar, known as a cangue (or sometimes referred to colloquially as a 'wooden ruff')
• It is designed both to humble him and to weigh him down
• It humbles him by making him look stupid. Plus his mistress and master have adorned it with a series of humiliating words designed to sum up his miserable slave existence, so that everyone can laugh at him
• It weighs him down at the neck, thereby obliging him to live his life on his hands and knees and with a bowed head - a fitting posture for a lowly, household footslave
• Note too the small, protruding shelf on the cangue beneath the slave's face. This is to facilitate those masters and mistresses who wish to have the slave kiss their feet.
• The master-sir looks to be an older man - balding and with pockmarked skin. But he is still much more handsome and attractive to women than the slave. After all, he isn't the one having to wear a demeaning wooden ruff! Even in his somewhat scruffy-looking pyjamas the master-sir is much better dressed than the raggedly-assed slave!
• The foolish slave appears to be pleading for mercy. Ha! Ha! No chance, fool. I mean, I know you can't look up at the expression on your mistress's face, due to your wooden ruff, but, take it from me, she ain't about to show you any mercy! Ha! Ha! I think the best you can probably hope for is that she will stand in front of you and let you look at her sneakers and socks whilst the master-sir is whipping you!

So, what do you think? How many lashes should the slave receive? And would you impose any additional penalties upon him? Plus, do you think the mistress should permit the slave to observe her sneakers and socks whilst he is being whipped?