Gloria's Uncertainty Principle

Gloria's Uncertainty Principle

By Susan Greenway

This story consists of an article from The Ladies' Guide to Discipline and Supervision, a monthly magazine exclusively subscribed to by women in the fictional Women's Republic. It deals with spanking and other disciplinary measures and bodily functions. The author of the following article was introduced in my story, "Changing Husband's Behavior Ch. 02."All characters are 18 or over."

Uncertainty's Role in Effective Discipline

By Gloria Palmer, Assistant Secretary for Women's Advancement, Women's Republic

(Asst. Secy. Palmer is a regular columnist who is resolute in her position to serving all women who need help in asserting their control of husbands, boyfriends, sons, and nephews, in the home.)

Women may increase the impact of disciplinary tools such as spanking or caning by never specifying in advance how many spanks or strokes there will be given when the punishment is administered.

Although the "six of the best" cane strokes in the British tradition has persisted, this actually creates uncertainty for anyone being spanked or caned: when a seventh stroke is given; the recipient is now plunged into uncertainty as to how many strokes he or she is likely to receive since the seventh stroke meant that the traditional six has been rendered irrelevant.

Consequently, uncertainty is an excellent approach for administration of all discipline. If punishments are not given immediately after the offense, the person who will be punished has plenty of time to anticipate and develop fearful thoughts about how the punishment will be carried out.

When the Women's Republic was created after the demise of the previous male-dominated state, many women had never learned to exercise authority even in their homes. Early legislation established the position of "responsible woman" who would make critical decisions for the family or household; this authority was broad and included the imposition of necessary discipline in the family or household.

Training centers were soon organized to develop these managerial skills of responsible women. It became apparent that most required specific training in how to impose discipline on family and household members.

A cadre of skilled training personnel was developed to impart this knowledge and specific disciplinary skills. Training for these women continues at what are now known as Reeducation Centers, that primarily focus on retraining men referred for remedial training by their responsible women. Significant discipline accompanies the retraining of men.

Beyond teaching women basic disciplinary skills, such as spanking, caning, non-physical punishments, and how to perform their managerial responsibilities, themes such as the need in civilized society for women to be in charge of men, women need to understand how these skills can be put to best use in their daily lives.

This is the objective of this Ladies Guide to Supervision and Discipline; because what we feature could be misused, we have recommended that our subscribers limit the readers of this publication to women only, and that each be apprised of this stricture. Men allowed to read it should be given written permission by the responsible woman to whom they report.

The theme explored in this article is the important role of uncertainty in how discipline is managed. Use of the concept of uncertainty magnifies the effect of both your management and disciplinary acts.

Once you have awarded a caning, for example, the person to be disciplined will only wonder and fear how many strokes you are likely to give him. This uncertainty will dominate his or her thinking until the time of the punishment approaches. That may well occur several hours or days later.

Men would also fear many other techniques women are learning to employ in training. Usually, a woman will want to require the man to wear panties, eventually all the time. Some panties, like rumba panties with ruffles, are clearly more shameful than plain white cotton undies.

Bad behavior when wearing any kind of panties should result in a man's being put into diapers. How long he would have to wear diapers becomes a good source of uncertainty, too. While a definite time might be stated when the punishment is imposed, sage disciplinarians merely observe that the time during which diapers will be worn is indefinite. I also like using diaper covers which lock--this ensures that the diaper will not be untaped or removed by the wearer.

The man being trained would not know whether he would be dressed in feminine clothing or for how long--schoolgirl uniforms are popular among women now for those adults being trained to wear them. Often, the person may be made to wear the parochial school uniform formerly worn by daughters now away at college or graduate school. In one instance, a 21-year-old left her underwear and other clothing in her room; this clothing thus may be readily accessed for the person being trained or punished to wear.

I had the pleasure of meeting two sisters who are quite different in that one has a strong dominant strain but is also very sexually sophisticated for her age. The elder sister, Elizabeth, or Liz, who has always been an excellent student, is pursuing a Ph. D., and comes home rarely. When the 18-year-old daughter, Holly, was asked to take charge of an older trainee who was in his 30s, she told him he could wear any of the many plain cotton white panties in Liz's panty drawer in her dresser. Some of the panties even had faint pee, poo, and period stains in the gussets. This may remind the man being supervised that he is wearing panties that have been frequently worn by the woman in whose room he is staying.

Another idea about panties comes from a dominant woman who sometimes makes her husband, whom she is training, wear tight little girly panties which are both uncomfortable and humiliating. A man who is staying there under her supervision found that he was focusing principally on avoiding being ordered by his trainer to wear them for punishment.

This advice is offered to a special, vital group of women: the "responsible women" of the Republic. Every family or household has such a woman, who is responsible for imposing all discipline on everyone in the family or household. These women also possess authority to approve many requests by the people under their authority, including travel, school or college attendance, and other administrative requirements.

This uncertainty principle is equally useful to women who supervise other women or who dominated those women. These tended to be the "responsible women" who had the power in the family or household. One mother, for example, disciplined her 18-year-old daughter who had misbehaved, by requiring her to wear the tight little girly panties she longed to escape for good.

Although it is always inadvisable to discipline a women in front of men, punishment carried out in front of others is definitely allowable within families and households. Women who have misbehaved may find themselves rendering toilet service to the woman who supervises them, who may also regulate their toilet use, viz., when, and how they may use the toilet.

It should be effective for a woman in charge to mention to those men or women she supervises that she might monitor their toilet usage, including when they could go; she may choose to stay in the bathroom and decide when they may pull down their panties and when they could actually pee or defecate. (It should be noted that general advice to responsible women has been issued recommending that all men be required to use the toilet in the sitting position.) Exactly how bathroom supervision will be implemented in an individual situation should be left unspecified, so the person submitting would contemplate what might happen without knowing when or how it would be put into effect.

Family relationships such as those between sisters as well as among family members may lead to the use of other techniques, such as punishing an older son or daughter by placing the younger daughter in charge of them to impose discipline when they misbehave. In the instance mentioned earlier where Elizabeth, the older sibling, was made subject to Holly, the younger one in charge, this was one factor spurring Liz to leave for both college and graduate school and caused her to limit her rare visits home even more.

"Yes," Holly smiled in explaining the situation at home to me, "it was quite exciting for me when I made her pull down her panties and get across my lap for a spanking the first time. My sister's face was redder than her bottom became after I spanked her! After all, she was already away at college and thought she had escaped being disciplined by our mother, much less me, and I was just 18!"

When I asked Holly how she had dominated her older sister in other ways, she recalled, "Liz was careless about wiping, so I often made her pull down her panties for inspection. She never seemed to bother to wipe enough to avoid staining her undies when she used the toilet or had her period. I started having her wear her old parochial school uniform as punishment when she had misbehaved, especially when she came home inebriated from get-togethers with her friends."

Her mother supported the imposition of yet more embarrassment when Holly informed Liz that she would be wearing a Kotex belt with a sanitary napkin during her next period, which was made possible only because her mother found her old belt and napkins buried deep in a dresser drawer.

I asked if Holly had ever made her sister or the husband of a friend who had sent him to her for disciplining wait when they asked to use the toilet. She grinned before answering that she once had restricted the friend's husband because she felt he was making light of her authority by making too many toilet use requests. In fact, she had made him wait half an hour when he said he desperately needed to shit. The man complied with this stern order and held it in since he knew that if he lost control in his panties, she would put him into diapers.

Thus, we can see that making him wait to use the toilet and making him fear that he might be put into diapers both contribute more uncertainty to his situation with the impact previously discussed.

In response to this account, I recommended that once a man or woman was put into diapers, they should have to behave well and let the woman who supervised them know when they were likely to do Number Two, so the supervisor could decide whether to untape the diaper to avoid having to change it--usually a messy process. "I'd also keep him in a diaper for a week before considering promotion to panties," I declared to the fascinated young woman domme.

Altering the tempo of a spanking or caning can lead to uncertainty in the mind of the person being punished. The spanker might deliver several hard spanks to one cheek and then alternate spanks between cheeks and mix up these patterns so that it becomes unclear as to how the spanking will proceed. The tempo might also be changed when the spanker substitutes a hairbrush, for example, for her hand.

The cane is a perfect woman's weapon because only a flick of the wrist can impart a stinging stroke and leave a red line on the bottom. Some women cane methodically: they start at the top of the bottom and move down with each stroke so that a series of parallel red lines appear. But uncertainty may be utilized if the caner follows that pattern but then delivers a powerful stroke to the sensitive area between the bottom and thigh.

This stroke would not be anticipated, so will be all the more effective. It's often recommended that cane strokes be given with plenty of time between strokes for the recipient to think about how strong or weak the next stroke may be. When a stroke turns out to be one that the recipient did not expect, more uncertainty is created in his or her mind.

A young woman in her 20s, Jennifer, who shares an apartment with three other twentyish women has been recognized by her roommates as more mature and thus well suited to determining how any of them who break the rules established for cleaning up the kitchen, bathroom, and bedrooms should be disciplined. The roommates have empowered her to decide whether spanking, caning, or some form of embarrassment is the appropriate remedy for misbehavior.

When it becomes clear that one of them has earned punishment, Jennifer is likely to tell her in front of the others that she will be punished when everyone returns to the apartment after work. The woman singled out must go to work knowing that she will receive significant discipline later in the day but does not know what kind of punishment will be awarded.

Jennifer has built in some practices that increase the uncertainty of the disciplinary process. Sometimes, the woman being punished may daringly but lightly try to justify her behavior or even plead for remission. Pleading of this sort may cause Jennifer to announce summarily that her punishment is being doubled. Also, if a protest occurs when Jennifer decrees a spanking, the punishment may instantly be elevated to a caning or whipping.

It is also up to Jennifer whether punishment is administered before or after the evening meal. Postponing it until after the dinner will have the woman who is to be disciplined constantly on edge as she thinks about what the particulars of her punishment will be. She knows she is likely to be spanked, but Jennifer may not have told her that her offense was serious enough to warrant caning.

When Jen spanks, she also decides whether to lower panties or not. If she allows the woman to keep her underpants up, that does not prevent Jennifer from lowering panties during the spanking, for example, when she shifts to using a hairbrush.

Some might believe that having a definite schedule of offenses and resulting punishments puts all on notice as to what will happen if they misbehave. It seems much more effective, however, to set a time for the person being disciplined to appear for their punishment but not to provide any further details about what the punishment will be or how it will be administered.

Another way that uncertainty may be utilized in discipline as a major psychological factor concerns ancillary punishment. Preparation for punishment may begin at some time before the actual spanking or caning occurs; this may include anal insertion of a glycerin suppository (which causes need to defecate) or soap slivers (which sting inside the anus). The woman being disciplined may be ordered to put on a specified punishment uniform designed to embarrass her.

She may be required to serve corner time before or after the main punishment. Usually this ranges between 15 and 30 minutes. The disciplinarian usually will decide whether corner time is appropriate and whether it should be awarded before or after the spanking or caning. It may also be served with panties pulled down to the knees or ankles.

Corner time after punishment usually features having the person punished face the corner so that her red bottom is only full display to all who pass by. Corner time imposed before punishment can have her facing out of the corner with her panties down so that her private parts are exposed. Although the time in the corner may usually be the same--15 or 30 minutes, for example--the disciplinarian may not specify how long it will be or say that it is going to continue indefinitely.

Stinging nettles are more commonly employed in punishment in Europe, but the disciplinarian may don plastic or rubber gloves to place the leaves in the gusset of panties or to rub the nettles between the legs. Placement in panties may serve as preparation before punishment or may be added after completion of the spanking or caning to extend the impact of the discipline.

Another technique for use prior to or after punishment is having the recipient wear a butt plug, usually for an indefinite time. Special training panties with places in the gusset to attach rectal and vaginal plugs have become available in the Republic.

I have not written here about the retraining camps, primarily for men, where men referred by their wives or the "responsible woman" in their family household, spend several weeks learning to respect women, especially those involved in their lives. The disciplinary techniques employed in these camps are different in purpose and thus in their nature from the ones I have discussed here that draw on uncertainty as a theme.

In the camps, immediacy is the most important factor in determining when and how discipline is applied. All camp officers, but especially noncoms, namely the barracks sergeants, are equipped to discipline those inmates who misbehave; discipline tends to be carried out immediately.

CPT Nicole, who was Commandant of Hergolia Camp, regarded as the most rigorous of the retraining camps and now Commandant of the Disciplinary & Retraining Unit of the Corrections Service, recently briefed me on disciplinary practices in the retraining camps.

"When I started out as a barracks sergeant," she informed me, "I had a medium-sized whip and a saddle strap on my utility belt. Believe me, I used them frequently, especially with men undergoing retraining for offending their wives or 'responsible women.'

"Most often," she recalled, "they were whipped for trying to stare up our short uniform skirts. The skirts were intentionally short to test how well these men were able to resist their impulses. I found that swift swats on their behinds with my whip served to focus their attention where it belonged, not on my bottom or panties."

Clearly, this was one situation where there was no need for uncertainty in exercising appropriate and immediate discipline. CPT Nicole also filled me in on how punishments are administered in her current unit, which mostly retrains corrections officers, almost all of whom are women, who have been referred to the unit to be reeducated and then given a chance to show that they have learned how to function correctly and effective as corrections officers.

"In this realm," she observed, "it is also important to discipline those who need it promptly and directly. We don't want them to be uncertain as to how they will be disciplined. Instead, we want them corrected so they can refocus their attention on learning how to serve effectively in their positions."

I've included this discussion to emphasize that all of my consideration of how effective uncertainty can be in making discipline successful applies to situations in marriages, households, and families. There remain the occasions described so well by CPT Nicole that require sharp, immediate responses to misbehavior, and this need must be given precedence in these instances.

Comments on this article are welcome.