Robert A. Heinlein and Spanking

Was the greatest writer of the 20th Century, Robert A. Heinlien, a kinkster or spanko? I'm not sure ... but there are certainly allusions to spanking, whipping or other CP in almost all of the Master's works. On this web page, I have attempted to put together something of a canonical collection of such references for your enjoyment.

Time Enough For Love - Variations on a Theme II

[Describing beatings inflicted by upper-classmen on plebes at West Point]

This may strike you as nothing much, Ira, but I'm not speaking of paddlings children sometimes receive. These beatings were delivered with the flat of a sword or with a worn-out broom that amounted to a long, heavy club. Three blows delivered by a grown man in perfect health would leave the victim's bottom a mass of purple bruises and blood blisters. accompanied by excruciating pain.

Time Enough For Love - Variations on a Theme III

[Senior to ship's computer Dora]

"But if you whomp up some fake emergency to get my attention, I'll spank you."

Time Enough For Love - Variations on a Theme IV

[Senior to Hamadryad]

"Granddaughter, if I weren't so old and tired, I would spank you."

Stranger in a Strange Land, Chapter V

Jill shut up. The notion that she, who had never experienced anything worse than a spanking as a child and an occasional harsh word as an adult, could be in danger was hard to believe.

Stranger in a Strange Land, Chapter XVI

[Miriam] "I think I'll have hysterics now."
Harshaw grinned. "You do and I'll spank you..."

Stranger in a Strange Land, Chapter XIX

Miriam whispered: "Boss - did you sprain your back doing those hand stands night before last?"
"Quiet, girl, or I'll paddle you."

Stranger in a Strange Land, Chapter XX

[Jubal] "... Once - just once - I underrated my mother's power to punish impudence. That lesson was cheap. But this planet cannot afford such a lesson on a planetary scale. Before we parcel out lands which do not belong to us, it behooves us to be very sure what peach switches are hanging in the Martian ktichen."

Stranger in a Strange Land, Chapter XXXV

[Jubal] "I'm going to spank Jill!"

Stranger in a Strange Land, Chapter XXXVI

[Jubal to Becky] "You keep heckling me and you'll find you're not too big to spank."

Citizen of the Galaxy, Chapter Two

He put it brutally, never mentioning that the law in application was rarely so severe ... If the master were a commoner, he might also get a flogging if the judge believed him to be actually as well as legally responsible for the slave's misdeed. Nevertheless Baslim had stated the law: since a master exercised high and low justice over a slave, he was therefore liable in his own person for his slave's acts, even to capital punishment.

Citizen of the Galaxy, Chapter Twenty-One

[Leda] "I still have trouble believing that there is such a thing as slavery,"
[Thorby] He shrugged. "Ten lashes will convince anybody."
"Thor! You don't mean they *whipped* you?"
"I don't remember clearly, But the scars are on my back."
She was very quiet on the way home.

Citizen of the Galaxy. Chapter Twenty-Three

Thorby wanted to hit him but, although the guards let go his arms when they shoved him in the room, his wrists were tied.

Uncle Jack stopped smiling and glanced at Judge Bruder.

"Thor, you've never appreciated that Judge Bruder and I worked for your father, and for your grandfather. Naturally we know what's best. But you've given us trouble and now we'll show you how we handle little boys who don't appreciate decent treatment. We teach them. Ready, Judge?"

Judge Bruder smiled savagely and took the whip from behind him. "Bend him over the desk!"

Thorby woke up gasping. Whew, a bad one!

Friday, Chapter VIII

[Brian] "Stop joking. Stop this instant! Or, so help me, when I get you home I'll paddle you. Majorie, I've never laid an ungentle hand on you - or any of my wives. But you are earning a spanking."

Friday, Chapter X

[Janet] "... Now ... are you going to stay? Or am I going to have to hide your clothes and beat you?"
[Friday] "I don't want to be beaten."
"Too bad. I was looking forward to it."

Friday, Chapter XXVIII

As a youngster she was no meaner than any of the others and the usual moderate ration of spankings was enough to straighten her out.

Please note, in addition to the references given above, I am aware, having seen the movie, that there is a spectacular bulwhipping scene in "Starship Troopers", however I don't have a copy of that book to hand so I am unable to give an exact quotation.

In addition, there are also some scenes in "Friday" that are more in the realm of serious torture / interrogation than mere spanking. Do they belong on a web page entitled "Heinlein and Spanking"? Perhaps not ... but you're bound to be curious now that I've mentioned them, so I'm going to have to quote them anyway:

Friday, Chapter II

Somebody had put the mattress back on the bed. Mac guided me to it, told me to lie on my back with my arms out. Then he cuffed me to the legs of the bed, using two pairs. They weren't the peace-officer type, but special ones, velvet-lined - the sort of junk used by idiots for SM games. I wondered who the pervert was? The Major?
Mac made sure that they were secure but not too tight, then gently spread a blanket over me.

Friday, Chapter II

Look, you! If you are ever questioned under pain, do scream. The Iron Man routine just makes them worse and it worse. Take it from one who's been there. Scream your head off and crack as fast as possible.

I am not going to give details of what happened during the following endless time. If you have any imagination, it would nauseate you, and to tell it makes me want to throw up. I did, several times. I passed out, too, but they kept reviving me and the voice kept on asking questions.

Friday, Chapter IV

All my hurts were repairing.

They hadn't been all that much: lots of burns, four broken ribs, simple fractures left tibia and fibula, multiple compound fractures of the bones of my right foot and three toes of my left, a hairline skull fracture without complications, and (messy but least debilitating) somebody had sawed off my right nipple.

The last item and the burns and the broken toes were all that I recalled ...

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