The Training

Jason has a business degree, a dead mother, and a girlfriend he intends to marry. Kristen has a family farm, a church that still believes a husband is the head of a household, and a backside that has answered to her father since she was a girl. When Jason asks for her hand, he learns that a father’s blessing and a wedding date are not the same document, and that Reverend Brown will not stand in front of the congregation until a traditional family Training is complete.

What follows is a summer of instruction in a house that does not hide its work. Elaine, Kristen’s mother, runs the Training herself, and she is thorough. Jason learns the hand and the hairbrush, the kitchen spoon and the working belt, the heavy paddle and the willow switch he cuts himself in the back lot with his trousers around his ankles. He learns that a spanked bottom reddens for a reason, that a woman’s body answers correction with heat and wetness that no one in this family pretends away, and that a man who cannot take what he dishes out has no business dishing it. Kristen learns the same from the other side, over his knee and over her mother’s, in a parlor where her sisters watch from the doorway and her grandmother watches from the good chair.

The Training widens. Heather, the married older sister, comes back for a night her thin file never gave her. Dorothy, the grandmother, takes a switch and then takes Jason on a quilt while her daughter watches with two fingers inside herself. Sarah, the widowed aunt, arrives with a mouth full of jokes and leaves without them. Reverend Brown reads the notes, finds them thin, and threatens to correct Elaine himself in front of the congregation, which sends her over her husband’s knee in front of her own children.

This is a book for readers who want the implements named and used, the warmup honored, the sit spots covered, and the comfort given by the same hands that did the hurting. It is a book about a household rather than a couple, where the daughters watch from the hall and the grandmother says the word fuck at the breakfast table. The door Kristen is saving stays shut until a wedding. Everything else is on the table.

This book contains explicit M/F and/or F/F erotic spanking, hand, hairbrush, wooden spoon, belt, paddle, and switch discipline, bare bottom punishment over the knee and bent over furniture, witnessed spankings, intergenerational instruction, genital and breast punishment, oral and penetrative sex, delayed gratification, and graphic sexual content between consenting adults.