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My Favorite Spanking Scene: “Fraternity Tales”
(Part II)

The Top

Look at that magnificent burly hunk of late-‘80s man meat!
If my memory were better I’d be able to date when this video was originally filmed
based on that green polo shirt. (It could actually be very early ‘90s.)

I have no idea if the original cut of this scene actually
gave these guys’ names, but there’s no mention of it here, and there’s about
three lines of “plot.” The spanking actually starts in less than a
minute after the 14-minute scene starts. Let’s just say I will not be devoting
posts to the “storyline” or set design. Anyway, I’m going to call the
top “Vinnie,” and the bottom “Rob.”

When you see a guy like Vinnie in a spanking video and
you’re experienced in spank porn, you probably immediately think, “He was
obviously cast for his size. But can he actually dominate the scene and dish
out the punishment?”

Yes, Vinnie can. His hand spanking is stellar. His paddling
isn’t quite as skilled, but that actually works out well to extend the scene. I
love hard paddling, but it necessarily shortens the length of the punishment
because of its harshness, especially in porn where bottoms may not actually be
experienced masochists.

More importantly, his imposing size isn’t just for show. His
physicality is an important part of his control over the scene. He actually
hardly says anything at all. He is not the sarcastic, insulting bully like some
of the other Control-T tops. Instead his intimidating strength is used to
control the scene, and it works really, really well. I’m going to have an entire
post devoted just to the physical dynamic between Vinnie and Rob. It’s so
important to why the scene as a whole is a favorite for me. There isn’t a point
in this scene where you don’t feel as though Vinnie isn’t entirely in control
of Rob and is the one deciding how long the punishment will last. Without a
sense of Vinnie’s strength and size, the scene wouldn’t be successful playing
out like it does. I’ll explain more when I analyze both the OTK spanking and
the paddling in separate posts.

And while he isn’t particularly demonstrative, there are
moments when he has Rob over his knee when we see flashes of a grin (check the
third image). He is enjoying spanking Rob, though Rob is not in a position to
see this, which makes it all just a little bit hotter. Rob doesn’t even know
that Vinnie apparently enjoys it when Rob squirms and Vinnie has to use force
to control him.

Between the spanking and the paddling, Vinnie takes a moment
to strip off his shirt, and the camera lingers over his body. This is very
interesting and something that is rare in spanking videos, particularly these
days. We are invited to eroticize the sadist in this scene. As I mentioned in
Part I, typically emphasis on spanking videos is focused on the bottom and his
attractiveness. But there are parts of the video where Vinnie’s form is
permitted to dominate the frame. We are encouraged to lust after the man
administering the punishment. That’s what I mean when I say that Control-T
videos also feel like they had the fantasies of spanking bottoms in mind as
well. I don’t know if it’s intentional or not, but it’s definitely worthy of
note. We see the eroticization of tops in BDSM porn, but not often in spanking-only
movies, unless there is a reversal and the hot top ends up getting spanked,
too. That happened sometimes in Control-T scenes, but not always, and not in
this video. Vinnie is never not in charge, despite being an object of viewer lust.

The final detail that puts it over the top for me for loving
Vinnie as a top is that he chews gum for the entirety of the scene. No, really.
It seems like a silly thing, but there are two subtextual consequences. One: It
emphasizes Vinnie’s casual control over the scene. He can keep Rob under his
physical control, despite Rob’s squirming, and not have to spit out his gum to
focus. Two: It lends an odd sort of workmanlike normalcy to the spanking. Like,
this is just a thing that Vinnie does every day. No big deal. Another day, another
ass to blister. That’s a pretty hot concept if you like the bully top trope.

For Part III we’ll look at Rob’s role.

(All screenshots from “Fraternity Tales” by
Control-T Studios)

Part 1: The Studio