General Correspondence from Our Readers

General Correspondence from Our Readers

A MORE DIRECT APPROACH From Dennis

Miss Susan MacDonald,

I know you like the petticoating of the male, and its end results. Why the deception on the woman's part of it? I feel that if you
like a male, be it a young boy or a husband, including teenagers, then why don't you come right out and tell them, ' I like my men or
boys in petticoats. I really think they look very nice in them. I find that after a male being, child or adult, has been trained in this
fashion they are far better gentlemen than those that do not experience this type of training. Why should we waste that beauty just
on the women or girls?'

This is more of a direct approach, and, I think, a more honest one. The young boy or man you are in charge of will do his best to behave himself so he will not have to wear girls' clothing, if he dislikes it. Now he knows what will happen if he does not behave. Sometimes the threat is just as effective as the actual act.

On the other hand if they like you idea and are willing, it could be fun on both parts: yours and his. This, I feel, avoids hard feellings on the child's behalf or the adult's behalf.
Best wishes,
Dennis

To state the case so directly would do no harm, and it makes it quite clear what the response to any naughtiness will be. Of course most males very qickly come to love the feel of their tights and petticoats, and after that you will have no problems whatsoever.

THE PEACEFUL THERAPY OF PRETTY LADIES' UNDIES From John Dear Susan,

What a divine pleasure finding your sweet little site.

As a life time devotee to wearing ladies undies, you can't imagine how pleased I am to see other like-minded enthusiasts.
Sadly in my 50 years I have never found anyone prepared to keep me in frillies, but I do so agree that this regime will make a
more placid and understanding hubby/baby. Living alone as I now do, I keep myself to a strict regime of wearing pretty ladies' undies at all possible times. In my feminine attire I become 'Brenda', the girl my mother wanted, but never had.

I never miss a night in a pretty full length nylon nightie. The peaceful feeling of feminity ensures a good night's sleep, and a more
pleasant persona during the day. Whilst not wanting to go into extremes of bondage, I think a light night restraint is therapeutic, and certainly no access to private parts should be allowed to an errant man.

With the longer nights, and increasing noise pollution, I would recommend the night time wearing of ear muffs, and eye pads to
further calm and soothe the baby in your life. I can’t offer any actual experiencies of being petticoated or babified, but would welcome any correspondence from like-minded enthusiasts.
Love and Peace,
John
john117@lineone.net

This letter makes a very good point, one that I have made - being thoroughly petticoated and fussed over is very relaxing and therapeutic for many males, and I trust that more wives have become aware of these life-giving benefits from reading these pages.

WE WOULD BE HAPPY TO SUBSCRIBE From Timmy & Anne

Dear Susan,

Anne has made a great deal of progress with her site and should be ready to put it up by the middle of July. Its wonderful to see how the traffic has grown on your site and must be very gratifiying to know that you've created the very best petticoat discipline site in the world. Anne and I just hope that you will be able to continue with all the work and expense you surely must be incurring to keep this treasure on line. Should that day come when the burden becomes to great and you need paid subscribers to offset your
expenses in producing the site, you may be assured that we, and countless others like us, would gladly become paid subscribers to the site.
Affectionately yours,
Timmy & Anne

Thank you for the kind words! Timmy and Anne are two of my favourite readers, not least because of their deep love of the romance and heroics of horse racing. I will keep readers informed of the progress of Anne's site, which will deal with all aspects of petticoat punishment in an illustrated narrative fashion.

I have had to accept advertising, because with the high costs of managing such a popular site it was the only way I could continue. But I am quite happy with the advertising, which will be well designed and in good taste.

I LOVE RUSTLY PETTICOATS From David B.

Dear Susan,

My name is David Barber and I live in the city of Portsmouth on the south coast, I grew up in the 50s era: what wounderful fashions they were, and still lovely today. My favourites are those petticoats that rustle: paper, nylon or paper taffeta, and full taffeta evening skirts that rustle too, My favourite taffetas are shot and moire, they also must be slightly stiff quality. A taffeta skirt over paper nylon petticoats sounds wounderful. I also love hearing and seeing bolts of dress taffeta scream and rustle in the shop, or dress making stock room, as one bolt is pulled out, rubbing the rest on the shelf, and then more loud rustles as meters are drawn off the bolt. If I kindly may ask, do you know of any other girls online who like the same things as myself?

David B.
davidbarber5@cwctv.net

Do I ? I think you would find plenty reading 'Petticoat Discipline Monthly'. The petticoats of the 1950s did rustle wonderfully, and the rustling is also very much a part of petticoat punishment. For the poor embarrassed victim, the sound of the rustling is almost deafening at times. Thank you for your nostalgic letter, David, and why don't you visit Jackson's of Reading? I bet they have a few bolts of taffeta still on the shelves somewhere!

SISSY SIGNS? From Julie Anne

Dear Susan,

Did you see the television programme presented by Professor Winston - sorry I mean Lord Winston (curtsey) - about gender recognition in children? Lord Winston stated that in males, if the forefinger is longer than the third (or ring) finger, the boy will tend towards being a sissy, and that the opposite is true for females. That is, if the third finger is longer than the forefinger in a girl, then the girl will tend towards being a ‘tomboy’.

Surprise, surprise, my forefingers are longer than my third fingers, and I also have some other female characteristics such as small hands, shorter than average arms for a male, a softer jaw line, and my mistress has commented that I have women’s legs! I have to conclude from all this that not only am I a sissy, but also a genetic sissy! It’s no wonder that emotional scenes on the television and in films always make me cry!

However, Lord Winston did go on to explain that genetics only plays a small part, and that upbringing and conditioning has a far greater influence. Without wishing to clog up your mail box, I wondered how many other sissies in the members of staff, and your readership in general, also have these characteristics, and thought it might make an interesting topic for discussion.
Regards,
Julie Anne

I would have serious reservations about the good professor's theory; it sounds rather bogus to me. If any readers know whether it has been subjected to serious scientific scrutiny, I would be very interested to read about it. I would think that having the index finger longer than the middle finger would be rare generally in people, whatever their inclinations.

A SITE SEARCH ENGINE From William Dear Susan,

Thank you for your courteous reply to my letter in the July issue.I hope that it stimulates some interesting responses. Sarah Fraser would seem to be the type of lady who takes a pride in upholding traditional standards in her mode of dress.This makes a change from the current vogue of wearing trouser suits, et alia.I did try to trace her in previous editions of your magazine, but did not have any success.

May I suggest that the addition of an index or 'search' facility would be a worthwhile enhancement to P.D.M? One of the unfortunate consequences of P.D.M.'s popularity is the difficulty of obtaining access to particular articles, due to the ever-increasing monthly
editions.

Are all letters published in the magazine or only those that contribute a view to the forum? I was just wondering whether I will have to wait until the August edition to know your thoughts about my suggestions.
Yours sincerely,
William

Sarah Fraser in a trouser suit? The mind boggles, and the head swims. Sarah is a Celtic scholar, and the headmistress of Bessbrooke School in Cornwall, where approved pupils are taught the virtues of neatness, good deportment, exacting housework, and quiet, subdued obedience. It is very exclusive and does not have a web site. Sarah's regime is strict, but the place is just an incomparable haven from the noise and hurry of the modern world that her charges are, in my opinion, very lucky.

I think that a search facility on the site is an excellent idea. I will install one, and thank you William for suggesting it.

MORE ON STEAM LOCOMOTIVES From Julia Dear Susan:

I did enjoy the July publication, even though I haven't had time to read it in its entirety. Some of what I read does make me feel somewhat inadequate, with regard to my writing skills.

Also I learned something about locomotives - very interesting. Here in the United States we did develop a means to take on water,
but I know of no way they ever tried to take on coal without stopping. For water they had a trough between the rails. Needless to say it had to be quite long. When the locomotive passed over the trough, a scoop was dropped down and the forward motion of the train would force the water up in to the tender.

Also I'm still anxious to hear how your ankle incident turned out.
Julia USA

I must correct what I wrote about the Flying Scotman. The lorry driving on a special roadway by the side of the rail extended a chute for the delivery of coal, but water was taken into the tender by the scoop arrangement which Julie describes. It took considerable skill on the part of the fireman to lift the scoop away at just the right moment. My thanks to the readers who pointed this out.

My ankle has healed, but is still very stiff. But it will get better. Thank you for your concern, and I hope you enjoy the August issue just as much. The search engine is fun, isn't it?

DRIVING THE FLYING SCOTSMAN From Saffy

Dear Susan,

How delightful to read your article concerning the record-breaking run of the ‘Mallard’ LNER locomotive in the July issue of PDM. Like many readers of a certain age, nothing can replace the charisma of the great days of the steam railways. In many ways I feel sure the national rail network was run in a far better manner than at present, when profit is put before everything else – including safety!

I thought it might interest PDM readers to know that to a certain extent they can now relive their childhood dreams (boys AND girls) of driving a steam locomotive. By now Microsoft should have released their ‘Train Simulator’ onto the market. This gives computer owners the opportunity of driving a number of locomotives along such celebrated routes as the Settle and Carlisle, as well as some US and continental ones. At the moment the steam locomotive featured is the ‘Flying Scotsman’ but no doubt many more will follow in the near future – perhaps even the ‘Mallard’ itself.

Driving the ‘Flying Scotsman’ on the Settle and Carlisle (screenshot)

Driving a steam loco is by no means easy (starting it is not a problem – stopping it is!), although the program allows one to choose the degree of realism of the experience. Of course if you wish you can start with the ‘easy’ stuff first – such as electric and diesel power units. Most modern computers should be capable of running the simulator, although a large hard disk is mandatory – 2 CDs and 1.7 gigabytes of hard disk space!
Saffy

Please book me a ticket (non smoker) as a passenger; an elegant lady sensibly dressed, with a muff and a pretty hat, and a racy novel to read as the telegraph poles race by. And Saffy, I know that you will deliver me safely to my destination.

POSTMODERN ACADEMY SPEAK From Saffy Dear Susan,

You may remember my comments about impenetrable text. Here is such an example, chosen at random from a recent book written by a British academic...

'However, in response to the questions I have just posed in relationship to Puranen's work, one might cite Foster's contention, in his essay 'The Artist as Ethnographer', one of the problems inherent in the assumption that an artist not perceived as culturally and/or socially 'other' has only limited access to the 'transformative alterity' of radical or politicised practice in a given context, while artists perceived as 'other' are assumed to have automatic access to it. He goes on to argue that such a productivist position, which enabled the cultural politics of marginality, has at the same time disabled the cultural politics of immanence relevant to the post colonial global situation, where models of cente and periphery are destabilised'.

or...

'From such a space, cleared between the image itself and didactic assumption, it becomes possible to investigate the ethnographic use of photography and it's authority, challenging the confirming nature of mainstream imagery and both the viewer's and institution's position in that representation. One might premise an alternative, one that might decentre expectancy perhaps through the suggestion of mediating vision and thus open up a critical space 'between' places, given a tactical centrality to undermine the very notion of a centre'.

Sorry I can't contine - I feel my eyelids drooping already...
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

If you can furnish a translation, I would be much obliged :-)
Saffy

I am a woman of scientific inclination (not uncommon in Scotland), and would merely say that this sort of gobbledegook is inevitably spawned by humanities departments, because of their thoroughly justified feelings of inferiority compared with the schools of science and mathematics at universities. The writers believe that this sort of inchoate nonsense will persuade others that they are highly intelligent people.

Ernest Rutherford, the great New Zealand physicist, once stated that if a person could not explain their ideas in clear, lucid English (or any other language obviously), then that person did not really understand what they were talking about.

I don't think anything more need be said.

WARMING MUMMY'S NIGHTIES From David Dear Mistress MacDonald,

Thank you so much for the compliment about my letter. It is gratifying to know that my efforts are appreciated especially since I am years out of practice in the arts of letter writing. Perhaps some refresher school lessons are in order.

I am ahead of you Miss, I do in fact warm Mistress Marion's nighties in the cold weather, but I run them through the tumble dryer for a short while. I used to place them on a radiator but we found that the dryer makes them softer and fluffier, I also do my own nightie the same way. It is a very luxurious feeling.
David

You are very good to your mistress David, and an example to all my male readers. And you don't need any refresher lessons - your letters are excellent.

PETTICOAT PUNISHMENT BY THE COURTS From Pet Dear Miss Susan,

Once again a wonderful edition, what more can I say?
You are right that the experience of assault from the boys taught us a lesson. We did not think about it at the time but the attitude of the policeman left a bit to be desired. It was not that he was unfriendly, indeed he was most concerned. It was that he lectured us on encouraging these boys. It was as if he was suggesting that we had brought it on ourselves, it was a common view in those days, that we must have done something to encourage them. Fortunately we looked 16, I was wearing a bra with padding, otherwise the officer might have arranged to have us taken home in a police car, and that would have been a disaster.

Boys, such as those that assaulted us, should be subjected to petticoating. They should be put into short dresses with petticoats and frilly panties, and be humiliated and shown off to girls. It is a pity that there is no judicial procedure to do this. Living as, and being treated as a girl really does give one a different perspective. I am willing to bet that their manners would drastically improve if forced to wear dresses to school for a week. A traditional gym slip with navy blue knickers would be just the thing. Of course I might be suggesting this because I would have loved to wear a gym slip and navy blue knickers to school myself. I did wear school knickers under my trousers, and had a gym slip to wear at home, but could not use it for school.

I mentioned that the trip out was also my first time wearing stockings. I wore my first tights soon after too, but always preferred stockings unless the weather was cold. The memory of being presented with stockings for the first time is still with me. It was a first for Anne also, and we felt very grown up. One pleasure in life may well have arisen from the incident with the boys. Anne often dresses in trousers. Sometimes, when she has her trousers on, she will suggest that I get on my prettiest dress and satin underwear, complete with stockings. I then will have to act in a very demure fashion, while she will try and seduce me as a man would a girl. I will make a bad job of rejecting her advances, and I have to admit that her hand slowly running under my dress turns me on a bit.

Although I do not as a rule go out dressed now during the day Anne and myself sometimes go for an evening stroll, and of course I spend time in the garden dressed. One of the lovely things about wearing a skirt or dress is the wonderfully cool feeling of a light breeze around the legs and thighs. Most men have not experienced this, and have no idea what they are missing.
Best wishes to you and your staff from Anne and myself.
Pet

Petticoat punishment has been used by the courts in the United States with, I am sure excellent results. It was in Texas, and is mentioned in one of the letters I have published - just try 'Texas' on the site search engine. Life from inside a dress and frilly undies really does give a boy a different perspective, as you point out.

I did like your marital game - it is perfect for a couple consisting of a strong woman and a submissive husband.

THE GLORIES OF A CORNISH SUMMER From Sarah Fraser My dear Susan:

I do indeed hope this letter finds you and your homestead in its usual, well-wrought state of order and happiness. I have noticed you've taken to organising your girls around the dull tasks that bedraggle the literary woman, as you assuredly are, and I am most glad to see some of the burden being lifted by them from your staid shoulders! Do enjoy some spare time for rest, reading, and the incomparable summers that the English countryside provides.

I returned from a fabulous week in Aberystwyth; the library at the university there is most lovely, and the Welsh - much like their Cornish cousins - provide a lyrically sweet sort of hospitality that always sends a thrill through me. Despite this excursion, I am envious of friends who are now making their annual journey to visit family in the Scottish lowlands: I still have relations in Ayreshire, but I do not, however, spend as much time in that area as I wish I could.

Summer is always a bit more quiet at the Bessbrooke School, but I can assure you I don't allow warm weather giddiness to invoke a lapsed attitude in our programmes. I've found that lengthy drills of copying out Latin verb tenses - in full uniform, with swats for each mistake - to be an admirable form of discipline which I've been employing recently, as well as the usual methods that are standard at Bessbrooke.

I was charmed by your reference to my simple self in your publication this month! Its lovely to know that I'm in your thoughts, Susan. And, by all accounts, I do enjoy bloomers tremendously: although not for the sake of sheer anachronism, as some would right say of me. Rather, I find them deliciously comfortable, very well suited to the body,and a dear complement to helping keep a proper drape in long skirts. Yes, I am, as you know, shamelessly fond of the old styles. I think a women of confidence and poise can carry these styles without looking ridiculously out of step, or veering into the appearance of a costumed buffoon.

It is, as in all things, a matter of commitment and attitude to one's own self. Polonius may have been unshapely in his ineptitude, but he had some rather fine bits of advice that defy the cliches of time and culture: 'To thine own self be true...'
As ever I send my best regards,
Sarah Fraser,
Headmistress, Bessbrooke School.

It is always a pleasure to hear from my old Cornish friend, Sarah Fraser, scholar and gentlewoman. And she is both, although I am reminded of an old cartoon that appeared in 'Punch' many years ago: a woman is pictured saying to the hostess of a party, 'I have just met a scholar and a gentleman'. The hostess replies, 'How nice. Would you bring them both over?'

The Cornish summers are indeed balmy and sleepy, and I am glad to hear that Sarah is keeping her pupils on their toes.

A MAN'S PROPER PLACE From John P. Dear Susan,
Fortunate visitors to your high quality site owe you a big 'Thank you' - especially those male readers who benefit from womanly care and discipline. Not for them the repetative tedium of of crude pornography, dreadful grammer and misspelt words, but instead
well-written letters and essays, describing the various methods that women use to hold men within the efficacious custody of petticoat discipline. Almost invariably a man is overawed and made to submit to this form of discipline by a woman, who with the aid of powerful female weapons such as pretty petticoats, frilly panties, filmy slips, tightly laced satin corsets, sheer nylon stockings and high heeled shoes soon has her man firmly in her control, and under her thumb.

Placed under the wholsome restraint of petticoat discipline a man readily accepts that under a woman's thumb and tied to her apron strings is the right and proper place for him to be. In these circumstances he is most anxious to embrace a life in which he is perpetually in the disciplined care of a beloved woman, who will groom and prepare him for the greatest destiny to which he, a man can aspire to, namely that of being a thoroughly dedicated, obedient and docile subordinate of the female sex.

I believe the above to be a fair resume of many of the articles posted on 'Petticoat Discipline Monthly', and does therefore reflect a real, and not an imaginary, state of affairs. That being the case, it is hoped that more and more women will be encouraged to acquire these vital techniques to induce more and more men to meekly accept, and eagerly anticipate, the beautiful and feminine restraint of petticoat discipline.

On that cheerful note one can look forward with pleasurable confidence to the inevitable success and steady progress towards a matriarchal society under petticoat rule.
Yours sincerely,
John

Hopefully we are a bit closer to that day since this magazine first appeared. We have such a hefty circulation now that the message must be getting through somewhere.

MEDIAN AGE OF OUR READERSHIP From Cissy Williams Dear Miss MacDonald,

Thank you so much for forwarding the note from Christine letting me know about her use of the Twelve Days of Christmas game. I
have been away from my computer for a few days and have not yet responded to her, but I will in the very near future. Thanks again
for your help. I am already working on a new game for the next Christmas Issue.

By the way, what is the age of your readers? I think they may be a little older as a group than you might think. If you use the bell
curve, I think the top of the bell would fall into the fifty to sixty group.

One of the reason I say this is because women of the current generation, and particularly young girls, do not wear dresses and petticoats as in years past, and there is not that distinctive a difference in the way mothers dress their boys and girls. This is a pity, but true. As some of your writers have pointed out, Petticoat Discipline almost applies as well for modern girls as for boys.

Just a thought. Keep up the good work.
Love,
Cissy

I have readers from 16 to nearly 90, so I do cover a very wide age spectrum. It is a great pity that girls' clothing is so much less soft and pretty than it once was. It means that girls miss the pleasures of wearing such clothing, and so do boys. Petticoat punishment is more difficult than in the days when it was just a matter of throwing open sister's wardrobe.

AN EXTRACT FROM SHAKESPEARE Hi Susan,

I would like to congratulate you on an excellent publication, I only came across it yesterday, it wonderful. I am a male who has dream of being dressed as a girl since I was a small child. In response to one of your letters, you spoke of two of Shakespeares plays, I am sure you are probably aware of it, but I always found Beatrice's lines in 'Much Ado About Nothing', Act II Scene I 29-35, rather exciting. Particularly when wacthing Emma Thompson as Beatrice.
Anonymous

Thank you for the reference. Beatrice is stating the case for having no husband, either bearded or beardless:

BEATRICE: Just, if he send me no husband; for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening. Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen.

LEONATO: You may light on a husband that hath no beard.

BEATRICE: What should I do with him? Dress him in my apparel and make him my waiting-gentlewoman? He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man: and he that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him...