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Spanking rituals tend to be exciting, whether it's a preliminary lecture (common in disciplinary scenes)
or calling up the spankee in front of an entire group (rare, but occasionally seen years ago in schools
or at modern spanking partis), and one ritual that's virtually inescapable is bending the spankee over
in some way. Spanking someone in a standing position or lying prone on a bed is never very satisfying
because you have poor access to the target and it's hard to apply either hand or implement, particularly
the latter, without making some kind of error (described in detail in
How to Use the Paddle, Strap, and Cane). Also a valuable
opportunity to embarrass the spankee is being missed. Most of the time we're not going to go to extremes
and make the spankee touch her toes, but even in the popular OTK position we are actually bending the
spankee over our knees. In all cases the buttocks must be turned up and presented for full access.
Bending over, then, is a key part of spanking, and even if it isn't tied to corporal punishment, as
noted above it does present the female derriere in an attractive way so even vanillas can appreciate it.
Most of the examples I'm going to present here are not associated with spanking (except in the minds
of deviant spankos such as ourselves). They basically fall into three categories:
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- Model is bending over for the delectation of the spectators. We've seen many examples of this type in
Humorama Spanking Positions I and II (and will be seeing more in the future!).
- Model bends over causing humorous disruption as the surrounding males are distracted by the sight.
- Spankee bends over for paddling or caning. Such scenes of course are available everywhere so are not the
principal concern of this article, but I couldn't resist including a couple of examples.
Left: Gershwin & Gershwin it ain't, but Andre Wade's "Bend Over" manages to get his point across.
There is no connection between Chicago Style Records (CSR) and Chicago Spanking Review (CSR), but
we must admit the title of this release is certainly one we'd consider if we ever branched out into
the record business.
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Let's get off to a good start with a model who's really asking for it! As she bends over, she
pulls the back of her thin dress taut and arches her back, forcing the material to stretch even tighter
as her rear end is thrust out. It shows exactly why the spankee should be bent over, and really makes you
want to give her a good hard swat with a wood paddle  !
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We extracted one frame from the animation to allow a closer examination.
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Now let's see an example from a typical day at the office. The guy with his arm leaning against the
microwave oven doesn't seem to be getting much done, but on the other hand he's in a perfect position to
observe this young secretary in a short skirt as she bends over to fill her cup.
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Tech-savvy readers will want to know that this is frame #10 extracted from the animation. 
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We've heard of "Order in the court" but bending over in the court? Our lady litigant here is trying hard
to make her point (she's even standing on tiptoe) but the judge doesn't seem too impressed. Of course if any of
us were in his position, we'd no doubt order the bailiff to bring us our paddle (who needs a gavel, anyway?).
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This pose, of which we're particularly fond, will be familiar to CSR readers
who remember
Humorama Spanking Positions I and
Humorama Spanking Positions II
(in fact I'm sure I'll include it in Volume 3 of that series). Our unnamed model faces away from the camera and
bends over, stretching her bikini bottom nice and tight and providing an excellent target for the paddle. This is
clearly a Bunny Yeager photograph, although she was uncredited in the June 1951 issue of Good Humor.
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We turn now to The Benny Hill Show, which has been mentioned many times on CSR. One of the
more interesting things about his career is that despite his old-fashioned burlesque style
of humor, which featured a lot of bending over (hence his appearance here), he was never
that successful as a stage performer. But he was a fixture on British television for over
twenty years and his show was hugely successful in syndication, particularly in the U.S.,
Australia, and Japan.
I first caught Benny on a Chicago television station in 1980. My young jaw dropped
when I saw a pretty girl stop and bend over right in front of him as he sat at a table
at an outdoor cafe. What the hell was this? (We'll see this scene as our first example below).
Clearly, this was a show worth watching !
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I didn't even own a VCR back then (few people did), and I did not begin recording the show until 1992,
when Benny was being shown on a different Chicago station - WGBO. That was the year he died, as it happens,
and WGBO had the decency to post an "In Memoriam" message when he died (above). In 2005, I transferred
my old Benny tapes to DVD and this is the source I used in extracting the following "bending over"
incidents as video excerpts. Unfortunately, they are far from high-definition, being recorded on VHS twenty-seven
years ago from a rather weak signal, but it's the best we can do without access to better source material.
(And like a lot of shows done by Thames Television in those days, Benny was taped, not filmed, resulting
in a rather low-quality appearance even when it was new - think of Dr. Who during the 70's, for instance.)
In our first example, "Gavin Blod," Benny relates the life of a not-too-talented musician. In this scene,
Benny is playing someone who knew Blod back in the days when he was in Vienna. This, as I mentioned
above, was the first bending-over scene I ever saw on the show, and to this day, when a young lady (one I don't
know and am not about to spank, I mean) bends over in front of me, I murmur "Danke schön" under my breath
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(The player above should work with most browsers, or download the video
here).
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Benny #2: Benny often did a vocal number - one he would write himself - with risqué lyrics.
His normal backup group was The Ladybirds, seen briefly here singing "Awooo! Awooo!" in response
to Benny's "Oh, bend down girls, touch your toes-" well, hear it for yourselves.
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"Bend down girls, touch your toes, I'm gonna show you where the wild goose goes - think about it, will you?"
asks Benny.
(The player above should work with most browsers, or download the video
here).
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Benny #3: This is a generally funny spoof of "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau" which was
a widely-shown documentary series in its day. I well remember seeing it on 16mm film in the school gym
back in the 1960s. The crew is researching the mystery of the forward-walking crab, but becomes
distracted by a pretty native girl. As Benny puts it, "They couldn't wait to get to the bottom."
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(The player above should work with most browsers, or download the video
here).
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Benny #4: This is a rather strange parody of The New Avengers. Benny does a very fine
impression of Patrick Macnee as John Steed - indeed, Macnee said that Benny's performance reminded
him how to play the role which he had originated in the 60s but had not played between 1967, when the original
Avengers series was cancelled, and 1976, when the sequel series was launched. (That dates this sketch
to 1976).
I've made this a rather long excerpt to include the two scenes just before the one we're most interested in.
Steed, Purdy, and two hospital employees (played by Rita Webb and Henry McGee)
are apparently playing strip poker using patient charts instead of playing cards, which is a
wonderfully bizarre idea. Purdy loses to Steed's hand of four enemas ("A royal flush") and is
about to pay up by dropping her pants when the scene cuts abruptly
to a different room - rats!
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The bending over occurs in yet another scene that takes place in a library. It's difficult to describe,
so I'll let it speak for itself. For scholarly purposes, I have repeated the critical part in slow motion so that
it may be more easily studied. 
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Purdy loses at strip poker and must pay with her shorts - too bad it wasn't a spanking. I can't positively identify the
actress playing Purdy, nor the one who bends over in the library. (The player above should work with most browsers,
or download the video here).
And by the way, there are (or will be) three semi-spanking scenes from the original Avengers in the
Video Section.
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Benny #5: Another one that's hard to explain to younger readers. Benny based this
sketch on the difficulty television stations used to have in broadcasting movies that
had used the widescreen process (TV in those days used a 4:3 ratio, not the 16:9 ratio we have
today). The idea is that the TV camera operator has to fish around for the action, while
truncating a good part of the picture. That leads to a focus on the derriere of an
actress I can't identify (but was in some other sketches I remember) as she bends over
the car trunk.
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"It looks so nice with the sun shining on it." (The player above should work with most browsers, or download
the video here).
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Benny #6: With this one we're back to the old "Bend over the files" gag so familiar to CSR
readers from the Humorama cartoons. This time I was able to identify our very cooperative actress as
Teresa Lucas because I remembered she had been part of the dance troupe Love Machine, whom
Benny had invited to perform on his show before the days of "Hill's Angels" as they were eventually
known.
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Teresa Lucas bends over the files, causing Benny to lose count. (The player above should work with most browsers, or
download the video here).
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Benny #7: One of my personal favorites of Hill's Angels, Abigail Higgins, looks
so fetching as she bends over in her purple panties (or knickers, as the Brits would say) that
she even distracts Benny the newscaster watching her (in some strange way) from the TV studio.
Then she has the good sense to bend over again to turn the TV volume down, allowing us to
appreciate the view she had given Benny. Lord, what a spankable behind!
I do wish she had bent over a bit further, though.
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The lovely Abigail Higgins distracts Benny Hill by bending over. The other gag is that Benny has reached
out through the TV set and taken a bite of her pastry, mystifying her when she picks it up at the end of the clip.
(The player above should work with most browsers, or download the video
here).
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Benny #8: This is probably the best gag here. It's a variation on the time-honored
"Bend over, get a swat" routine we have commented on many times in the past, but with
some typical Benny variations. Benny, having already caused a commotion at the hotel's front
desk with a fountain pen, now signs the register with a different pen and lets it go, causing
its elastic to contract and turning the pen into a missile headed straight for the bending-over
buttocks of a girl (whom I can't identify) wearing polka-dotted pants.
The pen finds its mark, and the outraged "spankee" straightens up, rubs her behind (love this bit!),
and then slaps the short guy next to her thinking he was the guilty party. In a true Benny touch,
after she explains her action to the guy's date, she slaps him as well (this happens quickly so
watch for it). This adding of insult to the injury of an innocent party was a kind of almost cynical
humor that Benny did very, very well. In fact, there was another example of it in Benny #7 above but
I didn't include it in the clip because the sketch was so long. At the end, Benny the newscaster has
been shot, and seeing him slumped at his desk, Abigail says disparagingly, "Look at that - drunk again."
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Bend over, get shot in the butt with a flying pen. Nice job bending all the way down with knees straight
by an actress whose face is obscured by her hair. The vocal is by Eddie Buchanan, who did the more "serious"
singing (as serious as anything was with Benny), Benny himself of course doing the less-serious singing as we have
already seen.(The player above should work with most browsers, or download the video
here).
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Benny #9: this is the "silent movie" type of sketch Benny often did, in which the
story is told without words and generally with the movements speeded up. In this one, Benny
plays a poor suitor who is turned down by his girlfriend but then achieves wealth and returns to propose
marriage to her (Sue Upton, probably the most important of Hill's Angels and certainly Benny's favorite,
seen here seated on the couch). But just as he unveils
a huge engagement ring, the maid enters with a bottle of champagne and bends over to
retrieve a serving cloth. The cork blows out of the bottle, symbolizing Benny's new-found lust
for the maid with the cute behind, and the chase is on.
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Bending over leads to chaos. I cannot identify the actress playing the maid. The girlfriend is Sue Upton while
the butler is played by long-time Benny supporting actor little Jackie Wright. (The player above should work
with most browsers, or download the video
here).
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Benny #10: This is similar to #9 in that it is another of the "bending over leads to mishap"
type of scene, and it is another "silent movie". It does however feature the most extended actual
bending over of all these sketches. The gag is that a carpenter is so distracted by the
sight of our unknown actress bending over he mistakenly saws through his table, causing it to
collapse - a gag we'll see repeated in #11.
The actress's face is not shown, and I'd guess she requested it be that way because of the nature of
the shot and the semi-transparent black panties she's wearing (which you can see through if you
look carefully - I've helpfully made this easier by repeating the critical close-up in slow-motion).
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The longest of the bending-over bits, repeated in slow-motion. (The player above should work with most browsers, or
download the video
here).
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Benny #11: the same gag as #10, but less-prolonged. Our bending-over girl wears short-shorts
instead of panties. I have not been able to identify her.
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(The player above should work with most browsers, or download the video
here).
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Benny #12: Erica Lynley was well-qualified physically for her role here, in
which she must bend over and adjust Benny's TV because he refuses to get one with a
remote control. Benny's expression in answer to her irritated observation is absolutely
priceless - a lesson in how much an actor can convey without saying anything. I wish her
skirt had been a little shorter, though.
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Erica Lynley bends over for us, and displays (among other things ) a bad attitude
that deserved a spanking. (The player above should work with most browsers, or download the video
here).
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Benny #13: Benny's show this time featured his view of what Irish television might look like. One
program was the Irish version of Kojak, "O'Jack", of course featuring Benny himself as Lt. O'Jack.
Once again a maid must bend over to pick something up (in this case a magazine). This scene
does give us a very nice viewing angle and Emma Bryant bends down beautifully, carefully
positioning herself facing away from us and keeping her knees perfectly straight. Like many of
Hill's Angels, she had been a dancer, which may have something to do with it. Henry McGee
plays Crocker.
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"She's a pretty little lass" (the second meaning being "She has a pretty little ass") - typical Benny word-play.
Emma Bryant should have gotten a special award for bending over so beautifully in
"O'Jack". (The player above should work with most browsers, or download the video
here).
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For convenience, I have made an unedited compilation of all the Benny Hill video segments
here. It is in MP4 format for easy playing on home
computers. Because I took it from the raw digital source it doesn't have the slo-motion repetitions.
End of Part 1.
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