Her board meeting was running late. Very late now. This mildly annoyed you, of course, but you understood that sometimes work has to come first in her position, and it is not like you two had massive plans. Just a quiet evening together. There was also the fact, of course, that you generally tried not to tell her off - she normally got things her way, and things within your relationship were no exception. Sometimes you would take a firm stand over some issues, but an occasional delay at work (even one you would have appreciated a heads up for) was not one of them.

You actually started to get a bit worried (not that anything bad could have actually happened, of course) but the time your phone chirped. “Hi, sorry, I don’t know when I’ll be back…” the text said. “… They introduced that policy. I cannot believe it. I need a moment to myself to process this.”. Without thinking, you type ”what policy?” (unlike her, you don’t bother with capitals in texting quite as much) but manage to stop yourself. You know what she means. She mentioned it before, except she framed it as a doomed to fail idiocy. Specifically, the policy was to allow corporal punishment application to some employees… Which, she said, some people on the board want to in practice translate to “a few women they want to take down a notch”. Basically to have them strapped or caned on their bare bottoms, like if the office time travelled a century back. She found them pathetically hilarious, of course, a boys’ club trying to live out some weird fantasies, as did you… Only now it seems that was quite a misjudgement.

“Are you okay”, you text instead. It’s probably a stupid question, but beats not knowing what her message was about, at least. Your screen shows she’s typing. Then not. Then typing. Then she isn’t again. Finally a short reply comes through: “I’m fine. Just sore…. And need to figure this out”.

Hello all,

As you can tell, the prompt concerns my character, a woman dominant in her workplace and daily life, suddenly facing the reality of being corporeally punished at work, painfully and humiliatingly. The play will then focus on how she and you, her partner, deal with that. Are you supportive and comforting and try to help her fight against it? Do you use this chance to bring her down a notch in your relationship too and take her over your knee at home? Do you perhaps actually work in the same place and you get to see her punished or even have to do it yourself?

Another option would be that you’re my character’s adult son/daughter, but in that case please note I’m only interested in humiliation, not in incestious sex.

Speaking of sex - while it obviously might feature, the play will not be focused on it but on the punishment and reactions.