Rock - Paper- Scissors

One of the extraordinary phenomena to suddenly appear on the WWW in recent times seems to have originated in China. The first videos to appear seemed to be based on a very simple format. A boy and a girl play a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors (I'm going to assume everyone knows how that works). Whoever loses has to bend over and the winner delivers a single whack across the loser's bottom with an implement - often fairly cane-like. From that simple concept, a whole genre has developed with ever more complicated scenarios.

There are some 'translation' issues. There's the fairly common one of people using the word 'canning' instead on 'caning'. Some also refer to the target area as being the back - it really isn't. If they say back they mean bottom. As the genre started experimenting with other targets you will also see people referring to a target area being 'thighs' - all the ones I've seen it's actually the calves that are being targeted.

The protagonists are quite interesting - the guys all seem to be very casually dressed. The girls seem more varied. One or two seem to be in some sort of uniform as you might see behind a reception desk at a hotel or office. Those in leisure clothing are in just about any type of costume you would see in a city - long trousers (some very body hugging) or jeans, a lot in very short shorts or very short miniskirts. The guys tend to be - well, let's say a bit chunky. The girls are almost all very attractive, slim and on the petit side (which works very well for my tastes).

Slim and petit they may be but they are fierce. I've seen dozens of these videos by now and although everyone seems to be sticking to just a single stroke in each round, everyone seems to put everything into delivering the 'punishment' as hard as they possibly can.

In terms of locations, a lot seem to take place in a rooftop garden. Some are on riverside walkways and some just in the street. Quite often they attract one or two onlookers but nobody seems troubled by that.

Implements have varied quite a lot as the genre has developed - implements that look like canes have been supplemented with plant branches (sometimes with a lot of foliage still on) and pieces of scrap wood. It's testament to the no-holds barred approach to the delivery that it's quite common to see pieces of the implement breaking off on impact. They've also tried some different position such as lying down on a couch or across something else and that's quite often when the implement being used is plank-like and can be brought down vertically on the target.

Inevitably, when the girls in short skirts get whacked across their bottoms, it sometimes causes the back of the skirt to lift. On occasions the girl is wearing a pair of lycra shorts under the skirt. but other times the video has been edited to briefly censor the image so we don't get to see her panties. The vast majority of 'punishments' are to the loser's bottom but you will see that while most are well delivered, a few are a little inaccurate and some would say dangerously high

When the girls lose, they often pretend to not want to take up the position but they are usually laughing and do fairly quickly comply. The guys seem to take up position more quickly but the guys and girls all react quite strongly to the pain of the impact - quite often the girls seem close to tears and often slump to the floor. Implements are held a long way back, brought down as hard as possible and there appears to be good technique with a flick of the wrist to maximise the effect. Usually after about twenty or thirty seconds of hopping around and rubbing their bottoms the girls just snap out of it and go into super angry mode to challenge the guy to another round and they look really overjoyed when they win and can order the guy to take up the position. And I've said it before but it bears repeating - when they get to whack one of the guys they put everything into it and I'm quite sure that just about every stroke I've seen whether from a girl or guy would be excruciatingly painful.

Variants have inevitably come in - there seems to be quite a lot of interest in using elastic bands or different sorts and some of those are applied to the feet or even face. Then there are scenes with more players. At a very simple level they're still easy to follow. Say there are two girls and one guy. The Rock-Paper-Scissors game is usually played by the guy and just one the girls. If the guy wins both girls bend over to take a whack each. If they're win, the guy bends over and gets a whack from each of the girls. However it has become much more complicated and there are more and more participants and more getting involved with the Rock-Paper-Scissors - the be honest, I'm struggling to decide how they determine the outcomes.

Another interesting offshoot from the original videos is the emergence of what are called Screaming Chicken parties. These typically have about half a dozen participants and a marked off area about the size of a boxing ring. One participant is blindfolded and armed with an implement - often something like a belt. The other participants have squeaky toys (usually chickens - hence the name) attached to their shoes. When the game starts, the blindfolded one tries to find the others and lashes out at them with his implement while they try to keep out of his way. If they have to move too quickly, in panic that they're about to be caught, they risk making their squeaky toys betray their location. What makes these games really interesting is that sometimes participants deliberately make noises to try to get the guy with the belt searching in the area of one of the others. If the blindfolded one manages to get one of the others they are likely to squeal and make more noise trying to get away enabling him to continue to pursue them - unlike Rock-Paper-Scissors it's not unusual to see one person getting whacked three or four times in quick succession.

There are new 'games' and new variations appearing all the time. What can you expect to see? Here are a few examples of stills taken from some of the videos. 

This first one is probably a classic version of where it all began.