Alex spent his formative years pretending to be a respectable stiff upper lip decent Englishman while all the time dreaming of spanking female bottoms, eventually finding outlets for this wonderful desire. He has never fathomed where this urge came from but is eternally grateful for it. He views vanillas with the same sorrow with which Frank Sinatra viewed tee-totallers.

In 1999 he discovered the SSC. A story in 500 words? Impossible! After all even his best friends would agree that he waffles incessantly when given the chance. But then he saw the skill that others employed in such a limiting environment and fell in love with the whole thing. He has been closely and happily involved with the contest ever since. His interests are keenly and pervily illustrated on his blog 'Taste of the Birch.'

Bailey is a "good girl." There are many ways to look at that fact. One possible interpretation is that she is in fact, a good girl. That is, a girl who is good. This is the story that she insists on. In fact if she had her way she would be known as Saint Bailey. There was actually a movement for this once at the World Spanking Forum, but the Pope did not ring in. Others have suggested that perhaps she only appears to be good to those who would punish her due to her supernatural ability to avoid getting caught. Bailey herself feels that either way of looking at the situation is cause enough for sainthood. After all, it takes miracles to behave with so many bad influences around her. It also takes miracles not to get caught. Saints do miracles, right? There is some evidence that she does in fact get caught quite often at SpankingBailey but Bailey claims she is being persecuted unjustly.

Barrister sprang full-blown from the head of Zeus... No, wait, that's my work bio.

Barrister has been around ASS/SSS since October, 1994, and met his wife, Bonnie, on ASS that same year. He is a practicing lawyer who has always fought for the "little guy." He is a switch in orientation and a bit of a pain slut when bottoming. He is going to live to be 100, unless someone rubs him out sooner.

Fiona Locke was stitched together out of parts from the old cemetery. Her bottom once belonged to a lad who was often birched at Eton in the mid-nineteenth century. Rumour has it that she was expelled from Hogwarts (Ravenclaw) for turning up dead once too often. Now she spends her nights cruising the lonely foggy moors in her Daimler hearse. Just don't untie the red ribbon choker she wears...

As a rule, Iris is sweet, charming, and angelic--unless she is grumpy, hormonal, tired, or someone is trying to boss her around. She has an very high pain tolerance and has been told that she could "turn Gandhi into a disciplinarian." Particular pet peeves include arrogant tops, misplaced apostrophes, and hairbrushes used for anything other than mane detangling. She holds a degree in Divinity and only uses her powers for good--mostly.

When IrishRed sprang forth from her mother's loins and the doctor attempted to kick-start her life with a good, swift slap on the backside, she told him "Hit me again and I'll deck yer ass!"

Fortunately, she came to appreciate the feel of hand on bottom (although the hanging upside down part always manages to make her a bit cranky). When not running other people's lives she dreams of being stopped in her tracks by a crooked finger and a sternly spoken "young lady!" She's most at ease in a plaid skirt, standing with hands on head whilst being lectured about her myriad faults--dreading/anticipating the upcoming punishment and wondering why she gets such a thrill out of it all.

In short, she's conflicted. And loving every minute of it.

Winks was the 4th of five children born into a busy household. By four years old, she had inexplicable spanking fantasies, the ever-present reality of spanking being wholly frightening.

When Winks hormones grew up, so did her fantasies, becoming ever more sexual in feeling, but not necessarily in content. She kept her shameful secret well hidden until, in her thirties, she found SSS and came out to her then husband...and eventually came out to everyone in her life who mattered.

Having struggled at length with her erotic attraction to childhood spanking stories, she finally gave up on being a grownup and decided to be a kid again. That kid's tastes in kink have meandered far and wide and now include spanking, bondage and forced feeding of milk chocolate bread pudding. :)

Jen prides herself on being odd, and considers being called normal an insult. After finding SSS in late 1998, she found her true calling as a Painslut, and has worked diligently to keep her quickly won Iron Butt title. She's been known to wear out Tops, and had to find one whose arm never wears out, and instead can wear HER out. Turns ons include leather, heavy canes used for pleasure, and suede floggers used very hard. Turn offs include hairbrushes, heavy canes used for punishment, and the freakin' too thin paddle that will never die. It would if her Top would let her turn it into kindling, but that doesn't seem to be a possibility, so she'll just continue to plot against it until the time is right. Then BLAM!, that sucker will be in a million little pieces, never to return again.

Jess has been fascinated by spanking for her entire life. She actually remembers playing mommy and baby with her best friend in first grade where they actually did spank one another. One day they just stopped playing it and never talked about it again. As a teen, Jess thought she was completely weird and perverted for finding spanking erotic. She wrote spanking stories in secret and deleted them immediately after writing.

One night, while in her dorm room at her little Christian college, Jess typed the word, "spanking," into a search engine. She was thrilled to find that there were many people who shared her spanking interests. That night she read about a billion stories and masturbated to each one until her roommate came home and Jess had to hurriedly adjust her clothing and pretend to be writing a paper.

Now 24, Jess has been a member of SSS for two years and was a SSC reader last year.

Jess' favorite pastime is being an adorable bisexual sub and getting spanked with belts, but her other interests include mystery novels, vampires, Cold Stone, hairbrushes, Ani Difranco, lipstick, sarcasm, and swimming naked.

Jess is a graduate student. One day she will have a degree and then she can educate your children. Does that worry you?

Yes, Jess is single, and yes, she is looking.

The doctor pulled Jujubees from her mother's womb and smacked her on the bare ass triggering her life long passion for spanking. Growing up disguised as the girl next door, it wasn't until the townspeople heard loud hollering coming from Jujubees hovel and went to investigate that they discovered what a naughty girl Jujubees was. The evidence of her reddened ass suggested she had been a very naughty girl indeed. Experts were called in, but no one has ever been able to explain her strange fascination with the macabre, and her fixation with leather, wood, and rattan.

Springing forth from the womb quite abruptly in the middle of a dreadful snow storm, Kate's almost immediate independence and growing intelligence took the world by surprise. After dismissing a therapist at the age of 15 who wanted to fix her "sado masochistic tendencies" she took to them even stronger and has since become a delightfully perverted and full fledged spankophile (among other fetish labels). She enjoys reading, rope, hairbrushes, heavy paddles, and otk canes.

Kessily cannot (will not) be defined. She is at various times: Author, Illustrator, Editor, Immortal, Brat, Top, Submissive, Executive -- and is prone to switching roles at any given moment. She is also the world's only 1500 year old brat. So there!

Kris works in a book store, which is good, since she is such a bookslut she could not otherwise keep herself in reading material. This passion is seconded only by her need for chocolate, and cheap Hershey's chocolate at that.

Born against her wishes but then orphaned by her own hand, Mija is described alternately as "not quite Hitler" and "that sick little hand-tawsing freak." She mourns not being able to dress the part of a gothic lolita at work. She takes out her bitterness by posing as Emily Strange in the hope of being spanked for pouting and by putting callers on hold for long periods just because she can. She feels she has taken topping from the bottom to new levels by embracing the role of submissive fascist. As her hobby, Mija collects writing venues which she then uses to avoid actually writing.

Has secret fantasies where we all call him the Dark Lord.

Is mad in a darkly beautiful way. Behind her modest veil she thinks dark thoughts. Her favorite dream is your worst nightmare.

Sampast found SSS in either 1998 or 1999 (the birth of her two children has caused her memory to evaporate) when she punched 'spanking' into the search engine of Google, and was shocked at the number of hits. Sampast always thought herself to be a goody-goody, always doing the right thing, but wanting to be more mischievous. The characters in her twin stories are based on who she was as a child and who she wanted to be, ie: Robin and Jennifer. Sampast has been fascinated by spanking as long as she can remember, always 'thinking' stories in her head. She was not spanked as a child, but fondly remembers an incident when she was 6 or 7, of being swatted by a neighbor's mother. Sampast works as a teacher and often sees what silly, naughty children do, and so comes up with many ideas to use for stories. Sampast's interests in spanking has changed over the years; first only interested in stories involving children, she now enjoys a good M/F or F/F story, and looks forward to reviewing for the SSC this summer.

If she told you, she'd have to kill you. Actually Sarah lives in a big spooky house full of bats and spiderwebs. She's always aspired to be an evil minion, but being a reader for the SSC is good too.

Has proved her masochism by volunteering yet again. They say only shock therapy could cure her. But she doesn't want to get better.