Sophie Fennington
Sophie Fennington is a former spanking actress and one of the most popular British fetish models of the eighties and nineties. She has been hailed as Britain's first true star of the spanking video genre and has been greatly missed by CP enthusiasts since her early retirement.
Modeling and acting
Her modeling career began after her husband Christian sent some amateur spanking photos to Janus magazine in London. Sophie was then hired for a "CP Tease" photo-story for Janus issue #53. This was enormously popular with readers and led to two more appearances in issues #54 and #60. In 2012 and 2013, two special issues, Encore Janus 5 and Encore Janus 6, reprinted a complete set of 154 photos taken for the Janus #53 shoot.
Offers to appear in spanking videos followed. Her first video was Veronica Takes The Rap. Most of her videos were directed by Michael Dawes. All were produced in the U.K. and distributed in the U.S. in the nineties by California Star. (Christian Fennington would also become a fixture in the U.K. video industry playing disciplinarians in dozens of videos.)
Sophie Fennington's other video titles include:
- Veronica Takes The Rap (Raincoat Productions/Tallion, 1983), Christian Fennington
- Her First Experience (Tallion, 1984), rerelease by Spanking for Pleasure
- Diary of Discipline (Tallion?/Punished Girls), compilation, photos
- Painful Promotion (Tallion/Spanking for Pleasure, c. 1985), Christian Fennington
- The Flogging of Lady Constance, a.k.a. Lady Constance (Spanking for Pleasure/California Star, 1990), Christian Fennington, Victorian era period piece loosely based on Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Room Service (Tallion, c. 1985), Christian Fennington
- The Caning Competition (Tallion), with Kate Westbrook
- released by Cal-Star as English Spanking Classic #35: Poolside Punishment & Caning Competition, also available from Bottom Marks.
- Lisa Must Be Caned (Tallion, 1984), photos and description
- Corrective Therapy Trilogy (Tallion/Spanking for Pleasure, 1986), Penny Wise, Josephine Scissons (aka Katy Robinson)), Christian Fennington
- released by Cal-Star as English Spanking Classic #7: Corrective Therapy Trilogy
- Fennington photos, OTK video, caning video, Scissons photos, Penny Wise photos, Penny Wise video
- Canings and Cold Showers (Tallion, c. 1992), Christian Fennington, released by Spanking for Pleasure as The Caning of a Flight Officer (photos)
- California Star reissue as The Caning of Flight Officer Fennington (description and photos)
- English Discipline series (California Star), reissue of Caning & Cold Showers paired with Victorian Interlude
- English Spanking Classics #1: Sophie Fennington Interviews (California Star), reissue of Paradox interview plus Caning & Cold Showers (preview & photos, Xhampster video)
- English Spanking Classic #35: Poolside Punishment & Caning Competition (California Star), preview & photos
Compilation videos:
- Carry On Caning (Spanking for Pleasure), Vida Garman, photos
- A compilation of extracts from Farmhouse Flagellation, Just Desserts, College Classics 3, A Mutual Agreement & The Caning Competition
- Carry On Spanking (Spanking for Pleasure), photos
- Interview With Sophie Fennington (Paradox), includes scenes from Lisa Must Be Caned, Corrective Therapy, The Flogging of Lady Constance
Legacy
Fennington was quick to achieve celebrity status in the fetish community through a combination of looks, appealing personality, and ability to receive severe corporal punishment from a variety of implements. The blond beauty had an innocent, girl-next-door look and soft demeanor which was ideal for playing the ever-popular uniformed schoolgirl, waif, and nurse roles in films and magazine photo-stories. In this regard, she could be seen as the U.K. counterpart to the similar-looking Kiri Kelly who was the first fetish star in the U.S. during the same time.
Fennington's daughter Vivi Fontaine is also a fetish model, professional submissive (pro-sub) as well as a full-service escort. She books private corporal punishment sessions through the website AdultWork.com.
See also
- List of spanking actors
- List of spanking video producers
- Spanking video
- Spanking videos on the Internet