When the eighteen-year-old intelligent but nerdy college student, Henry Talbot, attends a party at a frat house, his life is forever changed after he meets the exceedingly tall, beautiful Barbara Hopkins, a fellow student and basketball player.

Initially stunned that she should take an interest in someone like him, he begins dating her but during a meal at a restaurant Henry embarrasses Barbara when he is especially rude to the waitress attending their table.

Following the meal, he is given an ultimatum, either he allows Barbara to spank him for his bad behaviour or their relationship is over. Henry readily accepts her punishment which she delivers using her hand and a hairbrush, and although painful, it is clear that he is also sexually aroused by it. He is further humiliated when Barbara insists that he apologise to the waitress and even worse, show her the proof that he has been spanked.

Thus begins a female led relationship with the dominant Barbara who disciplines him with a variety of spanking implements including hairbrush, paddle, cane and tawse, whenever he steps out of line or doesn't meet her expectations. And it's not only Henry that participates in such a relationship as several of his friends later find themselves being subjected to rigorous discipline from their dominant girlfriends, who are often encouraged by Barbara.

Later, when Henry is introduced to Barbara's parents it becomes all too clear where Barbara gets her dominant tendencies from as her mother, Caroline, is very much in charge of the household, as Henry discovers when he spies her disciplining her own husband in the study.

Having spent some months together, the couple announce their engagement - it looks like sitting comfortably may be a thing of the past for Henry!