HARDEST. Artur, the Master’s sub, demonstrates the difference between HARD and HARDER as No Mercy for Men practices it. HARD comes in a game with bath brush and paddle that Artur seems to control but which teases his expectations and exaggerates his pain. HARDER binds Artur to the spanking where powerful strokes of prison straps, belts and wooden paddles can be compared. Artur ends with the dark agony of the tawse where the pressure of sheer numbers of blows takes the term HARDER to its limits and beyond.