In this extraordinary novel Jennifer describes in detail and with painful clarity her Initiation at the hands of the Professor and his beautiful wife. She learns, one by one, the Devices of discipline; the Areas of her body on which punishment is inflicted; and the Positions that she must adopt to receive chastisement.

She soon becomes a willing pupil, and eager to learn; nonetheless her frequent errors earn her extra strokes, and she starts to wonder whether her Initiation will ever end.