When I was in eighth grade, it was a popular thing for girls to try and get away with stretching the dress code a little. Skirts a bit too short etc. Now, my mom would never have let me leave the house dressed in that way. But, as many girls before me had done, I […]

I had a strict upbringing in a religious household, and I was generally a good, pious girl who aimed to please my parents. I loved getting praised for my schoolwork, the chores I was assigned around the house or for helping out with church activities. The downside of this, however, was that it made me […]

Maman special report Back in the day (well, the late 90s/early 00s to be a bit more precise), a rather eye-catching advert ran regularly in certain select publications. These adverts were for The Rod. The Rod was pretty much a modern-day successor to the cane – a 22in long dowel made from flexible nylon, with […]

When I was a junior at high school in East Texas in the 1980s, I was paddled for leaving the campus without permission. During lunch break, I decided to get into my car and ride to the local gas station. There I filled up my tank and picked up a couple of soft drinks. Upon […]

I grew up in the north of England and attended Sunday School until the age of 11. There was a group of around six of us. We met in the church vestry during the main service and were supervised by Miss Mason, a lady of about 50, who wore glasses and had dark, shoulder-length hair. […]

During the 1980s, when I was in the third grade, I got a paddling from my class teacher. Some tattle-tale of a kid had apparently told the janitor that I had done something bad in a bathroom.  In turn, I tattled on another kid for doing the same thing that I had been accused of […]

I think I would be about six, in my second year of primary school in the UK, and this was the mid-70s. As I mentioned in an earlier story on your website, I was a rather timid little boy, and generally very good for his mummy and obedient to other adults in authority over me. So […]