I’d like to relay some smacking memories from my own childhood – for the sake of anonymity, I’ll refer to myself as ‘Bobby’ if you don’t mind. Although a girl, this was my childhood nickname, so it does at least have some authenticity about it while protecting my privacy. I was born in 1955 in […]

I know you get frequent stories from those of us raised within the upper echelons of society – here is another! I hope to sound less stuffy than some: I’m not a rich, conservative lady who married into more money, had a son and daughter and immediately sent them off to boarding school. I’m a […]

Your recent excerpts from Victorian novels, and discussion of birching in the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, reminds me of an early recollection I have of juvenile judicial CP being discussed. I was about four, and a pupil at a church Sunday school. Apparently, some of the church’s windows had been vandalised and I remember two mature […]

I have been inspired by other contributors to put fingers to keyboard. Here is my spanking journey so far – names have been changed, although I doubt the teachers in question are still with us. Mrs Hardy was the first. Up until the age of seven, I do not recall any discipline worth mentioning. Also, […]

Swats a-plenty Many years ago now, I spent a year working in a school office as an assistant secretary. One of the duties of that job was to be a witness for corporal punishment given to students who were in grades 8 to 12. There had to be one male and one female witness present for all students […]

I am pleased to have found the courage to finally tell you my own story. In Canada, schools used the strap – but it wasn’t like the leather ones used in British schools. The Canadian school strap was made of a thick plastic-like material which stretched and wrapped around your hand. Most of my teachers […]

I grew up in the 1950s in midwest America and, as you might imagine, the spanking of naughty children was commonplace. From an early age, whenever I saw a spanking portrayed or mentioned on television, it aroused hidden feelings in me. I remember our grade school teacher spanked all of us on our birthdays at […]