The Fear Factor

Hello everyone.   I’ve been a member for a couple of years and have read through many interesting posts but have not really contributed that much.   A post a few days ago on the  survey on the front page said …not many UK people posting…so my conscience twinged and said its time to put my thoughts out there !!

One part of this corporal punishment that does fascinate me is the fear factor building up in one’s head.  From hearing the vivid storys from your elders of the cane when just a nervous new kid at school, to the threats from teachers to send you to the headmaster, it all built up in your head.  But was it really as bad as percieved when you eventually did finish up in the headmasters office, (as most of us did) bent over to receive a thrashing.    I can remember the exactly words he said to me 50 years ago ………Have you been caned before’….’No Sir’……’Well you’re going to be now, stand over by the wall and bend over’……….but I cant remember the pain so vividly described by others.  I can remember going back to class and a few class mates whispering …..Did u get the cane, how many ?…..but again, I can not recall like many others can the tales of not being able to sit down threw the throbbing pain.  Should add my crime was talking to a mate during assembly whist the headmaster was up on stage talking.  Not exactly the crime of the century but I guess the headmaster was in a bad mood that morning, I had certainly committed far worse misdemeanours and escaped the cane !!
It was certainly a huge turning point for me though as the fear over the next couple of years became mixed with an urge to repeat the visit to the Heads office.   The whole ritual became a fascination and from a fear of being caned as a young kid,  by the time I left school the seeds had been sown of a new found love of the cane.  By my final year at school as a 16 year old I was actively trying to make a return  visit to the Headmasters office for a repeat dose. The fear factor had subsided and a new found curiousity was burning inside me.
But back to the original heading, the fear factor , the dread of the unknown before that very first caning, !!!    So my question, did your first caning put the fear of God into you, was it as bad or worse than expected and did you vow never to return for a repeat or did it have the opposite effect as it did on myself and hold a curious fascination to repeat the adventure, so much so that I now frequently play in the adult fetish scene .  (I think on one of my very few previous posts I mentioned about the adult fetish schoolie scene much to the amazment of another poster, Yes!! there’s quite a few of us playing and still being frequently caned, LOL  and when Covid subsides hopefully again soon !!!)
Should add though, that original fear I spoke about at the start as a young kid who had never been caned, and had heard all the frightening storys will never be recaptured !!

I’m pleased that this aspect of SCP has been addressed. The cane and slipper acted as a effective deterrent and that was simply because they were applied with the purpose of preventing a repetition of the behaviour that necessitated their use. They were designed to hurt and in that respect fulfilled their purpose. If you were sent to the head for some misdemeanour you knew that your chances of talking your way out of a caning were extremely remote. If you were escorted to the headmaster office by a prefect or master you would have to wait outside while the reason why you were there were explained to the head. Often you would then have to wait outside until you were summoned and the wait was awful. Your stomach would turn somersaults and the fear would gradually build. Once inside you would be informed of the head’s decision on the severity of your punishment and your details would be entered into the punishment book. At this point it was the sheer inevitability of what was about to happen which was awful. You would then be told to bend over and if you were lucky you would have been able to read the number of strokes from the punishment book. The strokes were hard and designed to really hurt and they didn’t disappoint leaving your backside well marked and throbbing.
I have seen many boys standing outside the head’s office with a forced smile on their face but everybody knew it was just bravado. I was caned about 5 times starting in the first year and the last time was in the lower 6th. I didn’t like it one bit but looking back it was effective and at least it was over quickly but don’t let anyone tell you they weren’t afraid of being caned.

Hello Red_Bum,

And welcome back.  It is a great pity that you have been absent for so long.

You wrote above:

(I think on one of my very few previous posts I mentioned about the adult fetish schoolie scene much to the amazment of another poster, Yes!! there’s quite a few of us playing and still being frequently caned, LOL  and when Covid subsides hopefully again soon !!!)

Alas the other poster whose mind you caused to boggle has not contributed for some time.  I am however fairy confident that the mind boggling will not have been a contributory factor! 

Our more recently joined members may possibly be interested in your previous contributions, which are to be found in the thread which you originated  here, with its additional information on what you term ‘the adult fetish schoolie scene’.

I have of course an ulterior motive in linking the thread as I am inordinately proud  of my picture links matrix in the final post which worked despite the primitive BBCode which Tapatalk imposed and which was such an unfavourable contrast to the HTML and CSS which the Forum’s previous hosts, Netscape, had permitted.

Thanks AL for finding my original thread.   I actually tried to find my previous posts, all 9 of them  !!  but couldn’t work out where to locate them.  Or do I need to be a super duper advanced member to have access to such records.

Hello Red_bum,

No, ‘super duper advanced member‘ status is not necessary to access someone’s previous contributions.  If it was I certainly wouldn’t be able to do it! 

While I often moan about Tapatalk that is just professional jealousy really.   It is actually a very feature rich environment with a great many very useful features available to all members of a Group or Forum.  ‘Super duper advanced members‘, or VIP Members as Tapatalk calls them, have access to even more features, such as being able to bump a number of posts per month up in the access order and other exotica, but to attain that status you have to pay money, and I am far too mean!

Some notes on facilities available to all may be useful and will hopefully answer your query.

To find your previous posts I simply accessed your profile summary by double clicking on your name in the contributor identity column.  In your profile summary the Avatar symbol is followed by your name and then by various information.  This information differs slightly depending on a contributor’s past record, whether they have any ‘likes’, whether they have ‘liked’ any posts etc.

In this instance what I was interested in was your number of posts.    Clicking on that number takes me to a list of all your posts, most recent at the top, oldest at the bottom.  In the case of some users there may be a great many pages of posts to be loaded before the oldest post is reached, but the process can be short circuited by clicking on page numbers.

As of last night you only had 9 posts and I was able to see that with the exception of the latest they were all in the thread I linked.  I use a rather involved link, but simply copying the URL from your browser address box and pasting it into your contribution will give a link to that page.  In this case I linked to the first page of the thread, and the normal facilities then enable the rest of the thread to be followed.

If you wish to link to a particular post simply right click on the post number (the number preceded by # which appears at the top of the post) and select ‘copy link location’ or whatever equivalent nomenclature your browser uses.  That will put the URL of the relevant post into your clipboard and you can then paste it into your contribution.  When someone clicks on that link the relevant page of the thread will open at the post concerned.

There would have been other ways of finding at least one of your posts.  I could recall for instance that you had contributed on Whipstock Grange.  Tapatalk provide a very efficient Forum search engine, accessed via the ‘magnifying glass’ symbol at centre right of the top right of the index page.

Putting +whipstock +grange as the search pattern and specifying Red_bum as the author would have taken me to this page showing the two posts in which you wrote ‘Whipstock Grange’.  Note that like mainstream search engines, unless you are absolutely certain that capitals would have been used it is best to stick to lower case in search patterns.

When using the search engine, although other parameters including author name are available, all that is necessary is a search pattern.  +cane will get you rather a lot of posts though!  

Any questions, just ask.  As I constantly reiterate (though nobody believes me) I am not in the least interested in SCP, but I do like to know how things work!  

Another UK contribution!
The fear factor when i was at school (1970s to 1982) was i think a key component. My first ever corporal punishment was being whacked in front of the whole small prep school at lunchtime. The public setting was looking back clearly to send a signal to every boy watching – behave badly and next time this would be you.
The fear of a first caning was high – other boys told stories which made you feel really scared especially if you were of a nervous disposition already.
The sound of a boy being caned or slippered priduced fear.
And in my senior school some teaches used the “wait” tactic : told you are going to be punished , but dont exactly what form, but it wont be until the next day or worse tell you on Friday to report on a Monday so you had all weekend to worry about it.

Overall though i think making boys scared of getting the cane especially was a deliberate deterrent and incentive to behave well. The other big deterrent was for many kids the fear of your parents being to!d as in a fair few families that led to more punishment at home.

Goodness me AL !!!  You are definetley the go-to man on this board for all the techy stuff.  Yes!! Ive just been to my profile and clicked on my pevious posts !!   Thanks for your help.

Hello red_bum,

The help is available anytime.  If I don’t know the answer I’ll try to find out.

However you have just caused another mind to boggle!  

How on earth can you cope with 50 hard strokes of the cane?  Even the severe judicial punishments found in Singapore, Malaysia etc., don’t go to that extreme.  I can imagine (just) that a few strokes of the cane might be fun.  Perhaps even a few strokes of various punitive implements on assorted target areas.

But 50 hard strokes of a severe implement like the cane?  That’s a tough way to get your fun.  Beats programming in BASIC or trying to learn all the Unicode symbols any day of the week!

I’m a lightweight compared to many in the scene AL. I know many people who play, both professional and their willing subs. I know of ladies both professional and amateurs who can take 100 strokes. The scene is a different world.
When reading through some of the older threads from years ago I noticed a few scene members posting and talking about the meets , party’s and munches. I noticed the well known Lady Pandora used to post on here. To people like that 50 strokes of the cane would be a common occurrence whilst playing. I use the word ‘ playing ‘ and of course it’s all consensual with levels discussed beforehand but there are some players out there who wish to receive a hard judicial caning. I’m a more lighter player though compared to many.

Thank you Red_bum,

Your clarification is appreciated.  You have my considerable admiration!  The mind boggled level remains high, but not critical or life threatening.   I am far more concerned by Tapatalk waging war on my favourite browser via their gate-keeper Cloudflare.

The principal appearances here by Lady Pandora and her fawning adherents were a little before my time.  I didn’t arrive until late 2006, by which time the survivors were being hunted down and eliminated.  Something to do with thin crust or deep pan pizza I believe.  Or was it the question of whether Lady Pandora had been birched as a schoolgirl in Ireland?

I may never know.  I am too indifferent lazy to do the research.

Lady Pandora is the scene equivalent of marmite, she’s either loved or hated. When looking through the old posts on here my heart missed a couple of beats when I realised she posted on here. It was only a couple of years ago that legal action was taken against ITC another fetish site after she libelled a professional disciplinarian over false claims. The site had to place an apology on the front of their home page after the legal action.