I Don’t think I need to recount again minute procedural details of my formal six of the best with a slipper which I got as a girl in senior school in London UK in the sixties.
I don’t hold a grudge against the male PE teacher who administered it.
It was for a known offence, known also at least to the Deputy Head (female), and I was expecting to be punished once I knew I had been found out.
The form of punishment was common/appropriate for the times, related to the offence and the circumstances and no more or less than anyone else would have got in a similar situation.
It was administered properly, with explanation, effectively in private, and I accepted the process.