I must say I’m envious of the number of boys who managed to get caned wearing sports kit. It never happened to me. I was often caned wearing shorts, but that’s only because I was in the former colonies, and we wore khaki shorts all the time. Also, getting caned over a vaulting horse – with black satin footie shorts! – that’s more exotic than anything I could have dreamed of. I was obviously living in the wrong country.
But I did get caned by a middle-aged woman when I was about eight – while wearing khaki shorts, natch. I reckon that’s exotic, or semi-exotic. But not erotic. If I’d been wearing black satin footie shorts, it might have been both.