While I could never honestly describe caning as enjoyable, it is sometimes satisfying in a way and I wonder if that is what Mr Harrison-Mattley was expressing. I’ve just had cause to cane a boy for a particularly nasty little piece of bullying and I can’t think of any other punishment that would have come close to dealing with what he’d done in way that would have satisfied my own feelings in the case, let alone the feelings of his victim, and his victim’s parents. Perhaps more importantly though, I can’t think of any other punishment that would have driven home to the bully himself the absolutely unacceptable nature of what he had done while at the same time also left him in the position that from tomorrow morning we can start again with him, genuinely, having the chance to put the worst decision he ever made behind him