The only thing that surprises me is what you say about the birch. I have read accounts of birchings at Eton in relatively modern times, and the victims saying that although the ritual was humiliating, it didn’t actually hurt much more than the cane; there is even an account of someone who was birched by a court in the isle of a man saying that he’d had worse at school. My theory is that the English school birch was really a spanking weapon: one whack of the birch didn’t hurt very much, but the idea was that the victim got a large number of light strokes which left him very sore indeed.
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Witnessed School Paddling16
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Too hot to handle1
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Georgina of the Fifth34
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The Rules of Corporal Punishment 6
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Aunty Sheila’s Slipper Punishment7
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Corporal Punishment and The Caning Experience82
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The Cane in UK Schools63
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