We are a married couple from Brittany in France. Although we are a very compatible couple, we come from far different backgrounds.

I am the only daughter of a very modern couple, who were very permissive with me and open about everything in life. I was hardly ever even verbally rebuked for misbehaviour as I grew up, and I was certainly never spanked.

My husband Jean, by way of contrast, is from a very traditional Catholic family and is the second youngest of eight children. He was definitely brought up to be a ‘mummy’s boy’, with very strict discipline throughout his childhood.

This discipline definitely did involve ‘une bonne fessée’, as we say here, from time to time. Jean’s mother kept a martinet for use on her off springs bottoms, and he and his siblings were regularly whipped to make them behave. The child in question would be tucked under mother’s arm and whipped across the bottom and upper thighs with the martinet. It stung very much, Jean tells me, and would leave red weals on their skin for hours afterwards.

The reason I know all about this is really due to the effect it had on my husband, and the part corporal punishment now plays in our life. Very early on after we were married, if we saw children out with their parents who were misbehaving, Jean would mention later how that child lacked discipline, and what his mother would have done had the child in question been hers.

I noticed Jean would go back to this subject of childhood discipline. I eventually coaxed him into talking about what had happened to him as a boy.
I called him a naughty boy and said that I would have to be his maman from now on.

After this, I regularly put him over my knee like a naughty child for a spanking.

After a few months, I managed to find a martinet in a local pet store and brought it home to show my husband.
I had him bend over to be whipped, and I thoroughly enjoyed using the martinet on him.

Because of my husband’s fetish – which is now also mine, I must say – we were both very wary about having off spring of our own. Fortunately, I am a career-minded woman and that fitted in with my aspirations too, although I think Jean’s parents are disappointed we never gave them grandchildren.

Even today, I am definitely Jean’s maman. I spank and whip him when he is naughty or grouchy.