I grew up in the UK in the 1970s and early 80s, when corporal punishment was gradually getting less common in school – but was still widely used by parents in the home. I was certainly no stranger to a trip across my mum’s knee for a soundly smacked bottom, my peak spanking years being […]

I’m now in my mid-40s and grew up in England when ethnic troubles were still simmering – my mum is Kenyan and my dad English. Smacked bottoms at home were not a regular punishment, but were occasionally administered. Mostly, though, it only took my dad’s firm voice – or ‘the look’ from Mum – to […]

I wanted to follow up from my last story from the early 1980s, when I was very nearly caned at school but instead ended up receiving a very public bare-bottomed spanking from my mum instead. At home, Mum was very much the disciplinarian, and both my sister Emma (three years older than me) and I got regular […]

One day during the summer I turned 12, I was hanging out at my best friend Annie’s house, listening to music and giggling. I started to feel the need to go to the bathroom for a number two – but at that age I was extremely shy about such matters, even in front of a […]

Maman special feature As a special thank-you to all our visitors, we’re now making the first part of this fascinating historical study free to view for everyone. Anyone with an interest in cookery of any sort will have heard of the renowned Mrs Beeton. You may have heard less of her husband – a publisher […]

When I was in the second year of grammar school during the late 1960s, I had the misfortune to be introduced to the headmaster’s cane. I was one of three boys sent to Mr Taylor following a pre-lesson classroom fight which left two of the wooden chairs broken. Ironically, me and the other boys hadn’t […]

My most memorable spankings from mommy occurred when I was a young boy growing up in the midwest during the late 50s. Spanking of children was normal and expected then, and pretty much all the kids in our neighbourhood got them. I had a sister two years my senior and we were both chastised pretty […]

When I was growing up, my dad’s sister Beth and her daughter Ruth lived next door to us. Aunt Beth was a widow – her husband had been killed in a road accident when my cousin Ruth was only a little girl. My dad took great care of them always, and we were very close. […]

When I was young, my mom kept what we called ‘the spanking stick’ in a kitchen drawer. It was a polished piece of wood whose purpose should be obvious from its name. It was about a foot and a half long. One end was narrower than the other for maybe a third of its length, […]

I grew up in one of the countries of Eastern Europe in the 80s and early 90s. Spanking had already declined here a bit, compared with the 60s and 70s, but it was still very prevalent and most children I knew had been spanked at some point or the other of their childhoods. We did […]