Hi Six of the best, I must admit that I didn’t really get a what I would describe as a tanning from my Mum. It was just a few quickly applied slaps across the seat of my shorts on a handful of occasions across her lap. The real tannings I got over my Dad’s knees with his hand and slipper. He smacked harder and gave more smacks, and the rubber sole of his M&S slipper, soon hit home.

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Hello CathyG,

In your contribution #22 above your new text has somehow become mixed up with the quoted text,  When I view it initially the quoted text is rolled up as usual and only the actual quoted  portion is visible.  Your new text does not show until I click to expand the section, when it becomes visible.

As you raise an interesting and possibly contentious issue I trust you will not object if I quote your new text here, for benefit of anyone who has not noticed the problem with the new text being merged into the quote.

You wrote:

Thanks.  I have been doing a lot of traveling and visiting during the Covid “reduction” which is now back on the rise.  I will soon have some interesting comments I have have been told over these past several months.  One involves a woman, just a couple of years older than I, about how she now assumes her late husband was a closeted gay person and how after he died she found several notebooks and the like containing hundreds of drawings he made of boys being spanked.

Sexual preferences are a very personal thing and there would not often be a reason for mentioning them here.  However I can entirely understand why you have done so in this context.  I would though say that unless the lady concerned has other evidence she should not necessarily assume that her deceased husband was gay on the basis of drawings of boys being spanked.

Many years ago when I joined the Forum there were a substantial number of male contributors who, like me, were quite interested in the topic of girls being subjected to SCP.   A rather smaller number of male contributors were interested in the topic of boys being subjected to SCP by female teachers, or in being so punished themselves, also like me.

Today many of the contributors from that era no longer post and a new generation of largely male contributors provides much of our input.   I don’t think I would be doing these new contributors an injustice if I say that they are largely interested in males being subjected to CP, either themselves when young or other boys who were their contemporaries.

And when it comes to boys being specifically punished by female teachers, or a wish to have experienced this, or better still to have been caned by a female prefect, I am now practically a lone voice crying in the wilderness.

But I think it would be very wrong of me to assume that because these new male contributors are largely interested in boys being subjected to CP, often CP administered by other males, they are predominantly gay.  I would be absolutely amazed if that was the case!

Women who experienced SCP tend I think to consider it as a punishment.  A fair or unfair punishment, or possibly even something delivered with a sexual motivation.  But not as something in which they take pride and from which they or other girls accrued status in their peer group.

For males however being subjected to CP, and indeed seeing or knowing of other males being so subjected is (or was) often a matter of considerable interest involving battle honours  of a sort.  Self esteem peer esteem and esteem given to peers  could all hinge on the question of who was whacked and how.  I repeat, I simply don’t think that inferences regarding sexuality should be made as a result of an interest in boys being subjected to CP!

Another_Lurker:

Women who experienced SCP tend I think to consider it as a punishment.  A fair or unfair punishment, or possibly even something delivered with a sexual motivation.  But not as something in which they take pride and from which they or other girls accrued status in their peer group.

I’m sure that’s true in general, but there are exceptions. One was “B”, the girl who I saw being slippered in class when she was seven or eight years old. Three years after that incident, when we were ten or eleven, we were in he school assembly one morning when the headmistress announced to the school that she had been “forced to chastise” a girl who had been warned repeatedly about misconduct. We were all sitting on the floor at the back of the hall, and B turned to her neighbour and said “that’s what I got”. She was clearly expressing pride in having been punished, and expected her status to be enhanced.

(Obviously the punishment that B had received didn’t work. She’d been slippered for talking in class, and now she was talking in assembly …)

Hello CathyG,

I cannot decipher your contribution #25 above.

As you are one of the Forum’s most senior contributors, one of its very few female contributors, and a certified supporter of the Forum I hope that my response to the comment made by your contact did not offend you.

Hello CathyG,

Welcome back!  It is great to see your above contributions and I hope that your return to regular visits will not be long delayed.

This scenario happened in Huddersfield at Greenhead High School in the mid-1970s. My wife was in the penultimate all-girls intake before becoming a mixed sixth form college in 1973 but the female head resigned/retired in 1971 so it had an interim male headmaster before a permanent headmaster took charge in 1973. Thus the number of lower school girls was reduced year on year until the final intake left school or went into the sixth form, but for four years or so girls being sent for the cane were dealt with by one or other of the headmasters.

However being a “posh” girls school I am told this was a very rare event and only the few out-and-out rebels would face the cane (on the hand, of course). But it did occasionally happen. (This was explained by my wife and I talking to a friend about school standards and my wife referring being “sent to the headmaster”!)