For what its worth my view is that six strokes doesnt hurt six times more than one stroke or any multiple thereof. For me some of significant differences are : It is easy to imagine the sensation of one stroke. Close your eyes and think about the cane hitting your bottom. It hurts doesnt it. […]

I found that when the first stroke landed across my buttocks it took a second or two for the sting to develop, and the same went for the second stroke. By the time the remaining strokes were administered my buttocks were searing with pain. The pain could be maximised by leaving a good 2-3 second […]

In the case of the cane, The first two weren’t too bad (that wasn’t true when I got my final “six of the VERY best” though. ), the third was when the pain really started to kick in. I wouldn’t say the fourth was beyond “Ouch” (unless the strokes crossed) but it was quite a […]

In my school, canings tended to be two, three, or four strokes. I can’t recall hearing of anyone getting just one with the cane. In class, one with the slipper wasn’t unusual but two was far more common. Five was totally unheard of in both cases though, it seems to be absent from the English […]

I was caned seven times during my schooling, my first caning was three strokes, the second was three, the third was four strokes, the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh canings were all six strokes. Six strokes hurt significantly more than the other canings I received, even more so as I was older when I received […]

i think i reached my saturation point after one! That first stroke was always a real shock to the system at least for me. but when i got my 6, after the first three strokes the rest was a bit of a blurr, the remaining strokes just seemed to pass by quicker than the first […]

It’s something that is probably impossible to quantify – but even if each stroke of the cane was only 50% more painful than the stroke that came before it, stroke number 6 would be nearly 8 times as severe as stroke number 1, and overall, 6 strokes would equivalent in total pain to over 20 […]

Girls may be much the same as boys but I have no data on this from my school days as girls were not caned. They rarely committed canable offences and were, in any event, consider much too delicate to be caned. There were no Jennys around to defend their rights.   It is difficult, if […]

  I have insufficient personal experience to comment directly but understand there are two schools at least. In the first school there is saturation before six is reached. After the first few strokes the buttocks are hurting about as much as they can so subsequent strokes hardly register. It is unclear whether the acute pain […]

I never received the magic six, but in the third form I got two 2 stroke canings and one 3-stroke caning. In the fourth form I got one 3 stroke caning and one 4 (4 of the best) stroke caning. Going on my experience of that four of the best I’d say that six strokes […]