So, I think part of the search for this elusive badge of respectability was for our parents to emulate what they thought happened to the naughty offspring of the upper classes, given that their parents paid large sums of money from them to go to strict, private schools where the cane was freely in use.
It was no doubt this factor that led to my own mother purchasing a proper rattan punishment cane for me and, believe me, it was put to very regular use across my bottom during my formative years. Of course, I had been given ordinary ‘smacked bottoms’ over her knee when I was a younger child, but being told to bend over for the cane was on a whole different level as a punishment.
A Stroke of Respectability3
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