But what if I had believed in the efficacy of CP? I once asked myself whether, if I had sincerely believed in the merits and morality of corporal punishment, and hadn’t enjoyed administering it in the way I did, I would have used it more often, less often, or about about the same. I spent quite some time considering this, including examining many actual cases of slipperings I had handed out, and the inescapable conclusion I reached was that in many of those cases, I would not have used corporal punishment. That is not to say that the punishments in those cases breached the rules, because they didn’t, strictly speaking. But if I approached those cases purely from a perspective of what the purpose of CP was supposed to be, including the deterrent element, I would have simply given mere warnings to many of those girls, instead of the slipperings I did give them.
Corporal Punishment References from Buy Gone Days22
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The Cane or Anarchy3
I want to know if he was taking this medication at the time he snapped, and what it was....
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Fluids of Discipline7
Then she suddenly hit my butt at centre with the cane. I screamed, but she pinched my thigh, ordering...
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Receiving Corporal Punishment as an Adult out of Curiosity4
My school exposure to CP (or perhaps, more accurately my lack of exposure!) seems similar to schoolboy rog. I...
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Corporal Punishment and The Slipper7
At my Prep school ( UK home counties, 1954-60 ) minor offenses in the dormitory which did not...
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Memories of Corporal Punishment22
I don’t blame anyone for being misinformed about these matters. The performance of the meeja has been consistently a...
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Edwardian Prep School Canings29
Generally, the caning took place in the form-masters’ studies, and required the boy to take down his trousers and...
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Caned by the Prefect2
I was 13 at the time, and happily my offence only merited lines. I’d been late for a lesson,...
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The Headmaster’s Study6
The school was comprised of a mixture of very old and very modern buildings. The original old building, which...