A kinky teacher? I suppose that is true, although until now “kinky” had never been a word I had considered applicable when pondering why things developed the way they did during my earlier years. But I can say with complete honesty that prior to the beginning of my teaching career, I had no such “kink”. I didn’t even know that it existed in society generally until much later when I finally discovered, with a mixture of amazement and relief, that I wasn’t the only one who felt the way I did.
Before the single event that was to change me forever, I had absolutely no interest in corporal punishment. I had no reason to have any such interest; I attended a single-sex school at which, although CP was practiced, it was never a dominant feature of school life, and I was never even once on the receiving end of it.