However, her girl companion who had never been caned before showed all the symptoms she herself had suffered when about to get it for the first time.
I can’t imagine how my girlfriends and classmates who were caned by our female Deputy Head managed to keep their hands out.
(luckily I never got it) If you burn your hand on a stove the body makes it pull away automatically.
It must take tremendous willpower to take more than a couple of strokes in a genuine punishment situation.
I remember asking one of my friends about it when she had had six (three on each hand) for repeated smoking.
She managed to hold out her hands, but she did say they shook an awful lot both before during, and after the caning.
I remember her hands were quite severely bruised for some time.
