I hope I will be forgiven for slightly veering away from the original meaning of this thread title, which was how those being slippered reacted, by looking at how those witnessing such slipperings may have reacted. And, predictably, you might say, I want to concentrate on how boys may have been affected by witnessing their girl classmates being slippered.
I don’t think anyone here would disagree with the assertion that an adolescent boy witnessing a girl in his class being called out to the front and made to bend over for a severe slippering or caning, could be turned on sexually and permanently affected in that way by his experience. But what about the other ways in which girls were slippered or caned in mixed schools? I refer to the private or what I call semi-private punishments of girls.