I don’t remember ever being spanked as a girl either at school or at home, but I developed an almost obsessive interest in such punishment during my early teens and eagerly questioned my friends on whether they had ever been smacked. As far as I know, corporal punishment had not been used in my Girls’ High School for many years, but a few girls were spanked by their mothers – usually with a hair brush or a leather strap on the bare bottom.
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