I don’t personally know anyone of my generation, or even a younger one, who considered that they were somehow being abused when they received CP for some misdemeanour, more a rueful reminiscence. That isn’t to belittle the horrid experience of those who were abused, by which I mean an infliction of undeserved or excessive punishment for the gratification of the person inflicting it (and a creative abuser doesn’t need a stick to do so) but just to emphasis that this wasn’t the norm and that people who wish to see a return to CP are NOT hoping to see a resurgence of abuse but an improvement in behaviour based on their own observations.