Fiona Philips, former presenter of GMTV, is firmly of the belief that one teacher at school who slippered her repeatedly got a kick out of it. She said in an interview “I was regularly bent over his desk and slippered and I hadn`t even done anything. But there was a glint in his eye. It was serious. He never slippered the boys, it was always the girls.” There is a thread on this here