I know that with the tawse – some were made to sit on a desk with their short trousers / dresses or skirts rolled up to expose the fronts of the legs. The hands were then tawsed above – if you moved your hands – your legs got it instead.
” There is no flesh on the fingers and precious little on the palm so I really feel that method should have been outlawed long before caning was banned altogether.”
The hand is an extremely verasatile tool with an extraordinary ability to perform really quite complex operations. Its construction too is complex involving numerous small bones, blood vessels, nerves, ligaments, skin, muscles and joints, a true wonder of nature. So let’s hit it with a stick shall we? ! !