I am from Singapore, though unlike many of my peers I was never subjected to corporal punishment by my parents, and indee… more

When I was eight years old, my mum suddenly became very ill and was subsequently diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. I w… more

While in my second year at uni, I began going out with a girl I’ll call Andrea, and in our mutual third year we moved i… more

Many of your contributors, I notice, say they find it hard to pinpoint exactly where their fascination with the act of sp… more

During the 1970s, I attended a private Catholic girls school in Yorkshire. It was run along pretty traditional lines, a… more

Your contributor’s recent account entitled Tears In The Toilets made me think of an incident which happened to m… more

I was raised in a pretty middle class family in Scotland during the 1980s. My parents were pretty liberal, and although I … more

I was brought up in a very loving Irish Catholic family during the late 70s and 80s. Unusually for such families, I was an o… more

I really like your website. I am a (female) cleaning and maintenance operative at a large mall in the midwest of the US. No… more

I am now what most people would consider an old lady, but nevertheless I enjoy reading your website as it brings back wond… more

Growing up in the 1980s, my sister and I spent a lot of time over at the house of our widowed grandmother. After my grandpa d… more

I was born and raised in a village in the north east Highlands of Scotland. The primary school I attended in the 1960s is no… more

I really enjoy reading Maman and have a story to share. This is a little different perhaps to some of your stories as it con… more

I was brought up in a comfortable middle-class home during the 1970s and although corporal punishment was still very co… more

You might think that the practice of smacking, particularly in the UK, had more or less died a death. I certainly thought … more

My older brother and I were brought up in a fairly upper middle class household during the 1960s, and like many parents of … more

I’m an old man now, but I was born into a wealthy family in the early 1950s. Our family firm’s name is one that … more

I served in the US Navy for eight years, most of that time in a shore-based role in Norfolk, Virginia. It was during this ti… more

My younger brother (by two years) and I were brought up in the 1980s, when spanking was still a fairly common method of kee… more

Because I was an only child, I think my mother in particular was keen to make sure that I wasn’t spoilt, and althoug… more