I’ll never forget the first time I was taken upstairs by my father to be caned. This was in the 1970s, and it was still both a common punishment in school, as well as in some stricter homes – like my own.
I had been given the occasional smacked bottom by my mother when I was a really little boy (just her hand across the seat of my trousers) but things changed about a year after I started school, so I suppose I’d be about six.