I grew up in the English county of Yorkshire in the 1970s, a time when smacking and corporal punishment was still very much the norm. I was no stranger to a sore bottom as my mother was a firm believer in its benefits, and CP was still also used at school.
As I say, most mothers smacked back then and it was not uncommon for mothers of friends to be given permission to spank you if you misbehaved while round at their house. I knew that my mother had given such permission to at least four or five of my friends’ mothers, often telling them: “If Adrian misbehaves when he’s round there, please don’t hesitate to smack him.”