By the time I was 12 (in the late 1970s), I no longer considered myself to be a child, although of course legally I was. I was in my second year of secondary school, and was having ‘big boy’ thoughts. Some of those thoughts included rather confusing fantasies about women in positions of authority smacking my bottom. I could not understand why I should crave such treatment, and due to the nature of these thoughts, kept them very much to myself.
School punishments were mostly detention. A few pupils had been caned, the norm being, as I recall, two strokes per hand. I was only ever punished once, with a whole class detention, and the more attractive women teachers became the objects of my fantasies.