I have long been obsessed with the subject of corporal punishment – specifically, being spanked in a motherly, matronly way, over the knee with a slipper. This obsession began quite early in my childhood.
After what my mum described later as ‘some odd behavioural moments’, there was talk of taking me to see a child psychiatrist. I didn’t want to go, but I knew this thing in my head was starting to affect me and not in a good way.