Must try harder

Many of you have been kind enough to ask for some information about my own background, and whether I was subject to corporal punishment as a child – which indeed … Read more

A difference in punishments

It might be stating the obvious, but to anyone raised with spankings during childhood, no two punishments were ever really alike. Spankings are experienced differently depending on the context – … Read more

The power of deterrence

I attended an English junior school during the early 1970s. Corporal punishment was common in that school, in several forms – spanking, slippering and ultimately the cane for the really … Read more

Someone else’s mum

Geoff and I were friends right through school during the 60s and early 70s, and we had similar interests. On one occasion, my mum needed a week in hospital for … Read more

Waiting for my turn

My dad died when I was just four, and my little brother Philip two years younger still. Just before this happened, my maternal grandfather had also passed suddenly, so it … Read more

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