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When Mark was six years old, his parents decided he needed something more serious than a few smacks on his clothed bottom. They bought a nursery cane for discipline, and … Read more

Once upon a time, Scotland’s naughty children were subject to a very specific discipline – that of the dreaded belt, or tawse. Although it was mostly used on hands in … Read more

Our correspondent Heather recalls seeing three teenage girls get a sound bare-bottom belting off their mother when she went round to babysit them.

When I was four years old, my mother decided she would try to go back to work, even part-time, to earn a little extra money for the family. Of course, … Read more

When I was a young boy, I suffered quite regularly from bouts of constipation – and my mother’s regular cure for it was an enema. I hated these with a … Read more

My mother was a firm believer in corporal punishment. From an early age, when I had misbehaved in her eyes, she would put me across her knee and firmly smack … Read more

This is the story of how we decided, as parents, to begin spanking our young daughter. I should say that we are a Christian couple who believe that the wife … Read more

Not long after my 20th birthday, my boyfriend and I borrowed a relative’s camper van and took off for a road trip around the west coast of Scotland. I can’t … Read more

When I was nine years old, I went through a phase of dirtying my underpants, mostly through not wiping my bottom properly after doing a poo, but sometimes through farting … Read more

This insightful and frank account of a parental discussion about discipline in the marital bed is being published as ‘first to audio’ for our Red Bottom Club subscribers. Why not … Read more

Back in the heyday of spanking, children who misbehaved while out shopping could often expect a sore bottom upon their return home – or even in the store itself. Abby … Read more

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 … Read more

During my time at university, I would occasionally earn a bit of extra money in the holiday breaks by doing a spot of babysitting. I did spank some of the … Read more

There surely can’t be many kids who haven’t once played the game of ‘I’ll show you mine if you show me yours’, given the natural curiosity about are own bodies … Read more

Many consider that there is a ‘spanking gene’ which determines if we develop a fetish about corporal punishment, and which meshes with puberty when it arrives. Nicky describes her own … Read more