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When I was about 10 years old, my brother and I got a new babysitter – I think we were too much of handful for our old one. At that … Read more

In this audio version of a popular Maman memory, two girls recall how they met, and how a mutual fascination with spanking – nurtured in childhood – led them to … Read more

Asian parents are widely known for the exacting standards they expect of their children – and the sometimes harsh punishments they apply when the child fails to meet them. Cheng … Read more

My school was a boys only grammar school and there were only a few female teachers. When I was in the third year, at the age of about 14, a … Read more

Sniffing your mother’s worn knickers is undoubtedly a taboo subject, but is in fact probably fairly common for young boys experiencing the confusing phenomenon of puberty. An anonymous contributor recalls … Read more

I’m the only child of a fairly middle class English family, who grew up in the 1980s. My parents weren’t particularly strict but they did believe in smacking my bottom … Read more

My elder brother Andy and I were not often spanked as children, but that made it all the more memorable when our parents gave us a sore bottom. I remember … Read more

Not long after I married my wife Karen, I was sent to live in Sydney, Australia for a couple of years by my company as part of my career development. … Read more

“If I don’t get obedience when I gave an order, then it means the cane.” The following is a reader’s letter sent into the Irish Times newspaper in 1955 by … Read more

I grew up in Zambia in the 1990s, and corporal punishment was still widespread in both schools and at home. In our own home, that meant the belt from our … Read more

Like a lot of your correspondents, I believe I have what some have called the ‘spanking gene’, in that I have been fascinated by the act ever since I was … Read more

Edward remembers an apple scrumping expedition which resulted in him witnessing a very private event – and one he found extremely stimulating, too!

Many people who grew up in a certain age will remember getting a sore bottom for the terrible crime of drawing on the walls of their home. Caroline was a … Read more

Ruth, the mother of two now grown children, remembers purchasing a punishment cane from an ad in the back of a British newspaper – and the first time she put … Read more

Around 20 years ago now, my husband’s job took us to Oman in the United Arab Emirates, and we spent around five happy years there. Hubby worked in the oil … Read more

When I was in my third year of primary school in the UK (I’d be around seven), one of those crazes which captures kids’ imaginations from time to time came … Read more

During the 1980s, Denise and her sister Tracy were subject to a regime of corporal punishment that, while dying out, was not entirely abandoned. Her experiences of a sore bottom … Read more

Many of us, it would seem, have witnessed family or friends receiving corporal punishment. However, the most memorable of these occasions appear to be when we shouldn’t have been watching … Read more

An anonymous user wrote in to share his experience of going up to his mother’s bedroom, being ordered to drop his trousers and pants and bend over for a good … Read more

When I was 15 years old, my parents had to go away for a couple of weeks to visit my grandma, who was very ill at the time. As it … Read more