Red Bottom Club

Growing up in Mexico during the 1980s, the most common discipline tool amongst mothers was undoubtedly la chancla – a fl… more

I’m somewhat old-fashioned in my ways, so when our only child Orlando was born, there was no question that he woul… more

When I was six years old, my primary school teacher was a Mrs Mason. She was a young, attractive lady with shoulder-lengt… more

I was born in Taiwan and my upbringing there during the 1980s was very typical for the times, particularly when it came to … more

I come from quite a privileged family, and as my parents were both busy professionals it was only natural that they would … more

My parents didn’t smack very often – my sister and I were raised in the 80s, when spanking was becoming rather unfa… more

I enjoy reading the memories posted on your website, especially those involving the cane, a punishment implement with … more

I was one of the first from our British primary school to go to a middle school, when the system changed in the late 1970s – p… more

The year was 1975, and I was six years old. I had been disruptive in class for most of the morning and Mrs Taylor, my teacher… more

When I was six or seven years old (I can’t remember exactly when), I ‘borrowed’ my mother’s c… more

My parents split up when I was very young – my mother ran off with a friend of my dad’s, and after about six months the… more

I was nine years old, and for the second time in about a month, I hadn’t done my homework. Even now as we sat down in cl… more

When I was 10 years old, I began attending a girls’ school in the west of Ireland which, like many at the time, was ru… more

Although I now live in London, I was actually born in Hong Kong and raised there during the 1980s. My parents, who are both … more

It was the autumn of 1972, and as you will see, I have no problem remembering or confirming the date.

That summer I had turn… more

My mother died very suddenly when my younger sister and I were quite young (I was six and my little sister Pamela was barel… more

Spankings began quite early for me – I have a vivid memory of being barely three and being taken upstairs by my father for a … more

When I was a little boy, we had a black maid called Ella, who was ‘the help’ around our house. Even back then (… more

Helen was a right little chatterbox during her early school years – and one day the habit earned her a soundly smacked bot… more

Eamon recalls the box of spanking implements his mother kept for himself and his sister, and describes their use when th… more

This is the story of the last proper spanking I got as a girl – I was 12 years old and this was in the early 1970s. I should expl… more

It might sound a bit arrogant to say this, but I was generally a very well-behaved child. Of course, I could be naughty lik… more

Those of you who grew up in the UK during the 70s and 80s will almost certainly remember the Keep Britain Tidy campaign, al… more

Kids today don’t know they’re born – I grew up in Ireland during the 1970s, when no mother had any trouble in … more

We had some very good family friends who we visited quite often at their home in Yorkshire – they had children of roughly t… more

When I was nine years old, I was sent to a preparatory school in the north west of England. It was impressed upon me by my par… more

When Louise was at teaching training college, the first bottom she ended up smacking was ironically not one of her pupil… more

I am a child of the 60s, and so not surprisingly when I was a naughty little boy, my mother had little compunction about bar… more

In a very frank account, Susan recalls an experience in the woods with a boy younger than herself, whose spanking she had … more

When Gary struggled to find accommodation during his college studies, he ended up in a family home with a very specific a… more

Eric recalls how his wife ruled the roost not with a rod of iron, but a spoon of wood, resulting in many memorable spanking… more

Some random encounters in life are so shocking, and yet so memorable, that they become ingrained in our memories. This a… more

Contributor Clair vividly recalls the time she witnessed her little sister getting a bare bottom smacking from their m… more

By the time I was 12, my reputation as the family tomboy was pretty much established. I rarely played with other girls, ne… more

I started using the cane on my son’s bottom when he was 10 years old. Up until about seven, I had merely given him a fe… more

During the late 60s/early 70s, I worked as an early years classroom teacher in both kindergarten and first grade in scho… more