Red Bottom Club

When I went to college, I found it difficult to find somewhere to live that was both close to the campus and affordable, an… more

Alma is a mother of three and grandmother to four. She comes from a large and loving Jewish family with its roots in the cit… more

I don’t know why exactly, but until the age of six I was a stranger to corporal punishment. I think I may have had the … more

I’ve always had something of a big mouth, and it has got me into trouble many times in my life, but never more memora… more

Getting a bare bottom spanking from a woman who isn’t your mother was something to dread as a boy, and John recalls … more

Hello from Belgium. This happened when I was 14 and had a girlfriend of my own age, named Talya. I often went around to her h… more

Dressing in clothes of the opposite sex is a common fetish amongst pubescent boys (and even older ones). Here, an anonym… more

Could it be that one of the most incredibly beautiful feelings our bodies have to offer is soon followed by one of the wors… more

Sometimes, when we were children, we would think we had got away with serious misbehaviour – only for it to catch up with u… more

Lack of personal hygiene was once a common reason why mothers spanked their children. Our correspondent Gustavo recal… more

Paul remembers having his bottom thoroughly smacked in Sunday school – with a somewhat memorable soundtrack!… more

When Jonathan’s mother decided to try returning to the world of work, she lighted on Mrs Miller as her child care s… more

During the late 1980s I was working in the city of London and living on the outskirts, and so caught the bus into work each d… more

When young Simon decided to retrieve his own ball from the flat roof of his mother’s office, it ended up with six of … more

John recalls a belting from his girlfriend’s father which left him with a very sore bottom, but strangely arouse… more

Sometimes, even good boys have a secret desire to be taken over someone’s knee and have their bare bottoms soundl… more

A father who prefers to remain anonymous wrote in to us with his reminiscences of caning his three daughters while they w… more

Irish mother Kelly recalls how she changed the disciplinary regime in her home with the introduction of a traditional i… more

Having a headmaster for a dad was not the easiest of childhoods, particularly when you’re an only child on whom yo… more

Mum didn’t often smack either me or my younger sister Emily, but when she did, she made a ‘proper job’… more

My parents were regular churchgoers, and during the main part of the service the children would go into a Sunday school, … more

Home-schooling mom Heather was one of those parents who purchased a controversial spanking implement known as The Rod… more

Contributor Barbara recalls how she saw the beginning of a family spanking – and heard it in its entirety – when she paid a … more

I’ve read elsewhere of women ruling their households with a rod of iron – my wife Gina ruled hers with a spoon of woo… more

Kelly is an Irish mother of two girls, both now grown up. In another Maman story, she discussed her use of the traditional … more

As a parent bringing up a family in the 1970s, corporal punishment played a natural part in enforcing family discipline… more

A rare glimpse for Harry of his wife actually spanking their young son brought a whole new dimension to their marital int… more

When three young brothers push their mother too far, she gets out a ruler and bends them over together for their first and … more

The chance to start a snowball fight in the school playground proved too much of a temptation for Pat – for his trouble, he … more

Children’s homes are still unfortunately a necessity and part of our national care network, at least in the UK, b… more

I’ve read a couple of accounts on your website from people who were sent elsewhere by their parents to receive cor… more

Audrey and I married in the 1961, and had Liam, our first and only child, three years later. Liam was mostly a good boy for u… more

I always hated history at school, and so if some homework wasn’t going to get done (and that happened at lot to me LO… more

I was the ‘afterthought’ of our family – a boy born to my mum 12 years after the youngest of her two girls. By t… more

By the time me and my best friend Gavin were 12 years old, I think it had been some years since either of us had been put over t… more

When I was in college, I worked part time as a night supervisor at a local motel to earn some money. My shift generally ran f… more