Red Bottom Club

I’m the only child of a fairly middle class English family, who grew up in the 1980s. My parents weren’t par… more

My elder brother Andy and I were not often spanked as children, but that made it all the more memorable when our parents ga… 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 … more

“If I don’t get obedience when I gave an order, then it means the cane.” The following is a reader… 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… more

Like a lot of your correspondents, I believe I have what some have called the ‘spanking gene’, in that I hav… more

Edward remembers an apple scrumping expedition which resulted in him witnessing a very private event – and one he found … more

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

Ruth, the mother of two now grown children, remembers purchasing a punishment cane from an ad in the back of a British new… more

Around 20 years ago now, my husband’s job took us to Oman in the United Arab Emirates, and we spent around five happ… 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 kid… more

An anonymous user wrote in to share his experience of going up to his mother’s bedroom, being ordered to drop his t… more

Many of us, it would seem, have witnessed family or friends receiving corporal punishment. However, the most memorabl… more

During the 1980s, Denise and her sister Tracy were subject to a regime of corporal punishment that, while dying out, was … 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 … more

When I was 13, we got new neighbours. They had just one child, a boy five years younger than myself, but my main focus of the … more

Receiving your first spanking as a child is one thing, but administering such a punishment for the first time as a carer i… more

In the days when corporal punishment was far more common than it is now, quite a few parents allowed other adults to infli… more

When Helen and her friend June are caught smoking in school for the second time in less than a month, the remedy is the stra… more

My parents were generally very kind and loving and it was not often that corporal punishment was resorted to in our house… more

Daiyu is a mother-of-two from Singapore. At the time of the original interview, she was the mother of one little boy, who … more

When I was nine years old and growing up in a small Scottish town, we had a change of neighbour after the elderly gentleman … more

I’ve seen a few references on your site to being spanked on a wet bottom, and how it hurts a lot more somehow than a dr… more

The degree of privacy afforded for spankings administered to children of the opposite sex certainly varied family by f… more

Nowadays, any childminder who smacked the bottoms of the children in her charge would end up in court. But not that long a… more

Life on a working canal boat back in the ‘good old days’ was tough on bargee parents – and their children oft… more

Back in the 80s my best friend was a girl called Latisha. I’m white, Latisha is black. Close interracial friendsh… more

The childish games we play in our youth sometimes have a very adult dynamic beneath them, as Fiona found out when she and a … more

Intentions of being a progressive parent are one thing, but the reality of disciplining children in the real world can o… more

The birch was once a very commonplace instrument of corporal correction for the world’s children which fell out … more

When I was in year three of primary school (i.e. eight years old) in 1960s Manchester, I had a particularly bad day in clas… more

When I was a month or two short of 15, I started going out with Emma [named changed – Ed] who was about two years young… more

Quite a number of our correspondents have experiences of spankings by proxy when their own parents have been indispose… more

Back in the ‘good old days’, when the teacher’s authority was unquestioned, the way in which they r… more

Sometimes, the effects of spanking their children can be confusing and worrying for parents, as Mike readily amids in t… more

Often, grown-ups talking about spanking is more embarrassing for children than actually receiving it. Daniel rememb… more