Red Bottom Club

There are few spankings more humiliating than those received from a relative stranger rather than a close family membe… more

I first started receiving communion and going to confession when I was eight years old (this was in the 1960s). Mum alway… more

In this follow-up to The Slipper At Bedtime, the roles are reversed as our correspondent is the one finding himself bare… more

There is a certain peculiar camaraderie which results from being spanked alongside a close friend. In this account, ou… more

Back in the days of traditional discipline, stealing was one misdemeanour almost guaranteed to earn you a good sore bot… more

When I was around four (it certainly wasn’t any older, as I hadn’t started school), my mother took a little … more

In the days of the cane, a line of sombre-looking kids outside the headmaster’s door told its own story. In this ac… more

In this real-life mother account, Estelle recalls the time she gave her twin sons a sore bottom each for getting a bit too … more

Ella grew up in South Africa, and remembers the paddle her own mother kept for discipline – which featured a highly unusu… more

In the days when mischievous kids faced the very real threat of a smacked bottom even from relative strangers, an innoce… more

Back in the ‘good old days’, many children could expect a well-spanked bottom as a regular part of their to… more

The first time Kevin and Gemma ever talked about spanking was in bed, and one thing rather led to another, as he recalls in … more

Kids’ behaviour can sometimes be altogether disgusting, and in this frank reminiscence, Sean remembers how hi… more

Edith Cadivec was an infamous educator and spanking enthusiast. In this audio version of an extract from her autobiogr… more

Paul vividly recalls a smacked bottom he witnessed being administered while out playing on his bike one day.… more

My mother was a lady GP and a modest extension to our house in the south of England served as her practice. This meant she co… more

On my 13th birthday, what I wanted more than anything was a pair of Wrangler jeans. Of course, I had perfectly good jeans a… more

As a Scottish teacher of the 1950s, David’s mother was unsurprisingly a firm supporter of the belt in both school … more

The experience of seeing a young playmate getting a maternal spanking for wetting her underpants is one which this anon… more

The following remarks about domestic discipline were originally collected by John and Elizabeth Newson, a husband an… more

This story takes us right back to the 1940s, when a little girl’s dining room prank ended with an introduction to t… more

The following memories are drawn from posts on an internet forum set up to support a BBC project called ‘Scotland on Film… more

What’s worse than a spanking? How about two spankings in the same day, one at school and the other from mother at ho… more

The following is an exchange between two contributors to the long-defunct Maman mailing list, regarding that formida… more

For many of us as children, having our transgressions and our punishments discussed in front of us between adults was al… more

Our first experience of spanking is always memorable, but perhaps even more so is the first time we witness a sibling rec… more

The intimacy of motherhood has many sides, from stern discipline to loving comfort, as William found out when he was bab… more

In British primary schools in the early 1960s, it wasn’t uncommon for teachers to spank children publicly in cla… more

When Mark was six years old, his parents decided he needed something more serious than a few smacks on his clothed bottom… more

Once upon a time, Scotland’s naughty children were subject to a very specific discipline – that of the dreaded be… more

Our correspondent Heather recalls seeing three teenage girls get a sound bare-bottom belting off their mother when sh… more

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 f… more

When I was a young boy, I suffered quite regularly from bouts of constipation – and my mother’s regular cure for it … more

My mother was a firm believer in corporal punishment. From an early age, when I had misbehaved in her eyes, she would put m… 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 … more

Not long after my 20th birthday, my boyfriend and I borrowed a relative’s camper van and took off for a road trip ar… more