Red Bottom Club

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

Children’s homes are still unfortunately a necessity and part of our national care network, at least in the UK, but I’m sure discipline is kinder and more humane than it … Read more

I’ve read a couple of accounts on your website from people who were sent elsewhere by their parents to receive corporal punishment. I note that most of them arise from … Read 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 us but like all children, … Read 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 LOL), then history was always odds-on favourite … Read more

I was the ‘afterthought’ of our family – a boy born to my mum 12 years after the youngest of her two girls. By the time I started school Liz, … Read 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 the parental … Read 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 from 6pm to 6am the … Read more

At the time of this interview, French single mother Anne-Laure was 27 and living on the outskirts of Lyon with her two children, a boy of seven and a little … Read more

In this audio version of the original story, grandmother Imogen recalls how she brought up her own son – with lots of love, and spanking.

Alan remembers a highly embarrassing incident from when he was fostered out as a young boy, and was given a bath and a bare bottom spanking in front of a … Read more

School report day was sometimes an anxious one for children – particularly if they hadn’t been trying too hard in class and their parents believed in smacking bottoms!

I guess you could say I was quite a spirited young girl – although I’m sure that at the time at least, my parents would have labelled me as just … Read more

I attended an Irish Catholic primary school in the 1960s – all the teachers were nuns and discipline was strict – you could have heard a pin drop in that … Read more

I grew up in the 1980s, a time when spankings for kids were beginning to wane in popularity but were still common enough that most of us knew that the … Read more

I was already nine years old by the time my brother Craig was born, so he was always the baby of the family in my eyes. I’d had my own … Read more

For those of us with a spanking fetish, finding an understanding sexual partner can be challenging. Steven was lucky enough to discover a perfect match during his university years…

Gina recalls how the innocence of a childhood game took on a new dimension as she and two playmates approached puberty – and how it got all three of them … Read more

By the time I was 18, having been brought up with frequent spankings from my mother, I was a confirmed fetishist. Now I was at university, and had the space … Read more

When we were all around nine or 10, my friends Melissa and Ashley and I took to playing something we called The Doctor Game. I don’t now recall how we … Read more

When I was nine and still in primary school in England during the 1950s, one winter Friday we had a massive fall of snow during the morning’s lessons. Not unnaturally, … Read more

UK mum Billie discusses disciplining her son, who was five at the time of this interview, and how she progressed from using her hand to the wooden spoon.

In this edition of Mothers Talking, an American mother of two, discusses her use of the paddle on her daughters and her approach to discipline in general.

I’ve read many of the stories on your website and many of them concern parents who employed an implement to whip their naughty kids into shape. However, my own mum … Read more

When Andrew’s mother became too ill to manage corporal punishment, she deputised his discipline to a neighbour he knew as Aunty Pat, resulting in many sore bottoms from her growing … Read more

Joy recalls how she began looking after her sister’s young daughter, and ended up giving the girl her first ever smacked bottom.

There are few spankings more humiliating than those received from a relative stranger rather than a close family member. Alice recalls one such smacking, bare bottomed over the knee of … Read more

I first started receiving communion and going to confession when I was eight years old (this was in the 1960s). Mum always took me, and she usually went in to … Read more

In this follow-up to The Slipper At Bedtime, the roles are reversed as our correspondent is the one finding himself bare-bottomed in front of his friend’s mum.

There is a certain peculiar camaraderie which results from being spanked alongside a close friend. In this account, our anonymous contributor describes a slippering his mum gave to him and … Read more

Back in the days of traditional discipline, stealing was one misdemeanour almost guaranteed to earn you a good sore bottom. Here, an anonymous contributor remembers one such incident…

When I was around four (it certainly wasn’t any older, as I hadn’t started school), my mother took a little cleaning job to help boost the family income, and she … Read more

In the days of the cane, a line of sombre-looking kids outside the headmaster’s door told its own story. In this account, Jack recalls his own experiences with the rod … Read 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 creative – on their bedroom wall…

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

In the days when mischievous kids faced the very real threat of a smacked bottom even from relative strangers, an innocent game of football could end in disaster, as Michael … Read more