Red Bottom Club

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

When I was nine years old, I went through a phase of dirtying my underpants, mostly through not wiping my bottom properly … more

This insightful and frank account of a parental discussion about discipline in the marital bed is being published as &#… more

Back in the heyday of spanking, children who misbehaved while out shopping could often expect a sore bottom upon their r… more

I’ll never forget the first time I was taken upstairs by my father to be caned. This was in the 1970s, and it was stil… more

During my time at university, I would occasionally earn a bit of extra money in the holiday breaks by doing a spot of babys… more

There surely can’t be many kids who haven’t once played the game of ‘I’ll show you mine if you … more

Many consider that there is a ‘spanking gene’ which determines if we develop a fetish about corporal puni… more

When three kids take a forbidden route home through some dangerous woods, the result is a bare bottom spanking for each o… more

Judith is a New Zealand mother-of-two living just outside Auckland. Her children are Zoe and Darren, who at the time of t… more

I grew up in a time where corporal punishment was the normal method of discipline in both the home and the Catholic school … more

As a young boy growing up in the south, I had plenty of opportunities to witness other children undergoing corporal puni… more

When I was a kid, everyone who had any authority over us had the absolute right to spank us, from parents to teachers, and e… more

Having read the many accounts of childhood punishments on your website, I wondered if you would be interested in one fro… more

I remember one summer I spent with my parents in their summer house, about 20 miles north of the city where we lived. As a ma… more

Some kids will do anything to get out of a spanking! Here, Simon recalls how a childish prank at school ended in disaster f… more

Douglas remembers how a childish misunderstanding led to a very sore bottom and hands, and the appointment of a discipl… more

During my childhood, most of us kids were well acquainted with a good smacked bottom and all of our friends got it – we knew … more

When I was growing up, my parents firmly believed in the benefits of a spanking for naughty boys – and I got my share. Usual… more

In the days when corporal punishment was still widespread, the last vestiges of childhood often dovetailed with the aw… more

Some call it the ‘English Vice’; this mystique which surrounds an old-fashioned spanking. From my exper… more

Many years ago now, when I was in my early 20s and living in the Australian city of Brisbane, I dated a woman who was ten year… more

When I was about 12, I used to visit a large family living nearby. There was one daughter about 17, two others Jean and Susa… more

When I was about 10 years old, my brother and I got a new babysitter – I think we were too much of handful for our old one. At th… more

In this audio version of a popular Maman memory, two girls recall how they met, and how a mutual fascination with spankin… more

Asian parents are widely known for the exacting standards they expect of their children – and the sometimes harsh punis… more

My school was a boys only grammar school and there were only a few female teachers. When I was in the third year, at the age o… more