Red Bottom Club

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

Sniffing your mother’s worn knickers is undoubtedly a taboo subject, but is in fact probably fairly common for y… more

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