Red Bottom Club

Back in the ‘good old days’, many children could expect a well-spanked bottom as a regular part of their toilet training, especially for older boys and girls. Jonathan was one … Read 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 this frank account of their relationship…

Kids’ behaviour can sometimes be altogether disgusting, and in this frank reminiscence, Sean remembers how his mother put an end to ‘on the toilet conferences’ held between him and his … Read more

Edith Cadivec was an infamous educator and spanking enthusiast. In this audio version of an extract from her autobiography, Confessions and Experiences, she remembers the first time her stepmother took … Read more

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

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 could combine her medical work … Read more

On my 13th birthday, what I wanted more than anything was a pair of Wrangler jeans. Of course, I had perfectly good jeans already – but they were knock-off brands … Read more

As a Scottish teacher of the 1950s, David’s mother was unsurprisingly a firm supporter of the belt in both school and home. At home, though, the target was rather different … Read more

The experience of seeing a young playmate getting a maternal spanking for wetting her underpants is one which this anonymous contributor recalls vividly, even today.

The following remarks about domestic discipline were originally collected by John and Elizabeth Newson, a husband and wife team of psychologists, who undertook an extensive study of child development drawing … Read more

This story takes us right back to the 1940s, when a little girl’s dining room prank ended with an introduction to the dreaded ‘Board of Education’.

The following memories are drawn from posts on an internet forum set up to support a BBC project called ‘Scotland on Film’ in 2003. Here, several posters recount their memories … Read more

What’s worse than a spanking? How about two spankings in the same day, one at school and the other from mother at home? Colin remembers getting a very sore bottom … Read more

The following is an exchange between two contributors to the long-defunct Maman mailing list, regarding that formidable figure, the prep school matron…

For many of us as children, having our transgressions and our punishments discussed in front of us between adults was almost as bad as the spanking itself, as two of … Read more

Our first experience of spanking is always memorable, but perhaps even more so is the first time we witness a sibling receiving the same punishment, as Kevin recalls here.

The intimacy of motherhood has many sides, from stern discipline to loving comfort, as William found out when he was babysat by family friend Mrs Carter.

In British primary schools in the early 1960s, it wasn’t uncommon for teachers to spank children publicly in class in the same way they might expect to be chastised by … Read more

When Mark was six years old, his parents decided he needed something more serious than a few smacks on his clothed bottom. They bought a nursery cane for discipline, and … Read more

Once upon a time, Scotland’s naughty children were subject to a very specific discipline – that of the dreaded belt, or tawse. Although it was mostly used on hands in … Read more

Our correspondent Heather recalls seeing three teenage girls get a sound bare-bottom belting off their mother when she went round to babysit them.

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 for the family. Of course, … Read more

When I was a young boy, I suffered quite regularly from bouts of constipation – and my mother’s regular cure for it was an enema. I hated these with a … Read more

My mother was a firm believer in corporal punishment. From an early age, when I had misbehaved in her eyes, she would put me across her knee and firmly smack … Read 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 couple who believe that the wife … Read more

Not long after my 20th birthday, my boyfriend and I borrowed a relative’s camper van and took off for a road trip around the west coast of Scotland. I can’t … Read more

When I was nine years old, I went through a phase of dirtying my underpants, mostly through not wiping my bottom properly after doing a poo, but sometimes through farting … Read more

This insightful and frank account of a parental discussion about discipline in the marital bed is being published as ‘first to audio’ for our Red Bottom Club subscribers. Why not … Read more

Back in the heyday of spanking, children who misbehaved while out shopping could often expect a sore bottom upon their return home – or even in the store itself. Abby … Read 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 still both a common punishment in … Read more

During my time at university, I would occasionally earn a bit of extra money in the holiday breaks by doing a spot of babysitting. I did spank some of the … Read more

There surely can’t be many kids who haven’t once played the game of ‘I’ll show you mine if you show me yours’, given the natural curiosity about are own bodies … Read more

Many consider that there is a ‘spanking gene’ which determines if we develop a fetish about corporal punishment, and which meshes with puberty when it arrives. Nicky describes her own … Read more

When three kids take a forbidden route home through some dangerous woods, the result is a bare bottom spanking for each of them – and a particularly mortifying revelation for … Read more

Judith is a New Zealand mother-of-two living just outside Auckland. Her children are Zoe and Darren, who at the time of this interview were aged seven and four respectively. The … Read more

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