Red Bottom Club

The Housemother, sometimes known as the Matron, has played a prominent role in looking after British boarding school children down the years – and her responsibilities have often included the … Read more

Donna’s intention of picking a nice bouquet of flowers for her nana goes badly wrong, when she raids her grandad’s garden for the blooms and ends up over her grandmother’s … Read more

PROPER METHOD – THE TIME ‘True, there is a time for everything; circumstances, however, may dictate the time.’

One day, when I was around seven, I was round at my friend Tony Attwood’s house. We had been playing up in his bedroom with his Action Man and Dinky … Read more

I attended a middle school in the early 1980s. Corporal punishment was dying out slowly but surely in most UK educational establishments (and would be banned altogether in a few … Read more

I was just six years old, and because my (single) mum had to have a minor operation, I was farmed out to stay with my nana and grandad for a … Read more

PROPER METHOD ‘Plan your work, then work your plan.’

SYSTEMATIC CORRECTION ‘System is vital to success.’

Consuela is a single mother living near the Spanish capital of Madrid. Although Spain has since banned the spanking of children, at the time of this interview it was perfectly … Read more

A former school secretary offers us a slice of British school life from the 1960s – and recalls the many occasions when she heard boys and girls being punished in … Read more

When Darren went to stay with a friend’s family for a few days, he witnessed two sore bottoms – and then faced an embarrassing yet thrilling inquisition into his own … Read more

When boys discover girls and vice versa, their sexual attraction is often tied up with the intimacy of the corporal punishment they received. Lauren was one such, and she describes … Read more

In the days before the internet, often our first exposure to pornography would be through the medium of a grubby magazine, discarded by its original purchaser. One such incident is … Read more

PROPER FORM OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT By this time the reader knows that the form of corporal punishment advocated by me is spanking and perhaps she is inclined to say, “Well, … Read more

I got my first babysitting job when I was just 14, and gave my first spanking about a month after I first started looking after the children. My charges were … Read more

Back in the days when spanking of even older children was common, for girls there was one time to be punished that was worse than anything else you could imagine…

Natalie remembers how she despaired at her young daughter’s bad behaviour – until she took the spanking spoon upstairs for the first time and did her maternal duty…

All of us who arrived on this planet only got there one way – your mom and dad fucking. For most of us, knowing your parents ‘did it’ is bad … Read more

When William was seven, his parents decided to get a cane for him and his little brother. Here, he relates his experiences of having to bend over for a punishment … Read more

When I was 10 and my brother Brian seven, our mother was taken very poorly with glandular fever. If you’ve ever had this horrid disease, you’ll know how it saps … Read more

Leah is a mother of two girls living in Durban, South Africa. At the time of this interview, her daughters were aged nine and six. I’ve heard it said that … Read more

EARLY PUNISHMENT ‘Better the child cry, than the old man.”

I grew up in the 1960s in the English town of Walsall, in the West Midlands. Back then, Walsall was a hugely important centre for the saddlery industry, so it … Read more

Esther ‘Eppie’ Lederer (1918-2002) better known by the pen name Ann Landers, was an American advice columnist whose syndicated column appeared in newspapers throughout America – and often beyond, as … Read more

An informal reader poll by the Madera Tribune in 1950 found, perhaps not surprisingly, that mothers were in favour of corporal punishment. The newspaper’s column The Inquiring Reporter posed the … Read more

AUTHOR’S CONVICTION “Wouldst thou advise in all sincerity? Then, first, convince thyself.”

There comes a time when a mum realises her young child is ready for their first smacked bottom. Elsie recalls this moment from her own motherhood, introducing her twins to … Read more

In this sweet account from her kindergarten days, Hannah recalls a smacked bottom she received from her teacher for disobeying a rule meant to keep the children safe.

Sheila is a widowed English mother of three who by the time of this interview was also a grandmother. She talked frankly to Maman about her thoughts on child discipline. … Read more

When I was growing up in South Africa, during the 1960s, the cane was in widespread use for corporal punishment. Not only was it used pretty freely in schools, but … Read more

WHY CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IS CONDEMNED ‘What is there that has not been abused by the malic or unworthiness of man?’

Back in the early 1960s, I worked in an English primary school as its secretary. The headmistress, Miss Brown [name changed – Ed] was essentially my boss, and her office … Read more

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT “Often, foods and poisons are classed under one heading.”

The last smacking of my childhood was also by far the most memorable – and it all started behind the village cricket pavilion. I had gone there scrumping for apples. … Read more

PUNISHMENT “Not kindness but its counterfeit, habitually permits misconduct to go unpunished.”

One of my granny’s neighbours, the McKinnon family, were widely rumoured to be frequent smackers. On our regular visits up north, my cousins and their friends would gleefully share with … Read more