Red Bottom Club

My fellow Brits reading the Maman stories will understand when I say that the UK was a very different place back in the 197… more

I come from a conservative Indian household, where physical affection such as hugs and cuddles – even for the children – … more

Along with my three sisters, I got more than my fair share of spankings growing up, mostly from our strict but loving moth… more

First of all, I am quite a bit younger than most of your contributors. I just turned 24 and this is my first year out of colle… more

When I was 11 years old, my parents took me over to dinner at the home of my father’s boss. He and his wife had a daughter name… more

I grew up in the English county of Yorkshire in the 1970s, a time when smacking and corporal punishment was still very muc… more

As a boy, I became deeply fascinated by spanking. My parents were not the spanking type, although my sister has said that … more

It never pays to leave children to their own devices, as my mother found out on one memorable occasion.

On this day, my fri… more

This story goes right back to when I was just eight years old, but has been seared into my memory for reasons which will bec… more

I grew up in all-girl household – me, Andrea or Andi – and my sisters Katherine and Elizabeth, aka Lizzy. Our parents were … more

Some of your readers may remember my two previous submissions. The First of Many recalled my very first over-the-knee s… more

In my last story, I related how I was given a sound spanking by my aunt for playing on the railway line. As I also told you in t… more

When I was eight years old, my mum suddenly became very ill and was subsequently diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. I w… more

While in my second year at uni, I began going out with a girl I’ll call Andrea, and in our mutual third year we moved i… more

Many of your contributors, I notice, say they find it hard to pinpoint exactly where their fascination with the act of sp… more

During the 1970s, I attended a private Catholic girls school in Yorkshire. It was run along pretty traditional lines, a… more

I’m taking you back in time to the 1970s, when I was a little girl of six years old. My mum had needed some groceries a… more

I was raised in a pretty middle class family in Scotland during the 1980s. My parents were pretty liberal, and although I … more

I was brought up in a very loving Irish Catholic family during the late 70s and 80s. Unusually for such families, I was an o… more

I am now what most people would consider an old lady, but nevertheless I enjoy reading your website as it brings back wond… more

Growing up in the 1980s, my sister and I spent a lot of time over at the house of our widowed grandmother. After my grandpa d… more

I was born and raised in a village in the north east Highlands of Scotland. The primary school I attended in the 1960s is no… more

I really enjoy reading Maman and have a story to share. This is a little different perhaps to some of your stories as it con… more

I was brought up in a comfortable middle-class home during the 1970s and although corporal punishment was still very co… more

You might think that the practice of smacking, particularly in the UK, had more or less died a death. I certainly thought … more

My older brother and I were brought up in a fairly upper middle class household during the 1960s, and like many parents of … more

I’m an old man now, but I was born into a wealthy family in the early 1950s. Our family firm’s name is one that … more

I served in the US Navy for eight years, most of that time in a shore-based role in Norfolk, Virginia. It was during this ti… more

My younger brother (by two years) and I were brought up in the 1980s, when spanking was still a fairly common method of kee… more

Because I was an only child, I think my mother in particular was keen to make sure that I wasn’t spoilt, and althoug… more

I’ve noticed that there are quite a few of your correspondents from single parent families, and I am another, as m… more

When I was 13 years old, we had a family holiday in the West of England. On one of these days, it was decided that my dad would … more

When I was nearly 15, I got quite friendly with a boy who lived just down the street from me. He was only 12, and I liked the wa… more

Now the long summer holidays are once again upon us, I thought your readers might like to hear about a day back in the early … more

I was interested to read the accounts by your contributor Matt about his time in the house church movement in the UK. I was … more

Nigel recalls how his mother, despairing of bringing her growing son under control, resorted to taking him to see a reti… more