Red Bottom Club

When I was 12, I was attending junior high at a small town in Alabama. I had a steady if unspectacular academic record and w… more

When we were kids, my big sister Shirley and I were big fans of all the comic books, and laughed ourselves silly at the anti… more

Billie is a UK-based mum who at the time of the interview had just one child, a five-year-old son named Oliver.

Many mothe… more

I will always remember a day my wife Karen and I visited the home of my work colleague Phil and his wife Carolyn. I was fairl… more

Laura lives in Midwest America with her husband. At the time of interviewing her, her two sons were aged 12 and eight resp… more

Cordelia is a single UK mother. She has just the one son, Jack, who at the time of our original correspondence was around 1… more

When I was 13, I went for a sleepover at the house of my best friend, Cindy. She had a rather annoying little brother, named … more

Her grand piano was our mother’s pride and joy – and of course it needed tuning regularly. This is the story of how t… more

There can’t be many adolescent boys who haven’t at least thought about sniffing their mum’s dirty … more

When I was a boy, my parents and I often went to stay with their closest friends (each of the husbands had been the other… more

Belinda lives in New Zealand and describes herself as a ‘Bible-believing Catholic’. At the time of the in… more

Firstly, I have to admit that I’ve been fascinated by spanking from an early age. I wasn’t an especially na… more

The first time Gemma and I ever talked about spanking was in bed. I had been staying over and as we got ready to retire, Gemm… more

I always fancied myself as something of a ‘class clown’, and by the time I transferred to an English second… more

This is how I remember the spankings I got while growing up in Brisbane, Australia, in the 1950s. I turned 10 in 1956.

Bris… more

I was a typical 12-year-old boy. Basically pretty well-behaved and at home, mum and dad hadn’t had to smack my bottom sin… more

I was spanked a lot as a kid, until about 12 years old. One of the ones I remember the most happened when I was nine.

My friend … more

In the late 1980s, I visited London for a week with my fianceé, and as we were young and impecunious at the time, we ended up … more

When I was six years old, my father left me and my mum to go off with another woman. I never saw him again after that. With fin… more

One day, during the school holidays when I was a young teenager, I rode my bike to a popular children’s play area in the nex… more

One year on holiday, my sister and I got up very early one morning and ran off to the beach, where we dug a hole about a foot de… more

We weren’t babysat very often. We had a stay at home mum and a dad who was on the road a lot. But soon after we moved to Scotlan… more

When I was a child growing up in the Adirondacks, I went after school to Mrs Redmond’s house. She had a daughter, Lo… more

This happened in the early 1970s when I was nine years old, and the public spanking of children was no big deal.

I had gone t… more

When I was in the fifth grade, I joined a church youth group for kids in third through fifth grade. On the last meeting of th… more

When I was in my teens, I was forced to stay with my Aunt Audrey every summer because I couldn’t keep myself out of tr… more

Tanisha is an African-American mother-of-two living in the US state of Georgia. At the time of this interview, her sons … more

Mothers Talking is a previously unpublished series of interviews conducted mostly online (occasionally by telephon… more

Some time in the late 1970s, I was round at my friend Ian’s house. We had both recently celebrated our 10th birthda… more

When I was about 10 or 11 years old, my best friend was Eddie Miller. He was about the same age as me. We were always together… more

Corporal punishment has long been a way of life for African-American children. There’s no getting around it, ou… more

This happened one afternoon when my son John was around six. It was getting towards teatime – my husband Dennis had just g… more

During the Cold War in the 1970s I was in the US Air Force, working as a mechanic, and served several tours of duty in West Be… more

As a boy growing up in the 1950s, I attended a small private school. One day, when I was 11, I got into serious trouble for di… more

I was at primary school (ages five to 11) in Surrey, England in the late 1960s when I got my first spanking from a teacher. I … more

Corporal punishment was a pretty regular event in my family when I was a child. Spankings from my mother, which were usua… more