Red Bottom Club

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Mothers Talking is a previously unpublished series of interviews conducted mostly online (occasionally by telephon… more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

It all started rather innocently during gym class. A friend and I were horsing around in the locker room when we were supp… more

In the third grade in private school, children could be physically disciplined, should the teacher feel it necessary.… more

I am the youngest of three boys, all born within about a year of each other. Becky came along six years after me, an acciden… more

I was 12 years old and it was approaching ‘Cracker Night’ in Australia that everyone had bonfires and let o… more

Some years ago now, contributor Tyler submitted this dialogue from a conversation he had had with Kim, a mother of two yo… more

Years ago, more than I would like to remember, I was soundly spanked by a neighbour. Her name was Jan and I remember the spa… more

During one summer vacation, I went to stay with my friend Roger at his house. We decided to camp out in his back yard – that w… more

I was nine at the time when I was babysat by a family friend. Sue was in her 50s and had always been a real nice lady, although … more

When I was young, my friends and I would occasionally get into trouble, but most of the time we were good boys. However, th… more

Mealtimes were the cause for most of the friction between my mother and I as a boy. I was a fussy eater, you see, and whined i… more