Red Bottom Club

John and Elizabeth Newson were a husband and wife team of psychologists who undertook an extensive study of child development drawing on the experience of a number of families in … Read more

When I was seven, my mom took me to the zoo. When we were looking at some animals, I saw a donkey. I had heard my brother use the word … Read more

My mother never spanked me on the bare bottom. I always was allowed to keep my underpants on. Mom mostly used a wooden spoon to punish me, sometimes a rug-beater. … Read more

As a child, I was often taken across my mother’s knee for a spanking. It was the natural consequence of being naughty. When very young, I was spanked with her … Read more

One of the interesting aspects of reading ‘spanking literature’ is to note the differences in the language that different people use to describe ‘incidents’ and the manner of speech of … Read more

After the time I observed the punishment of my sister Jenny with the plastic flyswatter, I was well aware of the fact that Mom could be very strict and that … Read more

I remember once witnessing a punishment given to my older sister Jenny. At the time it occurred, she was 13 years old and I was 10. I was reading a … Read more

My brother and sister and I fought like cats and dogs most of the time. How our parents endured it, I’ll never know. A couple of times, we pushed them … Read more

I was brought up in a small town in the north of Scotland with my two sisters. From time to time, we all suffered the embarrassment of a smacked bottom … Read more

This happened when I was almost 14 years old. I had never been spanked as a young child – well, certainly not with my jeans and underwear down. But this … Read more

I was six and it had not been a great day. I find it interesting now to look back on this experience and realise it was the first time I … Read more

I grew up in a home that wasn’t short of discipline. Almost weekly, I ended up over my mother’s knee for bare bottom blisterings. My mother believed that a child … Read more

Once – I must have been about 10 at the time – we (my parents, one of my brothers and I) spent a Sunday at a friends’ country house. Those … Read more

I was never spanked as a child until I turned seven. I didn’t even really understand what a spanking was, except from a friend who used to ‘get swats’”. Then … Read more

I come from a rather large family – six kids, four of them younger than me. I suppose my brothers and sisters and I got along well enough when we … Read more

When I was in the 2nd grade at a co-ed Catholic School grades 1-8, I received a spanking from the head nun, the Mother Superior. The steps that led to … Read more

As a very active seven year old, most of my time and energy was devoted to making life miserable for my second grade teacher. My classmates found my antics to … Read more

When I was in seventh grade, I was paddled by my English teacher who I just happened to have a crush on. I was raised in south Georgia, where all … Read more

When I was 10 years old, I was sent to a boys boarding school in Georgia run by a group of nuns. My parents had divorced, my mother had remarried … Read more

As attendees at a parochial school, my chums and I were accustomed to spankings from an early age. During kindergarten and first grade, at least one of us each day … Read more

When I was 14, a couple of us boys found that by climbing up on the school’s dumpster, we could see into the girls’ locker room through a transom over … Read more

This story is one that is often brought up during family gatherings over the holidays. My brother and I are the youngest of five children in the family. When Parker … Read more

I come from the Baltic States, where spanking was very common and it still is these days. I come from a rather average family, having two younger brothers. We lived … Read more

I’m young enough to be considered part of the ‘politically correct’ era when spanking and other forms of corporal punishment are frowned upon by the general public – at least … Read more

I grew up in the late 50s and 60s, and spanking in our household was no stranger. Although they were not used frequently, when they were it was definitely not … Read more

Having grown up in the South, my brothers, sisters and I were raised by going to church religiously every Sunday with my mother and father (if he was not away … Read more

Over 30 years ago, when I was about 10 years old, my father remarried (my mother had died four years earlier) to a woman with a daughter my age, named … Read more

I grew up in the early 60s when it was perfectly acceptable to give a naughty child a good spanking. Many of my friends regularly reported one. However, I was … Read more

When I was a young boy of 11, my parents and younger brother went on a business trip to a city some 500 miles from our home. Because I was … Read more

When I was a little boy of six, my best friend was the girl next door. I know that sounds cliched, but it’s true. Our families were very close and … Read more

During Christmas vacation, when I was 13, I spent just about every day with my friend Roger. We were into building forts in the woods. We had gathered several oak … Read more

For as long as I can remember, I have been a confirmed spanko – but growing up as a little girl, that didn’t mean I actually wanted it to happen … Read more

When I was 14 years old or so, I was at a picnic and was stung on the arm by a few yellowjackets. I developed a noticeable reaction and was … Read more

My mother believed in strict discipline and I received many a spanking, usually across her lap with my jeans pulled down and right on my underpants with her bare hand. … Read more

In 1965, I was in first grade at Valwood Elementary in Dallas and my teacher was a 50-year-old woman named Mrs Robinson. I remember the first time I received at … Read more

Though corporal punishment was officially abolished in the German school system in the 1950s, there were still some vestiges of this tradition up until the 1970s. By this time, when … Read more