Red Bottom Club

Before my marriage, I worked as a nanny for nearly nine years, mostly abroad as I wanted to travel the world. and also the p… more

Editor’s note: About three years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Miss Walters [real name] at a family gatherin… more

Like many little girls, I had dreams of becoming a ballerina and so from a very early age, I pestered my parents for ballet … more

I received an email recently from a gentleman we’ll call Mark. Mark wrote: “After my father Stanley died in 2008, I found … more

When I was nearly 12 years old, our family rented a caravan on a holiday park near Torquay in the south west of England. The… more

In most of the stories I have read on your excellent site, I notice that in most of the families mentioned, both girls and b… more

In his quest to find a new relationship after his marriage broke down, Brian came into contact with several single mothe… more

Valerie’s rather unusual childhood phobia of using the toilet outside of her own home once landed her with a wet b… more

Contributor Julian describes an unlikely close encounter with parental discipline when he popped into the toilets of … more

By the time I turned 16, I must have smacked more bottoms than many mothers do during a decade of parenting – and what’s mor… more

I’m not entirely sure at what age my interest in spanking transformed from one of boyish practical avoidance of pain to a … more

I have had a spanking fetish since I was a child. However, my family has always been pretty much against any form of corpor… more

I taught at an English middle school (ages 9-13) during the late 70s/early 80s and loved it. It was a hugely rewarding job … more

Everyone has their first crush, I guess. And at eight years old, Briony was mine. She was seven years older, and lived nex… more

This happened one time when my I was in my early 20s and I babysat for my older sister Ella. I was unmarried at the time, whil… more

Maman special feature

Suzanne Marache’s martinets, made in the small village of Fétigny in the heart of the Morvan regi… more

This interview was originally conducted in the early 2000s. Marine is a French mother of two boys, who at the time were ag… more

Most of the stories you feature on your website are about correspondents being smacked on their bottoms for misbehavio… more

When I was raising my son Drew, I was firm believer in corporal punishment. Although when he was very young I used my hand t… more

I’ve noticed that much of your content tends to be from the perspective of the person receiving the spanking, rather tha… more

As a young girl, I was by no means a stranger to corporal punishment. In fact, in 1970s Britain, I think you’d be hard pushe… more

Cheryl is a single mum, who at the time of this interview lived in the Midlands of the UK with her six-year-old daughter Bi… more

Joy is a mother of two boys in New Zealand. At the time of this interview, the children were aged six and eight respectivel… more

Roberta is another single mom being featured on this website, having at the time of interview a six-year-old daughter n… more

As a mother, I frequently had resort to a well smacked bottom in keeping my children in line. But I have only ever had to put … more

We conclude our look at the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine with some more sage advice on the physical correction of c… more

In this next selection of letters to the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, we encounter more correspondence from bot… more

Maman continues its review of correspondence to the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, a Victorian publication whic… more

Another excerpt from the Victorian pornographic novel The Romance of Lust. After witnessing his little sister receiv… more

The following is an excerpt from The Romance of Lust, an anonymously-authored pornographic flagellant novel dating f… more

In the final part of her discussions about the merits or otherwise of spanking, our Christian mother sums up her thought… more

When I was a boy, my best mate was Matthew [all names changed – Ed], and he and I spent a lot of time at each other’s houses. I w… more

In the next part of this article, our Christian mother defends spanking above other prospective punishments.

Spankin… more

Having spent some time exploring the practicalities of administering a spanking, our Christian mother now turns her a… more

As a child of the 70s, I was more than used to being across my mum or dad’s knee, skirt up and knickers down, and being given a … more

What do you do with a child who is determined not to have his bottom smacked as a punishment? Our Christian mother offers s… more