Smacked in the supermarket
This is a story about me getting a tanned arse for misbehaving in Tesco, a well-known supermarket in the UK, by my mum in the early 1990s. I was about … Read more
The plastic paddle
When I wasn’t being paddled, I was very doted on. I was loved and well taken care of. Mom was too strict but her love was excessive as well. When … Read more
Lori’s revenge
Lori often came over to babysit me, sometimes three or four times a week. Mother and father often went out at night to be alone and left me in her … Read more
A clean conscience
When I was growing up, my parents firmly believed in the benefits of a spanking for naughty boys – and I got my share. Usually they were from Mom but … Read more
Spanked by mistake
It was a summer evening and I was getting ready for bed. Mom told me to take a bath and then put on my pyjamas. Usually at this point, Mom … Read more
Red bottom on a nudist beach
This story does not concern me, but a friend of mine I will call Peter, whom I know from my local sauna. Peter told us about this spanking, which happened … Read more
Deserving the punishment (audio)
In the days when corporal punishment was still widespread, the last vestiges of childhood often dovetailed with the awakenings of puberty, with often heady results. This anonymous contributor recalls such … Read more
Scott and I
Some call it the ‘English Vice’; this mystique which surrounds an old-fashioned spanking. From my experience, I would say that there are many people out there who would secretly like … Read more
The swimming pool
When I was growing up, after Mom divorced, we often visited my relatives in Minnesota. And often we stayed at my aunt’s place, a nice farm with a nice swimming … Read more
Over Maeve’s knee
When I was about 12, I used to visit a large family living nearby. There was one daughter about 17, two others Jean and Susan about my age, and Susan’s … Read more
Absent without leave
When I was a junior at high school in East Texas in the 1980s, I was paddled for leaving the campus without permission. During lunch break, I decided to get … Read more
Spanked for talking back
This is my recollection of a good spanking my mom gave me – I consider it as the one of the most educational things ever in my life! I was … Read more
Sleeping naked
When I was about 14, I was sleeping in the living room on a pull-out bed (or ‘castro’). Although it was expressly forbidden, I mostly slept naked because I found … Read more
Surprise, surprise
When I was about 10 years old, my brother and I got a new babysitter – I think we were too much of handful for our old one. At that … Read more
Libby and Rachel (audio)
In this audio version of a popular Maman memory, two girls recall how they met, and how a mutual fascination with spanking – nurtured in childhood – led them to … Read more
The cane in the corner (audio)
Asian parents are widely known for the exacting standards they expect of their children – and the sometimes harsh punishments they apply when the child fails to meet them. Cheng … Read more
My father’s cigarette case
This is my memory of a spanking I got in 1957, when I was just five years old. We were not a very well-off family and my parents had few … Read more
Over Mrs Johnson’s lap
I grew up a somewhat undisciplined child – I was adopted at the age of three and my new parents were to afraid to give me what I needed (i.e. … Read more
Slipping out, then slippered
My school was a boys only grammar school and there were only a few female teachers. When I was in the third year, at the age of about 14, a … Read more
The two smells (audio)
Sniffing your mother’s worn knickers is undoubtedly a taboo subject, but is in fact probably fairly common for young boys experiencing the confusing phenomenon of puberty. An anonymous contributor recalls … Read more
My girlfriend’s mom
When I was 13, I had a girlfriend I really liked – but I didn’t like spending time at her house because we would always seemed to get into trouble. … Read more
In front of everyone
My parents met while my father was in the army and stationed in Germany. I was born in the US but by the time I was in 5th grade my … Read more
Knowing what you show
I’m the only child of a fairly middle class English family, who grew up in the 1980s. My parents weren’t particularly strict but they did believe in smacking my bottom … Read more
A spoonful of discipline
I was nine and was with two of my friends in the kitchen. We were making pancakes and I was showing off, being the youngest of us all, holding my … Read more
The sally rod
When our girls Una and Ciara were growing up, I was the primary disciplinarian. A basic punishment was a bare bottom over-the-knee hand spanking, which was later enhanced with a … Read more
The mean girls
This story was one my mom shared with me when I was older, and it took place shortly after my parents got married and before my oldest brother was born … Read more
Amie’s second smacking
In a previous story, I described how my twins Archie and Amie experienced their first spanking one night, at bedtime, at the age of four. As I mentioned, that first … Read more
First time over mother’s knee
My elder brother Andy and I were not often spanked as children, but that made it all the more memorable when our parents gave us a sore bottom. I remember … Read more
Advertising’s bottom line
Maman special report One of the oldest and immutable principles of advertising has been to identify with your target audience, and reflect their daily lives in your imagery and copy. … Read more
No nonsense from grandma
My grandpa and grandma weren’t really farmers, but they had a small parcel of land at the back of their property with a few animals, which ran into dense woodland, … Read more
A surprise smacking
Not long after I married my wife Karen, I was sent to live in Sydney, Australia for a couple of years by my company as part of my career development. … Read more
‘Discipline is a good thing’
“If I don’t get obedience when I gave an order, then it means the cane.” The following is a reader’s letter sent into the Irish Times newspaper in 1955 by … Read more
Beltings over the sofa
I grew up in Zambia in the 1990s, and corporal punishment was still widespread in both schools and at home. In our own home, that meant the belt from our … Read more
Spanking and growing
Like a lot of your correspondents, I believe I have what some have called the ‘spanking gene’, in that I have been fascinated by the act ever since I was … Read more