Turn and turn about

My first recollection of a spanking is one I received when I was four years old, although I know from family conversations that I received corporal punishment before then. My … Read more

The Housemother (audio)

The Housemother, sometimes known as the Matron, has played a prominent role in looking after British boarding school children down the years – and her responsibilities have often included the … Read more

Three types of caning

When I was a little girl, the discipline I dreaded most was a beating with the cane. My mother used a rattan cane and it never failed to leave a … Read more

Spanking by the book

Maman Special Report Books offering advice on raising good, happy children have never exactly been in short supply – but two slim American volumes from the 1920s and 30s stand … Read more

Pee is for paddling

My mother was a sixth grade teacher from the time she graduated in the 1970s until she retired five or six years ago.  When she began her career, corporal punishment … Read more

Sent to be caned

I attended a middle school in the early 1980s. Corporal punishment was dying out slowly but surely in most UK educational establishments (and would be banned altogether in a few … Read more

A taste of the leather

I grew up in Arkansas during the 1990s, and my mother’s approach to discipline was extremely conservative. She considered that spanking the children was woman’s work and she did it … Read more

Memories of the stick

I was fortunate growing up to have a large contingent of extended family living in the same neighbourhood. My mom’s sister lived just a couple of blocks from us, in … Read more

Finally on the bare

When I was a boy, my mother kept a strap that she would use to chastise me once in awhile. She usually gave me between 15 and 25 licks when … Read more

The spelling test

I was never very good at spelling – and that lack of ability led to my first and only school paddling, back in the 1980s. I was in second grade … Read more

Do you want a smack bottom?

I grew up in Britain in the 1970s, and my mum thought nothing about taking down my trousers and pants (or those of my little brother) when she considered we … Read more

Black bottomed girl

I met Omolade [name changed – Ed] at university – we were both studying history of art at Cambridge. She was Nigerian and her mother was a quite prominent diplomat. … Read more

Mad about the boy (audio)

When boys discover girls and vice versa, their sexual attraction is often tied up with the intimacy of the corporal punishment they received. Lauren was one such, and she describes … Read more

The magazine (audio)

In the days before the internet, often our first exposure to pornography would be through the medium of a grubby magazine, discarded by its original purchaser. One such incident is … Read more

The fight about the car

When I was young, I got my bottom spanked by my mother pretty regularly. She kept a paddle for her children’s bare behinds and wasn’t afraid to use it. One … Read more

Learning to smack

I got my first babysitting job when I was just 14, and gave my first spanking about a month after I first started looking after the children. My charges were … Read more

Chatterbox chastised

I was a real chatterbox in school, particularly during my primary years, and my talking in class frequently got me into trouble with teachers. One day, when I was in … Read more

Asking for it

During the early 70s in London, I was part of a hard-core group of six children who gathered regularly on the edge of the park, though sometimes our numbers swelled … Read more

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