Out with baby brother
I was spanked a great deal as a child but unfortunately have forgotten nearly all of them in any specific detail. However… more
Wetting Aunt Kathy
When I was four and a half, I spent a few days at my Aunt Kathy’s. Dustin, my five-year-old cousin (not Aunt Kathy&#… more
Hopping mad
I went to a Catholic school in the 70s and early 80s, where the teachers still believed in corporal punishment – and belie… more
Broken promise
I would never have been accused of being a great athlete – but during the long hot summer days of my youth I was never withou… more
The coffee table
I remember getting spanked several times while a young boy – but one particular incident stands out more than others in m… more
The student teacher
I was at a grammar school from 1967 to 1972. I was not good at French and found it very tedious.
But in my second year, we had a … more
Beatings from mother
From a 1970 copy of Forum magazine
I have followed with very great interest the correspondence in your magazine on corpo… more
Out shopping
The most memorable spanking that I remember was after my 16th birthday. I truly thought that I was an adult. The only thin… more
Spanking adventure
When I was in my early teens (in the early 1960s), my mother was required to move out of town for employment and it was deter… more
Going to church
One weekend, when I was eight, my parents were out of town. However, they had instructed my 19-year-old nanny Brandi to t… more
Spanked for wetting
When I was six, my parents went on a business trip for two days and I stayed home with my mom’s friend Amy. She was 18 a… more
Gospel of punishment
The school cafeteria served the same frozen hamburger patty every day –only the name changed, to imply variety. One day … more
Prickly subject
I grew up in small southern town in the mid 70s. Our elementary school used corporal punishment, and back then it was neve… more
Not on the hand
The school my mother sent me to was one of the few to continue using corporal punishment right up to the complete ban by the … more
A quick dip
I grew up in Florida in the late 70s. At this point in time, spankings were not expected but still common. I was in the 6th gr… more
A firm hand
When I was nine or 10, I was something of a brat – but my mom hadn’t spanked me in a couple of years. Then one day, somet… more
The barber shop
My mother was a barber back in the late 60s and early 70s. On weekends, as a small girl, I would go with her to help. She had a n… more
Paddling procedure
I went to a high school where getting swats was common – and males and females were treated the same.
While the vice-princ… more
Thieves for a spanking
When I was about eight, I used to go to a shop to buy sweets after school, usually with my friend David. The woman who ran the … more
Turned around
I was raised as an only child and my mother always tried to be more of a friend than a mother. By the age of 13, I had become unr… more
Getting even
My twin sister Jenny and I were well-behaved kids, but of course we occasionally did something wrong and suffered the co… more
Toying with danger
It was the 50s, and I was five – an only child living in an apartment with my parents. One summer’s day, my mother dec… more
Show and tell
The first time I ever remember being smacked by anyone other than my mum was when I was seven years old. My sister Jennifer … more
Feeling sick
I was six and a half years old when my parents went to Florida to visit a sick member of the family. They left me with ‘… more
My great aunt
I was staying with my great aunt after my parents left for France. She was an old, sour woman with no tolerance for disobed… more
Report card
I grew up in a small town south of Chicago. My best friend in the whole world was the girl next door, Laura. Laura and I playe… more
Trip to the bathroom
When I was really young, about five years old, I attended kindergarten at my neighbourhood public school. Now, I’… more
Teasing Debra
When I was at school, I was a good boy and rarely got into any kind of trouble. One day, however, I was playing with my friend … more
The price of lying
When I was in the second grade, it was fairly common for a child to be paddled for wrongdoing.
Well, one time I lied to a teac… more
First tawsing
I started to attend a local infants school, at the age of five, in 1951. I was generally well behaved but was occasionally … more
Ms Lucille’s method
In the 1946-47 school year, going to the city schools in the Upper South, my second grade teacher was Ms Lucille, who happ… more
Paddled in the hallway
When I was a kid (in the early 60s), I got some occasional tastes of maternal discipline. They were invariably the tradit… more
Mother’s wooden spoon
In my house, in the 1970s, a spanking was a pretty common occurrence. My mother stayed at home to raise her t… more
Well swatted
I grew up in a typical middle-class 1960s household in the midwest, the middle child in a three-daughter family. When we … more