Major moments

Maybe my interest in spanking and corporal punishment helped point me in the direction of an academic career - once I was in the sixth form at school (16 years old - would now be classed as year 12 in UK) we had quite a bit of free time and I often used it to visit the local library for research purposes. It might have served me better had Corporal Punishment been one of the subjects I was supposed to be studying. I especially remember the excitement when i cam across Ian Gibson's book The English Vice. It was fascinating in itself but was the first real point of discovering that a lot of people shared my interests. (Unfortunately I'm going to be unable to post for around a week - be back then and I'll save up some ideas for when I get back.)