Following on from my last rant, I thought this would make a good favourite for April. Taken from Janus 62 this photostory featured one of the most credible schoolgirl canings they ever ran.
Marjorie Jenkins looked every bit the cute petite teenage schoolgirl she was meant to represent - she was dressed properly for school and appeared genuinely frightened to find herself in the headmaster's office for a caning which she had clearly never experienced before. The headmaster was stern and unrelenting - she had to bend over properly without even the benefit of a table or chair back to help her, and her short skirt was moved out of the way. This wasn't one of those scenes with lots of not very hard cane strokes - he gave her a straightforward traditional six of the best that had her fighting back the tears. He then humiliated her further by making her take her knickers down so he could see the effect of the caning and then ordered her to get out of the office. There's a great image of her looking very tearful running for door - something I can't recall seeing in any other similar photo sequence. It's short (one the the perceived benefits of corporal punishment in school for both sides was that it was quickly over with) and she played the role superbly. Having just dug out the relevant back issue I'll post a lower resolution version of the full sequence in a day or so.
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Pioneering authenticity
Yes, James, I sure remember this the first time around. It was typical of the Janus photos & stories (& films!) covering corporal punishment in schools & homes in the late 1970s to mid 1980s. I was a student in Atlanta, & gotten my new-found freedom having escaped my strict, religious upbringing. I found Janus & Roue/London Life etc so compelling & so I gotten to visit the stores for the magazines, with excitement.
Even the British school scenes translated well into my own childhood spankings, because the Janus stories & photo were realistic & authentic. They were suitably stern, spartan & no-nonsense. And they featured harsh but fair & realistic punishments with good actors & authentic naughty girls. I loved the domestic father/daughter & mother/daughter (especially!) scenes most of all, especially the canings, which is how I gotten punished as a child.
Why, the sound of a rattan cane smacking the bare buttocks of two misbehaving lil' daughters emanated from our suburban house in Atlanta, normally & routinely in the 1960s/70s, James. That was the punishment. My sister & me gotten raised very sternly in the normal Christian tradition of "spanking with love" & "don't spare the rod".
Our good family friends, the elderly pious neighbours, only metres away next door, could actually hear the cane landing on our bare backsides & of course, our loud princess screaming & sorrowful wailing was clearly audible. Oh my! The relentless sting of the rod on our sensitive bare bums was Hell on Earth. As it darn well needed to be with appropriate & safe moderation, James. It was proper, deserved punishment!
We went to Church with our neighbours, & our mother would frequently talk to them in our shared homes, & tell them in detail about our misdemeanours & salutary spankings with the cane in the living room, with our 1950s canary yellow dresses hoisted & our 1950s cotton, white knicks pulled down !! The religious neighbours enthusiastically approved & said we were loved & chastised in front of God. Oh my! Corporal punishment was openly discussed by Church Ministers & parents at every turn. It was integral to Christian family values & Southern way of life.
This photo (despite British classroom appeal!) does remind me of being whipped by mom in the living room in the 1960s. Or maybe myself seeing my younger sister gotten whooped, already. After some brief scolding, we gotten our knickers pulled down to our knees, from the get-go, without exception, (all strokes of the rod were on bare skin ) & we suffered a good bakers' dozen on a bare botty with the cane. No wishy-washy tickle-tail. Yes, we screamed a bunch. Mother was an expert bottom smacker! Oh my! Then we gotten our panties pulled back up & sent to our rooms in serious discomfort. There was no corner time. It was simple, real harsh & very spartan, James !! It did us good over the years. A well-smacked botty was Oh so necessary.
Corporal punishment is still the silent majority rule in Georgia homes today. But it hovers around 54%. In my 1960s childhood, I reckon it was 99% ha-ha! Ok James, maybe more like 90%. I have no stats to hand. And my mother was known for being one of the strictest proponents of whooping. But I do stress that bare bottom canings are totally harmless & salutary. Why, I then raised my own two daughters (now grown up) exactly the same way in the 1980s & 1990s.
Out came my same trusty, whippy-thin cane, & down came their panties. Boo-Hoos a bunch. Job done. It sure was necessary. House cordiality, peace & tranquility gotten restored & rescued from naughty lil' brats ! They are now my wonderful girls, who are very pro-spanking, already. We are just a normal, typical Southern family, in practice.
Thank you & kind regards for your awesome, nostalgic posts, James.
Brenda xx
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