I'll probably be in a very small minority for liking this picture, but it wouldn't do if we all liked the same! I like it because at the time I was growing up and at school, it was relatively rare for girls to get corporal punishment at school but if they did it was most likely to be a strap across their hands, so this represents a scene that would have happened for real many, many times. Clearly the tendency to not punish girls across their bottoms (while regrettable to many of us) would have been because of the sexual overtones although it would probably not have occurred to many at the time that a girl being punished on her bottom, not far from her genitalia, might actually get some sexual stimulation from it. In any case, punishment to the hands is such more pure and simple. It is punishment full stop. I for one always had some concerns about caning on the hands as having some risks of injury but a belt has very low risk while giving the recipient something they won't forget in a hurry. this lovely young lady doesn't appear to be getting any enjoyment at all from the experience.
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This actually reminds me of my school days. I was sent to old fashioned Catholic schools where the nuns disciplined us quite often with rulers across our palms and if we were really bad, they used a yardstick on our thighs! We had to bend over the teachers desk facing the class. They could not see our skirts rising up but they could see the pain and/or tears on our faces. The boys did not have to drop their pants so they actually had more padding! :(
Hugs and blessings...Cat
Cat - thanks for the comment. Interesting memories.
I was caned at school on the hands and was once the most caned girl (I was a little cow). Unless the cane hit you dead centre of the palm it caught fingers or wrists both of which could be dangerous. It is also nastier because you have to watch the instrument descend onto your hands and trust me that is not easy. Of course further punishment resulted if you pulled your hand away. I got spanked on the bum at home and would have much rather been caned on it than on the hands. The girl in the picture would not have been in the right at my school. The hand had to be held out straight at right angles to the body. If more than one stroke were being given to the hand then it had to remain up. Think about that.
My word Cat and Susan have provided real memory and I find myself quite weak. Any chance of more girls?
Old Tom
Thank you for the feedback Susan - I'm interested to know why you find yourself drawn to a blog like this today? I must admit my school only used the cane (officially) and various other implements (unofficially) on the bottom and when I first heard of people being caned on the hands I was horrified. However I have had it demonstrated (on me) that it could be done safely if the person administering it was skilled enough and the recipient managed to keep their hand still. I suspect in practice that some teachers were irresponsible with hand caning and didn't take enough care and also maybe used rather more force than was needed. However, a caning on the bottom carries almost none of the risks so even a caring and responsible teacher could use considerably more force. I think everyone imagines other alternatives to what they were subject to would have been preferable. For example I know many boys resented being in schools where they could be caned and girls, if they ever got hit at all, "just" got the slipper (dab / sand-shoe / plimsoll / gym-shoe) and that was seen as a soft option - those that received a slippering would probably beg to differ because it allowed the teacher to use as much force as possible without needing to 'stop' at the point of impact.
James, you are in effect, asking me why I am interested in spanking. I really have no idea. Do any of us? As to making a comment or two. Well I have lurked for a long time but 2016 was a terrible year for me. Normally, however, I reside in the fourth link from the bottom of your links list. Best wishes for 2017
Susan - I suppose that many people would see we have been psychologically harmed by what went on in school. Speaking for myself, I really don't think that is the case. My interest was aroused long before I went to a school that used corporal punishment to any real extent. I think the later school environment gave me one source of fuel to build the fascination but it was just one of several including many a happy hour spent in the reference and non-fiction sections of libraries. By the time I discovered that I wasn't alone in the interest it was already very firmly part of who I am.
I did see a 15 year old girl publicly caned on her bottom at school in the mid seventies by a middle-aged male sports teacher. He told her to turn round but did not make her bend over as she was wearing a short skirt and had bare legs. There was just one very hard stroke which she took very well, just looking back over her shoulder in disgust.
Hi James,
Bare sensitive bottoms are made for spanking. Legs and hands are not. Maximum safety, maximum sting. And some humbling required.
A fascinating post & comments. At home I never gotten spanked on my hands or legs - my mother said it was cruel and inappropriate. This was a fascinating philosophy to me as a child in the 1960s. The "rod of correction" in our house was a very, thin, rattan cane - "the flexible switch" - common in the South, as was the leather strap. Sister and me always gotten whooped with the cane on the bare skin of our bottoms with our dresses raised and our panties pulled down to our knees, in the living room, bending over the sofa. No compromise ! We gotten "punished in front of God" as mom said.
My mother did not say that was cruel. In fact she said her whoopings were kind and an essential part of a loving, normal Christian upbringing. The Church advocated her whoopings as part of normal family values. No PC or Snowflakes back then. Naughty steps were not yet invented. Oh my !
We girls just gotten used to this corporal punishment and most of our girlfriend peers from Church gotten spanked already. A bare bottom caning (with light flicks) is totally harmless but causes a real nasty sting - that was the idea. "It'is punishment Brenda", as mother used to say, "It is supposed to sting".
I agree with my mom. Whipping our legs or hands would be dangerous and brutal, but our chubby, well-padded, soft, sensitive-skinned bottoms offered an appropriate place "provided by God" for a mother's loving chastisement in the traditional fashion. It was a normal part of Southern family life. And still is ! I raised my own two daughters the same strict way in the 1980s/1990s, James.
A "switching" or the "hornets nest" (as sister and me called it) on a tender, bare botty was harmless, harsh but fair parental discipline. "Spare the rod spoil the child", James.
And I never knew it any other way growing up in 1960s Atlanta, Georgia. Sure taught me right from wrong. It was "kind" as my mom said !
Regards.
Brenda xx
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