I do like it when someone takes a traditional school CP scene and brings it up to date. We all know that, certainly in the UK, corporal punishment won't be coming back to our schools anytime soon, or, indeed, ever. But just imagine, if it did...
Some schools enforce old-fashioned uniform rules, and the girls all wear knee-length skirts. However, visit your average comprehensive and there is a lot more latitude. If a modern-day schoolgirl were faced with being caned across her bottom, there seem to be two possibilities. One possibility is that that they would be wearing an obscenely short skirt over dark black tights and if they bent over in time-honoured fashion they would probably be exposing an alarmingly scant pair of knickers, thinly veiled by their tights, and the caning would, to all intents and purposes, be on their bare bottoms. The other is that they would be wearing a pair of tight, stretchy trousers, which might be a little less explicit, but which, nonetheless, would provide an excellent outline of the target area. Given advance notice that a caning was a distinct possibility when visiting the head's office, I suspect many would choose to wear a pair of trousers that day. And I might be in a minority of one, but I quite like the idea of delivering six firm strokes of the cane across a tightly trousered posterior. I'm sure the recipient would quickly learn that tight trousers only provide for an illusion of protection from the first sharp crack to the last.
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Looking at that picture, I can almost hear the swish of the cane through the air, and the thundering 'crack' as it lands on its target.
Indeed, implacable logic, just like the implacable smack!
I wonder where that pic comes from ...
B
Awesome analysis dear James, as always. Nice narrative, thank you.
Pray, I always do seem to agree with you and B :-)
Yes, I can definitely hear the thwip-thwap-SMACK !
Oh my! Growing up in the 1960s, my sister & I were very much goody two-shoes girls at school. Why ? Because, with letters sent home to strict parents in yore, we were acutely cognizant that while the cane was applied to clothed buttocks at school (as shown in the photo), it was rather alarmingly applied to our unclothed buttocks without exception from mom at home !
Boo-Hoo botties :-(
Quite right too and indeed certainly appropriate (if rather Spartan) in retrospect for our learning (and our denuded, fairy- soft seats of learning !!) But alas, and notwithstanding, it was still best avoided, already ! Oh my!!
Kind regards & stingy nostalgia
Brenda xx
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