Salvati, Bobby, 15, shown with his father Joey, who recently paddled him, and holding the paddle, USA, 2002 Mrs Seaton kept me waiting for a long time, sobbing over her desk, my poor little bottom bouncing up and down as I awaited the last stroke. Finally it came. Another real stinger across the centre of my bottom. I howled out in pain again, but still kept a grip on that desk. I didn't want to earn extra strokes now! After what seemed to be ages, but was probably no more than a minute or two, the door opened again and Mrs Seaton called Lindsey in. regard it as a deterrent. This group punishment also reflects the inferior attitude of teachers on their subordinate pupils and After the sixth stroke I was told to pull my pants up and to behave in her class in future. That night, as I examined my red, smarting bottom in the mirror, I determined that I would do exactly that.

the wrong in a society where corporal punishment is quite common in domestic education as well as legalized by justice for certain After dressing we assembled in the ‘common room’ and marched down another long stone floored hallway to the strains of a march played on the piano by one of the ‘big girls’. This short march brought us to the dining-room. The biggest dining-room I had ever seen. Such a large room filled with long tables and benches with a servicing table in the middle of the room. Twelve girls at each table with a prefect at the head. Ofsted’s damning report of poor management, weak discipline and terrible exam results, has designated the school as failing. He wants to sa Our unique long-standing event - it happens just once a year - where we joyfully celebrate this English vice. My legs were trembling as I stretched myself over the desk. It was wide and I could only just hold onto the edge with my toes on the floor. I tried to make my grip as firm as possible and closed my eyes tight shut and waited.

Downes, Joshua, age not stated, English private schoolboy who supports CP, interviewed on TV about being caned, 1996 (also video clip) US Virgin Islands: Teachers demonstrating in protest against the prospect of no longer being allowed to use corporal punishment, 2010

Gas masks became a part of ourselves, hanging from our shoulders whenever we left the house. We awoke one night to the sound of the air raid siren … the very first time, and the first of so many times … Of course we were absolutely terrified, threw on our dressing gowns and put on our gas masks, the only time I think that we ever wore them – ran downstairs and huddled under the stairs in the pantry. This, we had been told, was the safest place in the house. Our hands shook so much that the candles went out, but we held hands and prayed that if a bomb did drop on us that we would all go together.Peru: Youth being strapped by his father over his shorts, apparently under police supervision, 2018 (also video clip)

All our shipments are sent very discreetly - there will be no indication of the contents on the outside of the envelope, and nothing porn-related will appear on the envelope as the sender. Best price guarantee USA: Burke, Doug, Texas high-school principal, paddled 12 boys at one go in 1996 for hazing, including senior football stars United States: demonstration by Rev. Arthur Allen Jnr of whipping of 14-year-old boy in church, 2002Barnett, Amber, now 21, pictured with a signboard reading "Thank you for spanking me Dad", USA, 2008 Why, oh why, did I always have to cry? The minute I felt my Mother’s arms around me I would start. No-one could have been happier than I, but from the minute Mummie arrived until the time she left, I would hang onto her … hardly leaving her room to walk, and weep away uncontrollably. I would think of all the million and one things I wanted to tell her, but not be able to say a word. All day I was unable to believe that she was really with us, and immediately started worrying about how soon she would have to leave. How lonely we did feel after all the visitors had left. It was always a very quiet procession in to tea on visitors’ day.