A Very Public Spanking for Carmen

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Canada, much clearer picture of the paddling table over which prisoners were bent to receive judicial punishment in federal penitentiary, 1903 to 1968

Botswana: Tebogo Malete, 27, receiving five strokes of the cane on his bare seat at traditional court, for housebreaking, 2005 United States: Two TV news reports from June 2010 about an attempt to reintroduce school paddling in Memphis, Tennessee. United Kingdom, 1935 whipping frame from Wandsworth Prison, on display in a museum, together with its designer's drawings United Kingdom, schoolboy attempting to destroy school cane on abolition of CP in Inner London, 1981 Those contemptuous of legal authority are sentenced to copy the Constitution of the United States in longhand.United Kingdom: modern lithograph imagines William Shakespeare about to be birched as a schoolboy, c.1580

Have you a guilty conscience?’ Have you a need? An itch that needs to be scratched?’ Would physical chastisement help?’ United States, large school paddle with holes, bears some of its recipients' signatures, date and place unknown United Kingdom: A three-minute TV item in which a caning headmaster, and three caned boys, are interviewed (1996). Singapore: Real-life footage of four formal, English-style canings over bending schoolboys' trousers.

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City Judge William Obermiller has been sentencing young drinkers and drag racers to such unusual punishment as public spanking in open court. Santos, Taylor, high school sophomore, spanked by male administrator in Texas, pictured with her mother, 2012 (also video clip)

Indonesia (Aceh): road sign warning transgressors against Islamic law that they will be caned, c.2007 United States: TV news report (May 2015) on contrasting paddling policies in two Texas school districts.

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A more general piece about paddling in certain East Texas school districts, and what people think about it. United States (probably): man paddles small boy, jocular posed picture artificially coloured, possibly c.1900 South Korea: Eleven real-life clips of schoolboys receiving discipline across the seat of their trousers.

United States: TV news report, Jan 2012: A mother complains about school paddling of her son, even though she had given permission for it. And the thing is I'd like to be able to form a stable relationship. I'd like to love a man. I'm ashamed of having so many sexual partners. But it seems like I can't restrain myself, and it breaks my heart. The leaving of school behind her and the journey home was sullen. The man in the bowler hat frowned at her as if he knew. The walk from the bus stop to her lovely cottage was heavy and slow. Two of Mummy’s friends saw her and nudged each other. Was that a snigger? Her mummy, was at the very least, delighted! “Ohhh you clever girl Karen, you have made your Mummy so very proud. This Saturday, we are off to town you and I, we will go to Rushet’s Cafe on the High Street, and I’ll take you to your favourite bakers and get you a lovely cream cake to have after Sunday tea! Then my dear, we will go looking at uniforms and satchels. You are going to look lovely, you deserve the best….well done!” United States: juvenile delinquent being spanked by police on instructions of Mayor, New Jersey, 1920In a jocular atmosphere in a Texas high-school classroom, a sports coach administers one paddle swat. So that's finally what I needed to tell. I'm sorry for the length of my text... I think I needed to be meticulous. It wasn't easy to write. I'd like to know if someone could understand and explain to me why I feel and act this way. Without doubt there would be a degree of jealousy from some with troublesome daughters too, and even though she would never admit it, that gave her satisfaction too!