Of course, when I had no resistance left she stopped punishing me, and instead leaned down and hugged me. I remember hearing it from across the house as my older siblings were in the laundry room with the door shut. Although, I had not been beaten as a schoolboy, that could not be said of the other chums in the house.

I may be an old man now with not many years left, but, the sheer joy of corporal punishment will never leave me. Health reasons consisted in my parent‘s belief that it is necessary for kids to wear as less as possible especially during hot summer days and another health reason was that good parents must control hygiene and development of child‘s total body.When I was really young I would try to get my teenage brother in trouble but to be fair he tried to get me in trouble a lot too and teased me a lot.

The carpet pattern that was inches from nose was already blurry as the tears welled up in my eyes and trickled down my cheeks. We both knew that if she attempted to try and get up or reach behind, she would receive additional spanks. Sometimes of course they let me stay out later, like if I had permission to spend the night at a friend's house. His books Dare to Discipline and The Strong-Willed Child outline steps for parents to follow to make their children compliant.The first was at age 7 when I was caught playing doctor with the five year old daughter of the school director. I was never quite sure if Mom reached this conclusion on her own, or if it was Dad’s decision for us, or if they worked it out together. And yet, when I share these details I am always met with the response that my experience is clearly abuse and that is not what the debater is talking about. I wasn’t seventeen years old anymore and in high school, suddenly I was five and back in kindergarten, at least that it was what it felt like. And keep in mind that if your sisters’ or your brother disobey me in the future and you have anything to do with it, I’ll take a strap to your bare bottom, and I’ll take them over my knee in front of you again.

They would wait the necessary 10 minutes to cool down (while making me wait cowering and scared shitless in the laundry room or their bedroom) so they weren’t “spanking out of anger. I was always their little girl and had long ago thrown every bit of boys clothes out and decorated my room so prettily.Additional content warning for Polly’s story: descriptions of sexual arousal from corporal punishment. I don’t believe the cane was actually banned, rather the headmaster, who I later learned had Quaker leanings, did not believe in using physical violence. It was as if he were beating a carpet, he used so much force to connect his rattan cane with my stretched bum.