Frame from a comic strip, "Little Nemo in Slumberland", by Winsor McCay, in the New York Herald, 7 February 1909. The story is set in a school, where the principal has installed the new "Patent Automatic Corrector, Electric Manipulator and Spanking Administrator". Size– I love how compact this spanking machine is. It is just over 8 and a half inches tall, and just over 3 inches wide (not including the holding arm/base). The utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was one of the first writers to contemplate the possibility that corporal punishment might be administered by a machine rather than by a human being. In The Rationale of Punishment he wrote: On 5 it was a pretty good sting. On 10 I found out where someone else got the expression, “cutting down trees”! I don’t know that I could stand still for that and I’m pretty certain it left a mark! So if nothing else works as well, I know this certainly does! Intensity Setting– So this has an intensity setting from “1” which is the minimum intensity, to “MAX” which is one step above the “10” setting. You simply push in and turn the dial to the desired intensity.

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A machine might be made, which should put in motion certain elastic rods of cane or whalebone, the number and size of which might be determined by the law: the body of the delinquent might be subjected to the strokes of these rods, and the force and rapidity with which they should be applied, might be prescribed by the Judge: thus everything which is arbitrary might be removed. Inventor Otto Tuchenhagen, with 80 patents already to his name, submitted this design to the German Patent Office, and it was written up at length in a perfectly serious magazine (title and date not yet to hand). He thought the reintroduction of judicial CP for young delinquents would save the taxpayer a lot of money on reformatories and prisons. His machine, of which he proposed installing 2,000 examples all over West Germany (as it then was), would deliver a judicial caning in a humane and consistent manner. Another illustration from an English boys' school story. Not having the story itself to hand, I am not sure who the sinister hooded figures are supposed to be. Note the transition from birch in the previous example to cane here. Of course, I set it to “MAX” to see what’s up. 🤔 I mean, have you SEEN my wife spank me? So I wasn’t too afraid…but having said that, I did have both my pants and underwear on, AND the controller in my hand ready to turn it off in case it started to slice and dice me. 😅 Timer Mode – You can set the timer from 1 to 5 minutes of spanking, and you can watch it count down to the end. Can you make it all the way through? So like I said, some very cool features with this little timer. Note: You can also use the spanking machine without the timer, but I’m not sure why someone would want to do that?However, the following video clip is either of the same machine or something more or less identical, and gives a clearer impression of the mechanism: Assembly– Most of the time, I am team “follow the assembly directions”, but after pulling all the parts out, and looking at them, it was extremely easy to put together. That said, I DO recommend reading the instructions before actually using the device, as there are some important operating instructions.

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Of all these different modes of punishment, whipping is the most frequently in use; but in whipping not even the qualities of the instrument are ascertained by written law: while the quantity of force to be employed in its application is altogether intrusted to the caprice of the executioner. He may make the punishment as trifling or as severe as he pleases. He may derive from this power a source of revenue, so that the offender will be punished, not in proportion to his offence, but to his poverty. If he has been unfortunate, and not able to secure his plunder, or honest, and has voluntarily given it up, and thus has nothing left to make a sop for Cerberus, he suffers the rigour -- perhaps more than the rigour -- of the law. Good fortune and perseverance, in dishonesty, would have enabled him to buy indulgence. I had trouble with the heavier implements especially causing the machine to work it’s way loose. I was using a rubber placemat, but I think a few layers of gripping material like they show in the instruction video is going to be important to have. I also couldn’t get all of the screws tightened completely so the machine moved a little too much. I thought it was supposed to come with a mini screwdriver, but did not and the smallest one I had on hand wasn't quite small enough. Continuous Mode – Once you turn on, this spanking machine starts spanking and doesn’t stop until you turn it off.

Here from Germany is a fantasy of automated mass spanking on a truly industrial scale. It comes from Die Körperstrafen bei allen Völkern ("Corporal punishment amongst all peoples"), by Dr Richard Wrede (1898), who attributes it to a magazine, "Fliegenden Blättern", of 1856. It does not look to me as if it could have worked very effectively. I can guarantee this design would be more than satisfactory, and if you wanted to make it even stronger you could add more springs. I plan to write up a full guide within a week or two of building this thing from start to finish. The offender stands on the yellow platform with his front against the red pad, and bends over the pillar, grasping the red handles low down on the other side. In so doing, he presents the tautened seat of his pants to the cane, which is on a spring and which strikes when a catch is released, unfortunately not clearly shown in the pictures. The machine folds up when not in use, and has two wheels at the base enabling it to be pulled easily from one classroom to the next. Holding Arm/Base– It comes with a clamp and an arm that you attached the spanking machine to. The clamp should be attached to something sturdy and tight enough so that won’t slip, and the spanking machine can be rotated in the arm, in almost any position. This can accommodate the bent over position, the butt over a pillow position, or a laying flat on the bed position. Very versatile and pretty easy to set up.

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Implement Holder– The implement holder on the side, where you clamp your spanking implements into. The width available to put an implement in, was a little smaller than I would have wanted. When I tried to put a Lexan cane in there, it wouldn’t fit because of the foam/rubber handle on the cane was a little wider in girth, than the opening of the clamp area. But I was able to remove the handle on the cane, and then the cane fit in quite easily.Mounting hardware is not as claimed, and is a bit sloppy in general which will be causing some loss of energy from the “business end”. Single mother Angie has no alternative but to accept the corporal punishment option in retribution for her eleven driving offences. The procedure on the floors below the County Jail is designed to humiliate and, she is soon to learn, the new technology is guaranteed to terrify and to hurt! Setting it up is easy. I am not at all mechanical and probably could have figured it out on my own, but they send you instructions and a video showing how to put it all together and use it. Historically, the vast majority of references to spanking machines appear to be merely in the form of ideas or concepts but there was at least one which was actually manufactured and sold. This is in a picture agency's library but I have not been able to find out where it originally came from or what it is precisely. From the clothes of the boy being disciplined, it might be 1930s or 1940s but that is only a guess. The machine appears real, but it is hard to see from this picture quite how it works. One can make out what appears to be a small wooden paddle.