In fact, back in 1916 a New York City newspaper ran a series of letters from wives who regularly spanked their wayward husbands. This difficult transition involved falling from their previous genteel state whilst continuing to cling to the social forms of behaviour which marked their former state. js_anon has a talent for writing verse, and some of his poems feature the governess, as in The Governess and The Cane; The Governess - Much Angrier; and The Husband's Governess.

Here are a few extracts from some of the governess stories available in the Library of Spanking Fiction. Because like the prostitute, many a governess was propelled into the domestic heart of the upper and middle classes from the world of financial desperation and reduced circumstances. Weeping openly, wailing for mercy, Becky squealed as the crop kissed her buttocks and upper thighs, each stroke leaving a long, crimson welt. She’s getting a little tight back here, Connie,” Uncle Ted remarked, rotating his finger deep in Rebecka’s asshole. Hold your horses, young lady,” she said, working the bulbed nozzle past her daughter’s spasming anus.

For example, it is doubtful that the following extract published in the December 1868 edition was sent in by 'a loving mother'. This was followed by a taste of the tawse a few hours later and then, just before bedtime the paddle was used to end the day. There was an odd, almost ritual quality to the whole thing, Dani thought, is if they’d all been through it a thousand times.

In 1913, a Cleveland judge decided it was okay for a father to spank his daughter, age twenty-five, with a shingle, of all things.When Danielle’s father remarried, his young wife Elise insisted on a summer-long honeymoon in Europe. While we may all have our own opinions about spanking children, there does come a time when you have to let your children lead their own lives. Love it or hate it (many fetish lifestylers remain unimpressed), but books and movies like the Fifty Shades franchise have brought practices that were once considered taboo into our homes and living rooms, removing the mystique, and heightening people’s curiosity in the process. In other faiths like Catholicism, spanking was administered to remove the sins of the individual being spanked.