USA: Hargrays, Courtney, Chicago basketball coach under investigation for illegally paddling players, 2008 Brunei: school students look at picture supposedly showing the results of a judicial caning, c.2000 You can’t,” I cried. “I’d never live it down. My boss would never understand, and my friends would think I was a wimp if they knew Lucille had been spanking me over her knee like a child all these years.” United States: college students pretending to paddle a fellow-student with huge planks, Texas, early 20th century Malaysia: secondary student receiving the cane in school office while another awaits his turn, 2003 (might be posed, but quite possibly real) (for the real thing captured on film, see video clips)

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UK: Kendrew, Colonel D.A., Commandant of Army Apprentice School, UK, defends policy of caning boys aged 14½ to 17½, 1948 United Kingdom, juvenile birching pony, Beamish Museum, from a police station in Sunderland (two views) Canada, big paddle said to be in daily use at St John's School, tough boarding school for boys in Alberta, 2002Dummy demonstrations or artists' impressions of prison, military, reformatory or slave corporal punishment - For what seemed like the longest time, I stood there dumbfounded, staring at this diminutive but imperious female before me. I countered by saying that I was too old to be spanked, and asked what would happen if I simply refused to submit to the punishment, as she wasn’t my parent nor my teacher. This was actually very untypical and rather daring of me – but Aunt Pam simply said that I was most certainly not too old to be spanked. “Boys are at their naughtiest in their teens – they need more spanking rather than less as they get older!” she said. Trinidad: Samuel, Brother Michael, retiring principal of boys' school, believes a spanking can change a pupil's attitude for the better, 2002 Canada: prisoners in yard after riot, shortly before ringleaders flogged, 1952 (poor-quality photo)

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Walker, Calvin, 17, high-school footballer, brother of Sergio Kindle (q.v.), paddled by father, USA, 2006 United States: high-school student in North Carolina receiving birthday spanking in class, 2014 (also video clip) Canada, much clearer picture of the paddling table over which prisoners were bent to receive judicial punishment in federal penitentiary, 1903 to 1968Australia: boys of Frank Dando Sports Academy, one of the last schools using caning in Victoria, 2005

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The imperious demand: “What do you think you are doing?” suddenly snatched me from my reverie. “You were told to clean this place up!” Vera had entered the room without my noticing. Spankings were common after that first one, ranging from what Lucille referred to as, “a nice little spanking,” applied when she wanted to get my attention, to an all-out and prolonged punishment paddling to correct some willful misbehavior. Always fair, Lucille was also always strict and demanding. Always, that is, until two weeks ago when she suddenly left me, losing a brief but spirited bought with cancer. UK: Wildman, Eric, campaigner for corporal punishment and retailer of canes, shown displaying his wares, 1947Yes. Yes, I do,” I blurted after only a short pause, sensing a slight twitch in the paddle resting on my hypersensitive behind. Taiwan: Democratic Progressive Party politicians, campaigning for the introduction of judicial CP, display a whip at press conference, 2007 I was actually Jewish, so Pam was not a blood aunt, but an ‘auntie’ – a friend of the family. When I turned 13 – the age of confirmation and ‘manhood’ in both Judaism and Christianity – her attitude towards me became a little less playful and rather more stern.