Anyway, along with my belt, I wore one of my favorite pairs of belt whuppin’ sandals…a pair of dark brown, leather Rainbow thongs. Kind of hard to tell from the picture, but the color of them matches closely to the color of my belt. His fellow monks became concerned and asked him to abandon either the idea or the monastery. He chose the latter option, and he soon had throngs of fans coming to see him attempt to live in his chosen way. Simeon crouched on a 46-centimeter-wide (18 in) slab atop that pillar for at least 37 years. He became so popular that at one time, most shops in Rome had little portraits of him sitting on the pillars of their doorways. and (8) Two reports about a mass march on the archdiocese in the ongoing attempt to restore paddling at St Augustine High in New Orleans.

United Kingdom: TV news report: A group of Christian schools take legal action against the ban on school CP (1999). United States: TV news report (June 2014) on the acquittal on assault charges of a school principal in Mississippi who had paddled three boys. Members of a commando unit in the Malaysian army get an unofficial on-the-spot caning in front of their comrades. News report, March 2018: Interview with student who agreed to accept posterial CP from his Korean martial-arts instructor. The youth's father, who supported the punishment, also speaks. A more general piece about paddling in certain East Texas school districts, and what people think about it.A present-day British soldier is "sentenced" by his mates to a pants-down slippering (2007). It is a light-hearted affair, but a real punishment none the less. A very brief glimpse of a hard paddle swat administered at a private Catholic boys' high school in Louisiana. I thought we’d do something a little different or special for this post. That is…co-posting. We’re each going to recap the events leading up to, during, and after the spanking from our own perspectives. Should be interesting, yes?

Returning from work Marco discovers that the said bottle is missing and after confronting Johnny it doesn’t take long to work out where it had gone. TV news item from Jan 2008 about the paddling of a student. His mother had given permission for the punishment, but then complained when it left marks on his rear. An investigation found there had been no abuse or wrongdoing on the part of the school. Two clips from North Carolina and one from Georgia look at the state of play over school paddling in specific places.Secondary boys in uniform are lined up at a college in Rawalpindi to receive one stroke of the cane each. United States: TV news report (Mar 2014): A newly created school district in Tennessee decides to introduce corporal punishment.

United States: TV news report on school CP, June 2011: Developments in the continuing dispute over paddling at St Augustine High School, New Orleans. I have more often seen the aftermath—scars, burns, lashes—the traces but not the trauma that reside below the surface,” Meiselas adds. “The everydayness of this engagement haunted me for a long time about the comfort of cruelty.” United States: TV news report (Feb 2015) about an (unsuccessful) attempt to abolish school paddling in Tennessee. Singapore: TV news broadcast from April 1994 on the vandalism case involving Michael Fay but also, shown speaking here, 17-year-old Andy Shiu Chi Ho, who was to be caned (6 strokes) two months after this appearance. Brief film of a another public caning of that era, and of the offender being carried away afterwards.The dreaded bath brush is used regularly in our home and believe me my wife is an expert with it. Once I am in position over her lap she uses it to reduce me to a bawling very sorry husband and I love it.

minute news report from Florida (2007) about a man who is in trouble for spanking his 8-year-old son with a belt. Includes interview with the man and his lawyer. A TV news report (Jan 2008) on a proposal to abolish school CP in Ohio, including an interview with a high-school principal who uses the paddle. I went on about my day, got into my work, and didn’t realize the amount of time that passed. Until I got the above mentioned text, which popped up on my computer screen. A rare piece of historic actuality: four-minute extract from a 1978 TV documentary showing a high-school punishment session in Pennsylvania. Colombia: More public whippings on the legs by tribal custom, this time of three FARC rebels for disturbing the peace. With news item (2012).United States: Members of the public are interviewed in Fayetteville, North Carolina, April 2007, on their views about corporal punishment in school in light of a bill to abolish paddling in the state. A cilice (aka hair shirt) was an uncomfortable—and sometimes outright painful—garment worn underneath regular clothes, which allowed one to “mortify the flesh” and strengthen the spirit. Early Christians made these outfits using coarse goat hair and burlap-like fabric and wore them as undershirts and loincloths. This ancient practice saw its greatest resurgence in medieval Europe, where it became popular among ascetics, saints, and leaders. News report (Dec 2007) about the paddling of a boy, 11, in a Tennessee middle school. His grandmother had given permission for the punishment, but then complained that the swats were too hard. The district superintendent is interviewed.