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United Kingdom: modern lithograph imagines William Shakespeare about to be birched as a schoolboy, c.1580 United States, Washington State school paddle labelled "The Educator" hanging in former principal's garage Right, I’m going’ I shouted, and without waiting for a reply, left the house. I crossed the garden, stepped onto the pavement and pushed open the next door gate. I hesitated slightly, and glanced up at the house, which was strangely foreboding. In a moment of decision and commitment, I strode up the path and rang the bell.
A similar sensation, but with all aspects amplified. A louder cry, tighter fingers squeezing the edges of the table. Gasping, no need to be reminded to breather this time, I fought to control myself… Graphic footage of a different Malaysian judicial caning. Full-length version of a 10-stroke caning for which we previously had only an "edited highlights" version. Singapore: secondary student gets two strokes of the cane in front of his class, c.2006 (also video clip) College boys celebrate attaining adulthood by receiving 18 whoops with a belt on the seat of their jeans in a Polish birthday tradition.This cane was a game changer and became the thing I feared most. It also made a few trips on vacation with us as it is a quiet implement. If I acted up during our vacation, even though we were in a hotel room, she would just have me grab a pillow to cry out into it and then the lashes would start landing. In a different part of Peru, three teen boys are tried and whipped by a village court for stealing. And – just to do away with that old fairy-tail spread by he rattan cane makers: Bamboo will not split if you keep it out of the sun and inside the house. Canada, "the machine" into which prisoners were secured for paddling in Ontario provincial institutions, 1950s (clear computer-generated b/w drawing from the photograph)
South Africa: Magolego, Monhle, leader of vigilante group which administers unofficial floggings to criminals, 2000 Sometimes, a whole class could get a ‘double stripe’ for rowdiness. Then, if you just got a single stripe on top of that, you were for it. A bit unfair, but this was Anne’s situation. I had also accumulated three stripes this way myself a couple of times, but for some reason escaped with just a telling-off. United Kingdom: artist's impression of flogging of junior seaman over the bare breech on board ship, c.1850 Salvati, Bobby, 15, shown with his father Joey, who recently paddled him, and holding the paddle, USA, 2002 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.She took hold of my chin and looked me in the eye. “You’ve got the face of an angel and hands that are a gift from God. Now let’s see if you’ve got a nice little bottom that the Lord made for spanking, shall we? Take your trousers down!” Segment from a daytime TV chat show discussing a survey which found that many parents would like to see corporal punishment reintroduced in schools. USA: Hargrays, Courtney, Chicago basketball coach under investigation for illegally paddling players, 2008 United States: TV news report (Feb 2015) about an (unsuccessful) attempt to abolish school paddling in Tennessee.
Tuanku Ja'afar Ibni Al-Marhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Sultan of Negeri Sembilan, King of Malaysia 1994-1999, recalls boarding school canings in 1930s Secondary boys in uniform are lined up at a college in Rawalpindi to receive one stroke of the cane each. Canada, much clearer picture of the paddling table over which prisoners were bent to receive judicial punishment in federal penitentiary, 1903 to 1968 TV news segment from Tennessee (Dec 2009) about a strange case in which high-school students negotiated to get swats instead of doing their work. Cornell, Colton, Texas high-school senior, paddled several times in 2012, two pictures (also video clip)Malaysia: McGregor, Dr Alistair, former boys' school headmaster, made liberal use of cane, pictured in 1961 with class of students and now aged 74 But she was savouring the moment, as promised. She walked round the table and took her position to my left. In a humorous advertisement for a chain of sports-shoe shops, a young woman tries out various different sneakers with which to punish her boyfriend across the seat of his boxers. Part of our "Spank while you sell" feature on CP imagery in advertising.
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