Summer Camps

Did anyone receive or witness any spankings at summer camps?

No spankings for me when I went or when my daughters went, but numerous people got "pink bellies" which were intensified by first rubbing tooth paste on the abdomen. Pink bellies are not really punishments like spankings, they are more of a retaliation or redemption sought by a group of campers who may have felt slighted for something.

No, never. I went to a YMCA camp in 1953-54, for 2 weeks each time. If you were bad they would not let you do any activities that you had signed up for. Some really bad acts got sent to their cabins in the day (NO A/C in those days---HOT).

On another topic, if you went to the camp nurse complaining of constipation, she got out her irrigation bucket and you got an enema.

Her son was in my cabin and told us not to go to her for that. No laxatives kept in her office. He told us that at his home he got the bag often. I went to see her for a summer cold and she was about 32 and very pretty. I was already a klysmo, but still too shy to tell her I hadn't gone in a week. She gave me a bottle of Cepacol gargle for my sore throat. If I had been older, I would have told her the GI facts. Missed opportunity?

I never witnessed it but volunteering at a vacation bible school. I know of a very bratty little boy who returned, much better behaved after a very short talk with his grandpa. Not sure what happened, but i suspect his grandpa the pastor took him up to his office for more than a chat. but that is the closet i came to it witnessing anything.

In the cabin across from my cabin a councilor who was in his mid 20's., had a camper who was about 10 years old over his lap with his shorts and undies down around his knees and he was spanking his naughty bare bottom because he was swearing a lot. The councilor's hand covered both cheeks which were turning from light pink to bright red. He was crying hard and promising that he wouldn't say those words any more if he would only stop.

I kept out of the line of sight so I wouldn't get in trouble being a peeping tom. The councilor finally stopped and let the boy cry it out over his lap and then picked him up and rubbed his back and bottom cuddling him in his left shoulder. once he calmed down the councilor stood the boy up and pulled his undies and shorts back up. I waited till they left so I wouldn't be found out.

It wasn't until I saw this question that I remembered on my 12th birthday at Scout Camp one of the adult counselors took me across his knee for a birthday spanking. The boys kept yelling "Harder! Harder!!" - which he obliged - as the spanks rained down on me. It was a very hard spanking, indeed!

I'd totally forgotten about this incident. My parents never spanked me, and the only other spanking I got as a kid was from my 5th grade teacher.

I didn't go to summer camp much. Boy scout camp once or twice. No overnight sports camps when I was growing up. No disciplinary spanking at boy scout camp although it was clear in those days that if there was trouble, a paddling was not out of the question, even there. There was paddling as hazing as boy scout camp but it wasn't by the camp staff. There was a regular wood paddle there that was the same as what would be used at school. The staff ignored that kind of hazing and I wondered if they provided the paddle as it wasn't what anyone would have brought from home.

Both at 7 or 8. Spankings otk bare bottom and were given by the counselor or assistant counselor in front of everyone in the cabin. I guess it was supposed to be a deterrent.

I went to summer camps many times from 7 to 14 y.o. Never saw or heard about spanking there. However, occasionally younger most naughtiest boys were subjected to punishment by stripping naked and cornering.

Not in my experience for sleep-over camps. For campers that broke the rules had to sit out fun activities or were assigned one of the many undesirable chores around camp.

At Vacation Bible School (day camp) a few spankings were delivered. Girls were spanked by the activity teachers (all women) while boys were spanked by the pastor.

The spankings that I witnessed at camp growing up were all done in fun:

At one day camp I attended the losing team in games would have to go through the spanking machine. The winners would line up and spread their legs. The losing team would crawl under the winners, and receive spanks on their upturned shorts clad bottoms.

At an overnight camp run by the local Y, birthday spankings were a big production. At dinner time we would be assembled in the dining hall. Before the meal was served there would be announcements, and then if there were any birthdays of campers or counselors it would be time for the Order of the Oar. A group of counselors would march in carrying a boat oar singing "We are we are we are we are the Order of the Oar". The name(s) of those with birthdays were read and the birthday boy/girl would go up and get swats with the oar for each year plus one more for good luck. It was always a bonus when one of the college aged counselors had their birthday. The swats with the oar were love taps, but it was lots of fun to watch.

I went on a few English summer camp trips as a child/teen. For the less organised kids in my area who didn't go to Scouts, there was a 'Wilderness Camp'. I think it was run by hippies and was more nature loving than the Scout movements planned events. I never witnessed any spankings or even harsh punishments. I was very aware of the poor primitive wood fenced toilet facilities and changing areas. They were located on the forest camp boundary and some of us would sneak around the outer wall in the evenings to peep through the broken slats to see the girls either showering or on the toilets. Its the only time we saw bare buttocks, but they werent being spanked.