Implements of Correction and the Country they are Associated With

Mom was the primary disciplinarian, I was never spanked by my father.

Mom used her hand, her leather sandal and one of dads leather belts. All were bare bottom, pants and underpants pulled down

My Aunt used a wooden paddle. Bare bottom, pants and unpairs taken down and removed.

Junior and senior high school Dean of boys and coach used wooden paddle. All fully clothed

All my adult spankings are bare bottom and or naked, the paddle is my preferred implement, but also like hand, belt, latex paddle, hair brush and cane.

I don't know anyone who was spanked with a spoon. I guess it's because it's a kitchen utensil that has contact with food and ttherefore shouldn't have contact with someone's ass.

It's a shame I didn't think of this hygienic argument thirty years ago, but it probably wouldn't have protected me from my mother's wrath anyway. As a boy, I didn't have much opportunity to talk to my mother about what kind of spanking tool I would be punished with. So I assume she washed the wooden spoon after each use, but I can't say for sure as I was busy crying my eyes out in my room at the time.

When I was spanked in the kitchen (which was only rarely), my mum would take off one of her slippers and use that on my bare butt.

Finland: switch from birch. "koivuniemen herra" meaning Mr. Koivuniemi 😄 Of course belt was used too.

In Texas, it was a leather belt which was frequently applied to my bare bum.

@agracier I believe the whip you refer to in France is called a martinet which is more like a flogger instrument.

@Master_Dorson No, in pre-WWII flagellation literature you actually see bullwhips in addition to martinets.

I know what a martinet is. I know one woman on another site who uses the screen name Martinette, which she derived from "martinet" with a feminine spelling. Her real name is Martina and she has a spanking fetish.

No, in pre-WWII flagellation literature you actually see bullwhips in addition to martinets.

That is correct. There are literally hundreds of illustrations created to accompany erotic novels published during the Interbellum where you can plainly see dominants wielding whips, long and nasty looking bull-whips. I have so many books from that period or else compilations of recently published books containing such illustrations by the usual bevy of erotic illustrators, Carlo, Giffey, Topfer, Jim Black, Lusché and so many others whose names I am not going to look up now.

I interpret the depiction of such whips to be a literary/illustrative device, not an actual portrayal of their use in bsdm situations or roleplay in real life. These things would simply create too much damage on a human body.

But why use them as an artistic device? I've pondered this often enough when I see yet another old book full of such illustrations. I wonder if it isn't a legacy of how slavery was depicted in the 18th/19th century, with Romans from Antiquity, plantation overseers or Arab slaver traders wielding whips and being willing to use them because of them most expressly not being engaged in any fantasy role-play, but in real actual punishing of humans. Whipping also plays an important part in the Christian story of the Crucifixion and therefore whips would also have been an element used to express domination over someone, depictions that people were accustomed to seeing, in churches often enough even.

I would consider the depiction of whips in punishment play in erotic novels to be not much more than an element of fantasy and a symbolic depiction of domination, a way for readers to immediately identify an erotic punishment situation and a crossover with elements taken from more serious (often religious) artistic traditions.

@agracier In one episode of Tintin, an Arabic man is shown about to whip a woman with a bullwhip. Tintin wrestles the whip from him, only to realize this was a fake whipping done while filming a movie. So, yes, it seems like a common theme in pre-WWII fiction.

@agracier In one episode of Tintin, an Arabic man is shown about to whip a woman with a bullwhip. Tintin wrestles the whip from him, only to realize this was a fake whipping done while filming a movie. So, yes, it seems like a common theme in pre-WWII fiction.

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Bare hand or leather belt growing up, but then my dad was 1st generation Irish American so there you go

I grew up in the late 40s early 50s in an Italian neighborhood before moving to the sububs. Most of my Italian friends spoke of their father's razor strop as being the implement of punishment in their homes.

I've never been spanked with a razor strop, my dad didn't have one. Is it more severe than a belt across the bare bottom? I did get that from my dad a few times.

One of the most romanticized implements of corporeal punishment has to be the birch rod, which was incredibly popular in England during the Victorian Era. It was a popular implement from an erotic standpoint because to be effective it was required to be used on the bare buttocks and in many instances it required some level of physical restraint. Check out Edith Cadivec's writings on this subject. Also, many periodicals of the time covered parent's accounts of how they disciplined their children with a birch rod. "Between Women," by Sharon Marcus does a nice job of covering this subject, with particular focus on women and their daughters.

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All of these punishment instruments will not be a pleasure for all the bottom's, there were administered !!!

But it is called " punishment ", and not a birthday present !!

Am i right ???

I think fautless 50's comment on birching in Victorian Britain does not tell the whole story. Birching had been well established as the principle form of corporal punishment for women, children and juveniles before the Victorian era. However, coinciding with the arrival of Queen Victoria was an increasingly prudish attitude and the practice of baring the buttocks was disapproved. But help was on hand, the expansion of the Empire in the Far East revealed an alternative, the rattan cane. An instrument that could deliver very effective punishment to the clothed buttocks and well before the end Victoria's rein, the cane had all but displaced birching especially to the bare buttocks. One notable exception being Eton School where use of it's birching block lasted well into the mid twentieth century.

Meanwhile parents and schools reverted to the more convenient, finally with private schools relinquishing it by 1970's. I myself was caned twice when at school on clothed buttocks in the 50's at a Public School though by then in State Schools caning was more likely to be on the hands, particularly for girls.

@jrw In the movie Lady Jane, the men are asked to leave before Lady Jane is birched on the bare buttocks; though it is said that historically her father birched her by her mother, with other ladies and female servants attending. Indeed, punishment on the bare seems to assume a same sex punishment giver. And even with that, given that the genitals of a bent-over girl are visible from behind, I understand the reluctance.

Lady Jane? Is that the one with Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Jane Grey? I think my mum bought that years ago, although I haven't seen it myself.

@Andrew_Finklehouse Yes indeed. I highly recommend the birching scene, though of course there is no nudity.

There doesn't have to be nudity.

I know some people of the same generation as me (born 1970s or early 1980s) who were spanked using a martinet!

I did not ask if it was on the bare.