The Woodshed..

I’ve heard the term before but I think it may have been a thing a long time ago and probably mostly in the south or on farms. I’ve only been spanked in the house (kitchen, family room, bedroom and garage) or outside in the backyard when at home.

Most of the houses in my neighbourhood had pokey little sheds in the garden with hardly any room to carry out a spanking. My dad never spanked me in the shed even when he caught me misbehaving near it, he still sent me to my bedroom for a spanking.

The phrase I'm familiar with isn't to be taken "to the woodshed" but "out *behind* the woodshed." Presumably a functioning woodshed wouldn't have a lot of open space, but the area behind it would, while the shed would block the view from the house.

Behind my dad's shed was a small lawn. If he'd spanked me there the neighbours would have seen my red ass before I pulled my trousers back up.

My cousins live on a farm and they have a large barn to store their tractor and farming equipment. A section of the barn is my uncle’s workshop with a large table and huge amount of mechanics tools. Hanging on the wall with several of the tools is a thick leather strap about two and a half feet long and three inches wide. My 3 cousins, twin boys and one girl have assured me that that strap applied to their bare bottom while bent over the work bench is pure hell.

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A section of the barn is my uncle’s workshop, with a large table and huge amount of mechanics tools. Hanging on the wall, with several of the tools, is a thick leather strap, about two and a half feet long and three inches wide. My 3 cousins, twin boys and one girl, have assured me that the strap, applied to their bare bottoms while bent over the work bench, is pure hell.

@Gary1951

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I can also testify, on behalf of my sisters (one older, one younger) and myself (and, even my mother), that a diciplinary appointment with Dad's leather strap (and/or his thick/wide 2-foot-long carpenter's ruler), in his workshop (inside an all-purpose ranching structure that was a combination stable/barn/garage/workshop/warehouse/woodshed) was VERY effective at correcting disobedience, disrespect, and dishonesty!

I didn't grow up on a farm so I would not know.

My dad didn't have a strap like that one you describe but he did spank my bare bottom with a belt a few times.

My father had a shed in the woods which he used for his own peace and quiet time. It had a wood burning fire, a coffee table and a very comfortable reading chair. This shed became the focal point of my punishments as a child and even today, it is occasionally used.

I, nor were any of my cousins, friends and acquaintances, were ever taken to 'the wood shed'! I always lived in fairly urban areas where woodsheds did not exactly abound! I knew kids who would be taken to the garage for a whupping!

Never experienced this growing up but have as an adult used the shed a few times. Sometimes the only private place to do it.

I grew up in suburbia and I don't believe any of my friends had wood sheds so taken to the woodshed was just an expression. We all had rec rooms so more than a few of us made some unpleasant trips there.

I grew up in suburbia and I don't believe any of my friends had wood sheds so taken to the woodshed was just an expression.

There used to be a semi-amateur spanking/punishment magazine called 'the Woodshed'. It was indeed a term used as a metaphor.

There used to be a semi-amateur spanking/punishment magazine called 'the Woodshed'. It was indeed a term used as a metaphor.

When American was an agrarian society. The woodshed was probably used for chastisement. The fireplaces in the house that I grew up in were gas operated and the house I live in now, the fireplaces are electric.

While there was no woodshed around, this reminds me of my stern aunt who believed in whipping, as she referred to them as, and the were done in the cellar of her estate house. Her beautiful, mature daughter once wanted me to follow her (the daughter) to the cellar in order to punish me when I was a teen, but I would have no part of it.... something I now regret in my old age...

Bethany's Woodshed spanking stories are available on many sites - spankings but not necessarily at the Woodshed. There was a magazine named "The Woodshed" that featured male-male spanking stories, personal ads and illustrations. It was published from (approx) 1983-1995 pre-internet.

https://jock-spank.com/category/the-woodshed-magazine/

https://jock-spank.com/category/woodshed-magazine/

I can't find any covers from the Woodshed, but it was amateur published and had similar covers like these here:

https://biblio.co.nz/book/spanking-digest-desiree-lemoynes-spanking-digest/d/505667219

My aunt's way of announcing you were going to get a spanking was to say something like "that just earned you a trip to the woodshed, young man."

Her woodshed, however, was actually her bedroom.

I grew up in a small town in Canada in the spanking era. Spankings were given in our bedroom over the parental knee bare bum with hand or hairbrush. Among threats that you would hear from parents teachers etc was "do you want a trip to the woodshed". Although we did not have a woodshed you knew that a spanking was imminent! Was anyone actually taken to a woodshed to be spanked?

Yep I was. My father had a huge shed for wood and carpentry and he made a wooden horse for me to go over for a beating. Could tell you more but let's see how the topic goes.

@Borehamwoodman Was it like a spanking horse?

@William5 yes it was a spanking horse that my father had made. I would have to stand in front of it until he was ready and then I would have to drop my shorts and yfronts, step out them and then bend over. Alway 25 strokes of the paddle later, I could get dressed

We have a bar called "The Woodshed" here in Florida.

I love the woodshed many great memories and lots of cut and split wood i built many racing chain saws all run on 100ll and klotz caster oil a few here may remember that exotic two stroke racing smell i also built a huge 80 ton splitter with 4 foot of stroke i built it in the 80s and am still using it, fresh cut and split wood has a very wonderful smell to it that us folks in the country love