Visibility of spanking marks

How common was it to see spanking/whupping marks on kids bottoms and legs when growing up! Back in the '60s and '70s, when I was growing up, it was very much the norm! The boys showers and changing rooms were, obviously, a rich source for spotting the tell-tale signs of a recent spanking! As were swimming pools, both private and public ones, and in the spring summer, during warm and hot weather, you would often catch sight of 'war wounds' on a playmates bottom and legs testifying to a recent punishment! Unlike today, when such a discovery would very likely result in the authorities being notified - and I am not going to get into a debate about the rights and wrongs of this; I am merely recounting HOW THINGS USE TO BE; in, depending on your opinion, the THE GOOD OR BAD OLD DAYS; LOL - adults in those days were incredibly relaxed and laid back about such things; whether they be other parents, teachers, baby sitters, or other members of the public in general! In fact the vast majority of them would have been strongly supportive of such discipline; as spanking was widely approved of back then! The usual reaction was laughter, teasing and conversation designed to embarrass the kid concerned! It would, in fact, often spark a conversation about the 'virtues of spanking' with the adults frequently describing spankings that they has recently administered to their own kids! Thus, if other children were present, they also were not spared the embarrassment either! The descriptions given were sometimes quite detailed! My sisters, female cousins and female friends in general assured me that it was common to see spanking marks on the bottoms of other girls in the school showers and dressing room! Hardly surprising since I often saw, heard and witnessed my own sisters and cousins get spanked! How frequently did other members spot spanking/whupping marks on the bottoms of other kids?

Very common in the 50s & 60s. No way to hide. one room locker rooms and showers. gym wasn't coed and we swam nude. Coach might even ask what you did to earn those.

Yes, indeed, chamed! Chances were that if a coach or adult of any kind spotted marks on your bottom or legs you would be quizzed about it! It was most likely, in school, that it would be the coach who noticed these, of course! You might well be the subject of witty and sarcastic remarks, also! Such as; "looks like your behind had an argument with the strap! It ended up being a sore loser! Ha, ha!" Or; "Your backside have a painful encounter with something, kid?" Of course you always replied, "yes Sir!!!" And then there was the questions and teasing from the other kids to endure! The only consolation was that it would not be long before it was their butts that were displaying 'war wounds'! It was very similar in the girls dressing room and showers! My sisters and female cousins as well as sporting blistered butts themselves; often saw evidence of spankings and whuppings on the bottoms of other girls, also! The female coach would also sometimes question the recipients of recent spankings! My cousin Susan told me that, on one occasion, she was quizzed about the state of her bottom after a hairbrush spanking from her Mom; my Aunt Rose! The coach, a young woman in her mid twenties, even guessed that the damage on my cousins bottom had resulted from a session with the hairbrush! She was to be fair a good sport about the whole thing; remarking; "that she had been on the receiving end of the hairbrush, herself; right up until she finished college!" She concluded by saying; "we have all been there and lived to tell the tale!" Giving her the thumbs up and chuckling! How different things were back then!

I used to look at my freshly spanked bottom in the mirror after my dad (or mum) went out of my bedroom telling me to stay in there for a while.

When I'd had a good spanking at the weekend, my bottom would still be red and sore on Monday morning, so if we had PE on Monday mornng the other lads would see my reddened bottom. It was known around the school that I used to get bare-bottom slipperings at home, so they guessed that was what I'd had.

Did any of the other boys have marks on their bottoms, Andrew?

I didn't look, and they didn't show me. When several of us were spanked in school it was never on the bare bottom so we didn't get to see.

Cane marks seem to last longest last sll week before finaly fading away school teachers prided them selves for leving six tram lines across boy or girls bum equaly spaced

Cane marks seem to last longest last sll week before finaly fading away school teachers prided them selves for leving six tram lines across boy or girls bum equaly spaced

The traditional SIX OF THE BEST!!!!!! I've heard that sometimes they would lay the last one diagonally across the previous five; making it an excruciatingly painful final stroke! I believe this form of caining was known as a 'farmgate'; since the configuration of the marks resembled the shape and structure of a farmgate!

I attended school in the mid 50’s and 60’s. Spanking was probably the most accepted form of discipline at that time. My parents didn’t believe in spanking, so I was never spanked at home, but I did get paddled in high school. Most of my friends did get spanked and they would brag about how bad it hurt and oftentimes show off thier marked butts. In my freshman and sophomore year’s PE was required, it was fairly common to see marked bottoms in the showers, especially on the day after report cards were issued.

I don't recall seeing anyone with marks, nor did we talk about spankings other than teasing each other yuor someone was going to get a spankin - miostly in grades K-6.

I posted about this in another thread: when I went to high school (late 1970s) it wasn't all that rare to see someone with the marks of a recent spanking. I saw my share of still pink bottoms, and some bruised ones. One boy was obviously whipped or switched on his lower back, I remember another boy teasing him, "your momma whipped you!" I felt sorry for him because somehow being "spanked" on the back seemed harsher than the usual place.

If I'd been spanked (or more likely belted) the night before, I'd try and find a place in the open shower (six communal poles with 4 spigots each) that was oriented so that my butt could face the corner.

No one ever said anything to me (and to this day I recover really quickly), but like I said I saw the evidence of recent spankings a number of times. Sometimes there was teasing involved, which I never took part in, because I didn't want anyone to do it to me when the tables were turned.

I also remember seeing red bottoms in the changing room at the summer day camp I went to in the late 1960s.

In the early 1960’s, I got paddled in Junior High School by the Vice Principal along with three other guys for “misbehaving” on a school bus. Right before PE class we were called in for our punishment. Three whacks each as we bent over a chair as the paddle was firmly applied. We had fun in the PE shower explaining why our butts were a bright cherry red color! Hurt like hell!

I remember showing the welts on my arse on the school bus after getting six with the cane on the bare from the headmaster. Wasn't the last time either. 😃

I went to the gym with a pretty well marked bottom. I did everything I could to minimize the chances of it being seen in the locker room. I have no idea if I succeeded. Most of the members kept to themselves, but someone could easily have seen and not said anything. It was very embarrassing.

I remember when I was in Junior High School seeing a few boys in the change room with red welts on their bottoms as they were changing or showering.

Very common in the locker room after gym. We had to shower, do anyone who was recently spanked had the tell tale signs. We would tease him, but also realized that we could be that person the next day.

I didn't have many opportunities seeing others naked growing up. No school showers or anything like that. Any nudity I did see, I didn't notice any red butts.

But I did have a friend that we would discuss and share about spankings we got and show each other our bottoms if we had been spanked recently.

So I saw his red butt a few times and he saw mine.

Yes most kids, both male and female, knew, when seeing marks on another youngsters bottom, that it would soon be them displaying 'war wounds' in the very near future! A spanking/whupping was never far away! LOL

My school was a traditional private British boys' school. Corporal punishment was used but not excessively. At the time I considered it part of the school experience though, looking back now, I think the idea of adults hitting children with implements designed to cause real pain is quite horrifying. But, back to the subject...

The showers were very traditional too - row of six showers fully exposed to the changing room. The convention was that you faced the wall to avoid exposing the front as much as possible so if a boy had been caned or slippered, then the marks were very obvious and impossible to hide. And from memory, those resulting from a caning from the headmaster were especially vivid lasting at least a fortnight.

Hello Charles,

Did you ever had some spanking or punishment on your penis ?

Yes in 70s it was something that you can see. I wouldn’t say it was very common but throughout my school years in 70s I saw marks on the bottoms of my schoolmates several times and on one occasion i myself was in such situation.

Fairly common when in junior and senior high school. Boys all changed and showered together as part of the P.E. period and in my area of the country, spanking and paddling was pretty common during the time I was growing up. You could also get paddled in school. So it would not be unusual to see a reddened bottom in the locker room period 5, if a lad had been paddled by the assistant principal period 3 or 4.

I used to hate it in the summer months when growing up because my dad didn't hesitate to spank me if he thought I'd acted up and it was often given in public. If wearing shorts it would be evident to everyone that my naughty boy's bottom and the backs of my legs had been spanked hard because of the clear red hand prints! Having to walk along holding his hand with my backside and legs stinging and seeing everyone laughing at the hand marks made my face flame the same colour!

During my era (60's & 70's) it was not unusual to see some red butt cheeks in the P.E. locker room, often with clear outlines that revealed the implement used. Jock-straps were required in Jr. High which seem to frame and accentuate the color changes. Some boys got teased about it, some took it lightly, others were embarrassed and tried to hide it. I do remember feeling sorry for one pimpled-faced boy who seemed to always have marks showing especially early in the week. The other boys saw the pattern too and stopped teasing him about it.

I do remember feeling sorry for one pimpled-faced boy who seemed to always have marks showing especially early in the week. The other boys saw the pattern too and stopped teasing him about it.

I also had a classmate who was spanked much more often than the other boys.

Without spanking marks, it wasn't a real spanking, in my opinion !!

In my group age at the swimming club, wasn't at all unusual to sow spanking marks in showersroom/lockers during The '80s and Early '90s from the initiations U8 groups to performance U15 groups.

In my group (around 15 boys) there where two boys than was often seen with recent spankings marks, there where around 5 boys than was never seen, and around 7 boys - including myself - who was just ocasional seen like once on every one or two months...

Usually no one teased or said something about that two boys who was often spanked, but the rest of us where often teased or mocked or at least received some smirks/smiles from the others clubmates, especially from that boys who was never put in such embarrassing situation...

In my case , If my mom spanked me with a belt with a day before my swimming practice, usually my butt reddnes faded away, but If my mom used a rod or a switch on my bare bottom, some welts was still visible for more than three days, so, at least for one swimming practice I had to deal with a pretty well welted bottom...

...and there was that fashion still present in the summers of The '80s, when many children wore very short pants or skirts, which barely exceeded the limit of panties on the thighs down...

At playgrounds, in parks or even on the street, you could often see children with two or three red stripes that "escaped" from beneath their pants/skirts down to their thighs...