Mouth washed out with soap

I was threatened with it but it never happened.

As a kid, I was at a family friends house. The mom was punishing her son. She was sitting on him, having his body lining up (kinda cowgirl but not sexual in anyway what's so ever) and she was pining his arms down next to his body. I don't know how much he got in his mouth, b/c I left. I couldn't watch, I felt guilty.

My sister would have the kids put out a finger. They had to put a drop of dish soap on top and put on their tongue. I'm not sure if they had to hold it there for any length of time.

Never had it done to me. But in high school I came home drunk one night and chewed on a soap bar thinking my folks wouldn’t smell my breath. Stupid, but they didn’t notice. Or did they and just not say anything?

Yup. My uncle, aunt, ma and I were sitting around the kitchen table one evening, I was very, very young. I'm not sure how it started, but I guess that one of them told me to never say "fuck". I probably would not have heard that word until I was seven, but somehow, someone there said it, and told me that it was a bad word, and to never say it. Now, that was a total set-up. You cannot teach a kid a word, and then tell him not to say it.

Here is a perfect example of what Gordon Livingston wrote in one of his books when he wrote: "Parents have a limited ability to shape children's behavior, except for the worst." So, I said it, and they all giggled and laughed. Personally, it meant nothing to me, I could have been saying "dog', or "raining", or anything, but it was the reaction that taught me that this was some kind of powerful word. My uncle warned me a couple of times that he would wash my mouth out with soap if I didn't stop. I didn't even know what wash your mouth out with soap meant. I didn't stop, they kept laughing and it was encouraging.

So, after a couple more warnings, my uncle followed up on it. It was more symbolic than thorough. I don't think he really put soap inside my mouth. But I learned two important lessons that evening. One, setting one up to fail seemed to be the M.O. of one of these people at the table, and, Two, it is a decent and noble thing to give plenty of warnings before following through with a threat, rather than to just choose the nuclear option without any warnings or chances to change course and avoid it.

I remember my older brother getting this from my mum once, for frequent swearing after many warnings.

He had to sit down while dad gently he'd his hands. Mum produced a bowl of warm water, a small piece of soap and a flannel.

She thoroughly cleaned his mouth with the soap and water. Teeth, tongue, lips and mouth.

When she had finished he had to wait a full 5 minutes before he could rinse out his mouth with water.

This was quite a traditional punishment for persistent bad language and it certainly seemed as effective as a spanking.

A cousin of mine and I were both simultaneously spanked across our mothers laps facing each other and then had a bar of lathered soap placed in our mouths as punishment for wrongdoing and cursing. Lucky there were two toilets in home when we both began having stomach cramps from the ingested soap. Remember both mom's laughing in amusement as we ran into the house for bathroom. Fretter

@ fretter

we each had a warm water soaked soap bar placed in our mouths for additional discipline which shortly promoted bowel movements to the two of us after the soapy liquid was swallowed.

The quick response of the soap was induced by having to also drink the warm soapy solution from the glass that had held the bars.

Somehow I don't think that drinking soap/soap water is in any way safe. Soap is after all a corrosive base. In concentrated form, the active ingredient (sodium hydroxide) is used to strip paint. I've used the stuff often enough when stripping old furniture.

I would think the the inside of a stomach is far more sensitive a type of tissue than that of the large intestine/rectum when inserting a soap suppository.

My mom did this to me when I was young. She would take a small bar of soap and take a bite out of it and make me chew on it for sometimes 5 minutes!! It was horrible as a young kid. It took forever to get that Ivory soap taste out of my mouth!!

I hope it wasn't Lifebuoy

Never ever had it done. But I sure was threatened to have it done… that scared me to death. Thought I was gonna die from soap poisoning.

Mouth washed out with soap & water :

Did anybody else have their mouths washed out with soap and water?

If we cussed, were rude or told lies we would often have this done to us in addition to the spanking. Again this was a not an uncommon punishment in general when I was growing up.

Thankfully not. That is far more abusive than the hardest spanking.

Yes, I got to suck on a bar of ivory soap while mom spanked my backside.

The problem is when Lifebuoy is used, as it can cause blindness

Yes, you need a real soap, like Ivory. most are detergents. we kept a bar of Ivory just for dirty mouths

Yes, you need a real soap, like Ivory. most are detergents. we kept a bar of Ivory just for dirty mouths

My parents, as well as my Auntie Rose, kept a special bar of Procter & Gamble Ivory Soap specifically for the purpose of washing out our mouths, charmed!

Yes, I got to suck on a bar of ivory soap while mom spanked my backside.

We never had to do this, bob1952! We had to suck on a bar of ivory soap standing in front of the basin with our bottoms still sizzling from their ‘conversation’ with Mom's Hairbrush!

Yes, me and my cousin for talking dirty.

spanking and punishing enemas.

My aunt was very strict.

we cried but the punishment continued😢

Never had, as a kid. Nor knew that method of punishment existed. My mom's method to keep me from swearing or talking back was a 👋🏽 straight to the mouth as hard as she could, sometimes drawing blood.

From my experience(s!!), the question is, "Did anyone under the present age of about 70 NOT get their mouth washed out with soap (yes, Ivory was the weapon of choice)? For a wide variety of infractions…usually cussin'.

From my experience(s!!), the question is, "Did anyone under the present age of about 70 NOT get their mouth washed out with soap (yes, Ivory was the weapon of choice)? For a wide variety of infractions…usually cussin'.

Yes it often felt that way, duhwizzard! Whether it was ‘cleansing your mouth’ or getting spanked or whupped; it was easier and quicker to ask who WAS NOT subjected to these punishments! There were some kids who had ‘progressive’ parents but, in my experience, they were very few and far between! It is my reccolection that it was during the mid to late ‘70s that attitudes started to change, though slowly at first! In the ’80s that change in ideas, beliefs and practices became even more pronounced and from the '90s onwards even more so.

Growing up, we were told, either go get a branch outside off the tree for a spanking, or the bar of Ivory soap as a punishment.

I always choose the bar of soap.

I now look back and am extremely happy that I did. As spanking in the context that I happily receive as punishment now, has a sexual pleasure that cannot be denied or mistaken.

Shy🫧🤭😘

A few times as a kid my Mom made me hold a wet bar of Lifebuoy soap in my mouth after she caught me swearing. I had to hold it in for about 15 minutes if it was a really bad swear word, less time if it wasn't as bad. It made my mouth burn until it was over and I was allowed to rinse my mouth out with water. I soon learned not to get caught swearing. Others mention Ivory Soap but in our house Ivory was reserved for making soapsuds enemas.

Growing up, we were told, either go get a branch outside off the tree for a spanking, or the bar of Ivory soap as a punishment.

I always choose the bar of soap.

I now look back and am extremely happy that I did. As spanking in the context that I happily receive as punishment now, has a sexual pleasure that cannot be denied or mistaken.

Shy🫧🤭😘

Nice to have had the choice ShyELover! The good thing, as you say, being that your associations with spankings are all positive ones! I was never switched when growing up but i knew kids who were.

One, a girl named Rebecca or Becky for short had parents who gave her whuppings with a hickory switch! I was once out playing with some of the other neighborhood kids when we all of a sudden saw a car pulled up outside a block of apartments. Becky, her Mom and her Dad immediately got out of the car, both parents with very stern looking faces! Becky, meanwhile, had a look of absolute fear and dread on hers! As they were going into the apartment block communal entrance her father announced, “You have earned yourself a whipping with the Hickory Switch young lady! Your Mother will take you upstairs to get you ready”!

Becky, reacted by pleading; “Please Daddy, no, not the switch! I beg you, not the switch"!! Then her Mother turned to us - there were half a dozen of us congregating outside the apartment block and told us in no uncertain terms, “If you kids know what's good for you you will disappear from hear ! Do you understand”! We all, in unison, responded; “Yes, Ma'am”!!!! In those days, this particular event occurred in July 1966, you would NOT DARE answer an adult back or question their authority!

We quickly dispersed but a minute or so later when we judged the coast to be clear we quietly returned, keeping our voices down as we did so. None of us wanted to miss out on hearing one of our contemporaries get a whupping! Every kid in that little gang got spankings and/or whuppings and we had all at some time or other provided ‘entertainment’ for our comrades when we got our own butts spanked or whupped. So it was always satisfying when it was someone elses behind getting blistered! The Hendersons lived on the second floor of the apartment block and fortunately for us the windows of the rooms looking out onto the street were already open! It was the height of summer and in our community air conditioning was a luxury most people could still not afford.

Before long voices could be heard from their apartment with Mrs Henderson saying; “You were told not to hang around with those kids and NOT to go to that part of the neighborhood, Becky Sue”! She then added; “Now lie over the bed and get ready for the switch! Now, REBECCA SUSAN HENDERSON”!!!! There was more tearful pleading from Becky and more stern admonishments from her Mom. Then Mr Henderson arrived on the scene and told his daughter in no uncertain terms that; “you (she) will learn to obey your mother and father and do as you are told, YOUNG LADY”! There was then briefly some silence apart from Becky's continual sobbing and pleading. There was then a faint swishing sound, obviously the switch moving through the air followed by an extremely loud, high-pitched and plaintive wail! “Please Daddy, no …. !” Her futile plea for mercy was cut short as the switch delivered another agonizing stroke producing another ear splitting wail from Becky!

She must have had around about a dozen more licks with that switch, howling, sobbing and begging throughout the whole ordeal! At the end of it her Mom told her “to remain in her bedroom” till dinner and “when you come to dinner bring your pillow with you as your going to need it”!!!! We listened to Becky's sobbing a little longer then decided to quickly leave, realizing that should we be discovered our own bottoms would very likely be in the firing line!!! LOL lnterestingly, we all had initially smirks on our faces when listening to Becky's whupping; but after about 3 or 4 licks we started to feel sorry for her and the expressions on our faces became far more sympathetic ones! We all knew JUST HOW MUCH SPANKING AND WHUPPINGS HURT!! The whupping Becky got was one of the severest I ever heard and her reaction to it bore testament to its severity!

I later from my own Mom, via a conversation she had had with Mrs Henderson, that Becky “had trouble sitting comfortably for a few days”! And “the marks took the best part of 3 weeks to fully disappear”! She (Becky's Mom) also added that; “Rebecca's behavior and attitude had improved ‘remarkably’ in the weeks afterwards”! So I can well understand your preference for the bar of soap rather than the switch ShyELover! LOL

Surprised I never got a mouth soaping, as I did curse and use bad language when young back in the early 1950's. I did hear of it happening to friends, so I was aware of it.

Surprised I never got a mouth soaping, as I did curse and use bad language when young back in the early 1950's. I did hear of it happening to friends, so I was aware of it.

You seemed to have lived a ‘charmed life’, reddevil, avoiding mouth soapings and escaping spankings by hiding!! LOL

@duhwizzard

From my experience(s!!), the question is, "Did anyone under the present age of about 70 NOT get their mouth washed out with soap (yes, Ivory was the weapon of choice)?

Of course I never got that treatment. For all the threats and warnings that parents or others give about this punishment, I doubt it was something that happened to many kids.

And perhaps you ought to have asked about members older than 70.

@agracier - I know my right from my left…I just get the names mixed up!! Of course you're right ….did anyone OVER the age of 70!!!! Thanks for the smack on the back of the head!! (lol)

Question for those who got their mouth washed out with soap…what does ivory taste like???

@creator58 You seemed to have lived a ‘charmed life’, reddevil, avoiding mouth soapings and escaping spankings by hiding!! LOL

Yes, except for the super strong Ivory soap enemas given whenever I spent too much time in the bathroom.

I did once by my Mom. I was arguing with her and I think I said shit. She grabbed a bar and ground it all around my mouth and teeth, it was terrible. Can't remember how I got it out of my mouth and teeth but remember that terrible taste for several hours. Only happened that one time thank God!