Mouth washed out with soap

Yes it was a given for cussing, lying and rudness of any kind. In addition to a spanking which ALWAYS accompanied a mouth soaping!

I would too, no one has died from a belting, I'm living proof of that. Now about soap poisoning not willing to try...

https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/couple-accused-of-killing-granddaughter-for-soiling-herself/amp/

Grandparents from suburban Chicago have been charged with murder in the beating death of their 5-year-old granddaughter, who was whipped a dozen times with a belt for defecating on herself — with the granddad allegedly confessing to being “a little too rough” during the fatal assault.

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Indeed I would never wish to see a practice such as this come back into common usage. It (mouth soaping) belongs to, or should belong to history!

My parents were both translators during WW2. Both worked portions of the Nuremberg Trials. Mom translated many interviews of the survivors of Nazi cruelty and atrocities as well as some of the Germans who had performed the alleged atrocities. She talked until her dying day about the arrogance of the Nazis in the interviews that she translated. My oldest sister was born in Nuremberg.

With the aforementioned background you can imagine what happened to me, the day that I called my oldest sister a Nazi after telling her that she wasn't even an American. First, my Mom spanked me then she washed my mouth out with soap not just any soap but Lava soap. I was spanked again when my Dad got home.

My parents were both translators during WW2. Both worked portions of the Nuremberg Trails.

With the aforementioned background you can imagine what happened to me, the day that I called my oldest sister a Nazi

Wow, did your parents live to see the time when it became fashionable to call people 'Grammar Nazis' or complain to others about 'don't be a Nazi about me smoking'?

If so, that must have emotionally disturbing for them with others taking the past history so lightly and like something of a joke.

Luckily such terminology was never current in Belgium or otherwise my mother would have blown a gasket or broken down from war-time memories.

My parents were both translators during WW2. Both worked portions of the Nuremberg Trails. Mom translated many interviews of the survivors of Nazi cruelty and atrocities as well as some of the Germans who had performed the alleged atrocities. She talked until her dying day about the arrogance of the Nazies in the interviews that she translated. My oldest sister was born in Nuremberg.

With the aforementioned background you can imagine what happened to me, the day that I called my oldest sister a Nazi after telling her that she wasn't even an American. First, my Mom spanked me then she washed my mouth out with soap not just any soap but Lava soap. I was spanked again when my Dad got home.

Hardly surprising that you parents reacted that way, Dee! Having to confront, so soon after they occurred, the atrocities and crimes of 'real Nazis' - or to give them their proper name, National Socialists - and the victims who suffered terribly under them. Incidentally, the Holocaust and Concentration Camps in general is an area I have read and continue to read much about. As well as books on the Holocaust in general - detailing the horrors of places like Auschwitz-Birkenau, Madjenik,Treblinka, Belzic and Sobibor along with the terrible atrocities and crimes perpetrated in the East generally - I have publications and memiors, many written by former prisoners and survivors themselves, detailing their experiences in places like Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Ravensbruck and Mittelbau-Dora. Gerald Reitlinger's, 'The SS, alibi of a Nation', 1956 is also an interesting and enlightening read! The Schutzstaffel (SS) were one of many organizations in National Socialist Germany who committed appalling and unspeakable atrocities and cruelties and profited enormously from them! 'The Buchenwald Report' a callaborative effort and Eugen Kogon's 'The Theory and Practice of Hell: the German Concentration Camps and the System and Practice Behind Them' are also excellent reads. Kogon himself lived through and survived Buchenwald.

It must have been both harrowing and enlightening in equal measure for your parents to have been present at these trials. One can well understand their reaction in this context!

Didn’t growing up but have as an adult. I’m not crazy about it.

Washing your mouth out with soap is tough.. 😱😳🤮

Looking back, I'm glad that mom never came up with such an idea.

I think that if I had been given the choice back then, soap enema or mouthwash, the enema would definitely have been given priority; despite my dislike of these enemas...

I said this before and I'll say it again. I think washing the mouth out with soap is far more abusive than spanking. I'd rather have had the belt on my bare bottom every day than the soap treatment even once.

I had this several times as a teenager, its really disgusting

I had it again quite recently, first time in 20 years and its still as vile as ever!! xxx

Wow something new I got to know. I get to know some few things here 🤠🤠

Yeah I've had it a few times over the years, as others have said, it's truly disgusting. Mum & Dad tend to use it for bad language use 😢 Luckily not happened for a 2 to 3 year now.

Carly 23 UK

Sure did!

I had a foul mouth.

Tossing gin bottles at me and beating the crap out of me with her giant bible was not sufficient to deal with it.

A more traditional source of punishment was needed. Choking me over the edge of the tub and washing my mouth with soap while shouting DEEMON! would put an end to it.

It did not. I was thoroughly pissed off. This punishment was bad. It would have worked on any other kid.

I decided to deprive her of this possible advantage over me.

Being stubborn I decided the best action was to start eating soap. Not just a nibble but a bite.Whole bars.

I even sought out the yellow Sunlight laundry soap bar to eat. It was terrible.

This behavior drove my mother nuts She had no idea what mental aberration she had sparked.

Or how to stop it.

She broke down watching me eating a bar of bathroom soap like a chocolate bar. She cried in frustration. " What am I supposed to do with you?"

I told her to " Suck it" did the trusting thing and kept eating. I had her and was loving it.

I probably cleared off after that. I do remember the look of total frustration on her face. She was leaning on the wall crying.

It went on for months.

The counter was to hide all the soap at home.

The result was my expanding the behavior to school and friends' homes.

Besides, it was hard to explain your kid eating soap at school and friend's places. I knew it would put her on the spot.

We achieved a detente in the soap war.

She bought pretty soap for the bathroom. It was bright red translucent soap.

She took it out of its box to show me. It came with a nice presentation.

I looked at it. Nice soap and red. Red is my top colour to this day.

I did not want to bite a piece out of it so I dragged my teeth over it making a track.

I put it in the soap dish and looked at it sort of not liking that I marked it up.

I just washed with it after that. Other pretty soaps showed up. I marked every one of them once.

I kept swearing at things. Not as much. She never threatened me with soap again.

I would bite pieces off of plain soap and eat it in front of her or where I knew it would reach her ears. Just to weigh on her mind.

The school changed to liquid soap. I like to think I was the impetus.

When I went to my friends the bar soap was hidden.

My Dads Parents were not fooled and knew exactly what I was doing so their soap was safe unless my parents were around.

At some point, they switched to pretty soap. I was happy about that.

Soap tastes BLAAACH! Plain awful stuff.

When I was about five, I was visiting the neighbors across the hall. They were an elderly couple and treated my like a grandson. I loved them dearly, but one day, for some reason, I used the word "shit". She scolded me, brought out a bar of soap, told me to open my mouth, and inserted the soap. I had to stand there with the soap in my mouth for a few minutes.

I remember when I was in Kindergarten getting my mouth washed out with soap after one of the girls told the teacher that I swore at recess. Never will forget that old lady putting soap in my mouth and having to keep it in for a few minutes before going to the washroom to wash it all out.

Soap in the mouth is infinitely more abusive than spanking.

….. A more traditional source of punishment was needed. Choking me over the edge of the tub and washing my mouth with soap while shouting DEEMON! would put an end to it.

It was not. I was thoroughly pissed off. This punishment was bad. I would have worked on any other kid.

I decided to deprive her of this possible advantage over me.

Being stubborn I decided the best action was to start eating soap. Not just a nibble but a bite.Whole bars.

There are defiant kids…..then there’s @Bad_Princess !

I remember when I was in Kindergarten getting my mouth washed out with soap after one of the girls told the teacher that I swore at recess.

Nothing worse at school than tattle-tale sneaky girls. Teachers always believed them, no matter what.

I guess teachers were never much for hearing evidence from all concerned.

I'm certain that in certain cultures, say like in Sparta, informing on a fellow companion was considered worse than the reported misdeed itself.

Many times. It really sucks but it is what it is

I get my mouth washed out every so often. My girlfriend and I are trying to work on my swearing habit so its been occurring more lately. It's just a really hard habit to break despite how awful soap tastes.

At this point we have a specific and regimented punishment outlined for me when I swear because I've had such trouble with it. If we are at home this takes place immediately. If we are out it happens ASAP once we're home.

I have to immediately go to the corner and pull my pants and panties down to my ankles and stand with my hands on my head for 15 minutes. When she pulls me out of the corner she hands me the hairbrush that I will be spanked with later. I'm then brought into the bathroom and stood in front of the sink. At this point my shirt and bra come off but my pants and panties are still around my ankles. Then I get my mouth washed out while holding the hairbrush. After she's satisfied with the mouth soaping, she takes me into the bedroom and gives me an OTK spanking with the hairbrush. I'm completely naked for this. After she's satisfied with my bottom and my conduct in taking the punishment I'm made to kneel in the corner for 10 minutes. Once that's done, she pulls me out and asks me to verbally summarize everything that's happened and why it happened. Then I'm finally allowed to put my clothes back on and go back to normal.

She either does the "get the bar wet and put it in/scrub my mouth" thing, or sometimes she will scrub the bar onto a washcloth and use that on my tongue. I'm not sure which is worse, they both are terrible. Typically if I get the bar though I can bet on holding it in my mouth until she feels like I'm learning something.

@PutMeInTheCorner Your description and timing reminds me of the movie, A Christmas Story, and the narrative of Ralphie.

Ralphie as an Adult: [narrating] Over the years I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap. My personal preference was for Lux, but I found Palmolive had a nice, piquant after-dinner flavor - heady, but with just a touch of mellow smoothness.

I have two bad habits that get my mouth washed out with. I curse and I talk back. It is very unpleasant and embarrassing.

After my mouth is washed out with a soapy wash cloth I have to stand in the corner with a bar of soap in my mouth. On

several occasions while doing this other people have seen me and have been told that I was being punished and why.

I never did like having soap put in my mouth but i had it done a lot because i talked back and also i had foul language and an early age. I try not to think about them days. Besides my red swollen ass usually took away the nasty soap taste in my mouth

Once when I was at my grandparents house for using foul language and my grandmother overheard me. Worst taste ever.

@Master_Dorson You don't know how bad a mouth soaping can be until you're had you mouth washed out with Lava. My mother never made us take Cod Liver Oil and she claimed that he was cruel and inhumane punishment as she washed my mouth out with Lava Soap a couple of time. I can't look a a bar of Lava even today without thinking of how bad it tasted.

@ddell2 I remember Lava soap as it was used to clean your hands when working on cars and stuff as it was good for getting oil, grease, etc. off the hands. I seem to recall it had pumice, nasty smell, gritty, etc. and I can only imagine how nasty to taste it given the smell.

@Master_Dorson You don't know how bad a mouth soaping can be until you're had you mouth washed out with Lava. My mother never made us take Cod Liver Oil and she claimed that he was cruel and inhumane punishment as she washed my mouth out with Lava Soap a couple of time. I can't look a a bar of Lava even today without thinking of how bad it tasted.

@ddell2 I can't imagine your Mom using Lava on you, That's a industrial hand soap for getting grease and hard stuff to get off your hands. She's lucky she didn't get you very sick and you end up in the Hospital. 🙄

@ddell2 I can't imagine your Mom using Lava on you, That's a industrial hand soap for getting grease and hard stuff to get off your hands. She's lucky she didn't get you very sick and you end up in the Hospital. 🙄

According to Lavas safety data sheet, small amounts of Lava ingested should be safe - “not expected to be toxic”, might cause some gastro discomfort. But I wouldn’t want to try it nor would I wash anyone’s mouth out with it.

https://files.wd40.com/pdf/sds/lava/lava-bar-professional-us-ghs-sds.pdf

@mike45 @Rigel It would be disingenuous of me to paint a picture of my mother as a "Mommy Dearest Type" for nothing could be farther from the truth. I only had my mouth washed out with soap, a couple times and she only used Lava Soap one time and then I doubt if I swallowed very much if any. She did make sure that I got a good taste.

Ivory soap was the worst. I had my mouth washed out several times by my aunt.