Paddles on sale in shops

Agracier: You remind me of when we were looking for a wooden wide flat-backed hairbrush in stores — why weren't we happy with just plastic?

Agracier: You remind me of when we were looking for a wooden wide flat-backed hairbrush in stores — why weren't we happy with just plastic?

I don't know. But I was thinking of la France with the remarks about anti-clerical politicians and policies. Especially the late 19th and early 20th century political battle to end the monopoly of lower education by religious orders.

I use my mother's old HEAT FOR THE SEAT souvenir paddle when I spank. However, my husband still gets the strap. The same one that was used on my bare bottom growing up!

I went to a Catholic school until my freshman year in high school. Our principle was a very stern nun who did most of the paddling in that school. She had two paddles. One was the novelty type that said The Board of Education and had pictures on it. It hung on the wall over her desk. The other one was a real deal paddle that we believe was made by the maintenance guy at our school. It also had said The board of education on it but was plain wood. No holes and was all business. I somehow avoided the sting of that paddle all my years there.

Although CP was used at our school it was not that often. In a school with grades 1 through 8 and a few hundred students it maybe happend 6 to 12 times a year. That's an estimate but probably pretty close to reality. The paddlings that I personally new of were done in the principles office although teachers had authority to paddle students I don't remember it happening (even though I personally was threatened to be spanked by a teacher once it didn't happen). However when I was in 7th grade, 2 friends of mine and myself I did witness three 8th grade Girls get marched in to the principles office and get paddled for leaving the campus. That is the only paddle incident I ever witnessed in all those years. We couldn't actually see them getting it but we could hear it loud and clear.

Paddles were sold in stores, but most were home made. I recall my elementary school principal had several paddles that were made for her by parents. She used them with good effect on me.

Apparently NOT if you kept doing things in school they paddled you for.

You're operating on an incorrect premise.

By now it should be obvious that many spankings and paddlings and corporal punishments were not handed out because anyone particularly deserved to be punished that way. Students and kids were paddled because the people doing the paddling must clearly have enjoyed doing it for some reason or another.

And then found excuses to punish or punish in excess.

Students and kids were paddled because the people doing the paddling must clearly have enjoyed doing it for some reason or another.

agracier, that is the most profound bit of wisdom that I have read on Zity in a long time. How true.

To Switchablesusie, you are correct the paddling's while dreadful to get, had no effect on my behavior. I was/am ADD meaning I could not sit still, spoke out, was generally disruptive in the classroom etc. The paddling's were abuse, since I was not able to control myself. If there was a diagnosis for ADD at the time, I was not aware of it. PS My daughter and one grandson are also ADD. I see myself in my grandson. Sweet child, but can not control himself. His parents will not medicate him. At some point the other students are going to reject him.

I should have said something like the paddle produced a hot stinging sensation in my backside.

We, boys only, got paddled bare thru high school In high school yrs it was less frequent but it happened---It was just a skinny stick that was always in the kitchen drawer--It still is in the kitchen drawer! --It sure made a guy;s butt hurt---no need to ever buy a paddle I bet it was just something my dad first picked up in the shed---once upon a time--My brothers and I can testify it hurt on a guy's bare butt

I remember it wasn't long ago that both Michaels and AC Moore craft stores sold spanking paddles. I bought one on impulse one day at Michaels (still have it too, and yes it hurts when it spanks my bottom!) and I remember being nervous that the cashier would make a smart remark about it but they didn't. I don't think they picked up on the fact that it was gonna be used on my bottom when needed.

I remember being nervous that the cashier would make a smart remark about it but they didn't. I don't think they picked up on the fact that it was gonna be used on my bottom when needed.

A good cashier knows not to make much of any kind of remarks, except stating the price, saying thank you, come back again and smiling politely. Heaven knows, the store might have a policy of spanking smart alec cashiers ... ha ha

Agracier: I got a remark when buying a martinet in France in the 1990s, like "somebody's gonna hurt". The cashier kind-a apologized for it.

(In the US, though, never got any remark when buying e.g. enema equipment.)

NeedsSpankings: Not long ago as in the 2010s? 2000s? 1990s?

NeedsSpankings: Not long ago as in the 2010s? 2000s? 1990s?

I bought my paddle in 2010. Got my bottom scorched with it the next day also, and I do mean SCORCHED! Got 6 really hard swats over jeans, probably the hardest spanking I have ever gotten in my life. Definitely harder than any spanking my mom ever gave me. Its warmed my bottom a few more times since then but never a spanking like that since.

I remember novelty beach shops having the "heat for the seat" paddle as well as the "for the bear behind" for naughty wives, kids, etc...

Picked them up whenever I saw them hoping someone would comment!!Lol

One of my favorite novelty paddles reads, “Frontier Tail Blazer: Used by old trail drivers to break wild horses & stubborn women."

Roadside souvenir shop paddles. My parents bought one in about 1970 when we were on a road trip down the Oregon coast. It was there “go to” implement for a while, and then my dad started using his belt again. You used to be able to find souvenir shop paddles almost everywhere, now they are super rare to see in a shop, but I did see a stack of them at souvenir shop in Continental Divide, New Mexico (along 1-40/rte 66), this was in the summer of 2021! They were the “attitude adjuster” style.

I remember over a decade or so ago that some of the arts and craft stores sold fraternity paddles but I haven't seen them in a long time. Maybe get them mail order.

Most college bookstores will have fraternity and sorority paddles, which are really more symbolic than intended for use. My mother always said that although they had paddles in her sorority they weren't paddled. Dad on the other hand had a lot of stories regarding paddling in his fraternity.

In my grade school and junior high paddling was very commonplace. Most of my teachers used the paddle. In junior high, the paddles were made by the shop teacher, who took a lot of pride in his work. He was always designing new paddles. Fortunately for me, girls didn't take shop and he also had a window washing company on the side. My dad was a good customer so he watched out for me in school. Many times if it were raining, he would give me a ride to my dad's office. While riding to Dad's office, he would point us to some boy and say things like he will be sitting gingerly at dinner tonight as I really busted his butt. I didn't like the shop teacher very much. I thought he was a bully but dad loved him as he was so industrious. He actually made more money with his window washing company than he did teaching shop.

There was at least one lumber company in the area that sold paddles. I believe most of my grade school teachers and I assume other teachers in the area bought their paddles there. My junior high wasn't one of them as the school had its own paddle maker.

I've always thought that if there really is a hell, Mr. Hall is down there designing and making paddles for the Devil.

Back in the early 1950's, paddles with small rubber ball attached by elastic sting were a favorite toy. I see a perfect example sold on Amazon https://www.unitednow.com/Paddle-Ball-Game-by-Schylling?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI08eA7YS2_AIVcsmUCR1S4wnREAQYAyABEgJVi_D_BwE wow, that brings back memories. In any event, the elastic would never last long, and we as kids learned to get rid of that paddle, least out parents would save it for use of it on our backsides….

Back in the early 1950's, paddles with small rubber ball attached by elastic sting were a favorite toy. I see on Amazon https://www.unitednow.com/Paddle-Ball-Game-by-Schylling?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI08eA7YS2_AIVcsmUCR1S4wnREAQYAyABEgJVi_D_BwE that brings back memories. In any event, the elastic wouldn't last long, and we as kids learned to get rid of that paddle, least out parents would save it for use of it on our backsides….

I recall some other posts about getting spanked with those things as kids.

These “paddle ball” toys were shown in a few movies. Marilyn Monroe is depicted provocatively whacking a paddle ball in The Misfits while wearing a polka-dot dress in a saloon. In Blazing Saddles, Mel Brooks (in his cameo as the cross-eyed governor) and Harvey Korman use a paddle ball to great comedic effect. Korman's character performs tricks with relative ease and hands the paddle to Brooks, who can barely manage one hit.

My sister and I had those paddles with small rubber balls attached when we were kids, but neither of us was ever spanked with one.

It's been at least 40 years ago, as best as I can remember, Cracker Barrell Country Store sold paddles out in the open. Several years later they had them behind the counter and you had to ask for one. Now, Nothing. The closest thing would be a cheese cutting board.

We had a ping pong table in the basement and the paddles were well made & heavy with a layer of hard rubber glued to surface the rubber had a real course texture like sandpaper,and spankings from them really hurt,i would get hardons from hand spankings but the pain from those paddles only brought tears!

We didn't have a ping pong table at all. My sister and I had those paddles with rubber balls attached by long elastic, and we used to play with them outside against the wall of dad's shed.

Back in the early 1950's, paddles with small rubber ball attached by elastic sting were a favorite toy. I see a perfect example sold on Amazon https://www.unitednow.com/Paddle-Ball-Game-by-Schylling?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI08eA7YS2_AIVcsmUCR1S4wnREAQYAyABEgJVi_D_BwE wow, that brings back memories. In any event, the elastic would never last long, and we as kids learned to get rid of that paddle, least out parents would save it for use of it on our backsides….

That was an implement used in my family when growing up. Because of that I hated everytime we got one of those as a present.

You have to ask, MissStress, who your parents were really buying these presents for! You, your siblings, or themselves? LOL

We had a ping pong table in the basement and the paddles were well made & heavy with a layer of hard rubber glued to surface the rubber had a real course texture like sandpaper,and spankings from them really hurt,i would get hardons from hand spankings but the pain from those paddles only brought tears!

I would imagine, codjer, the rubber really generated a foroceous burn on your bottom; that must have developed into an incredible heat! It is amazing how many ordinary household items can make devilishly formidable spanking implements!

It's been at least 40 years ago, as best as I can remember, Cracker Barrell Country Store sold paddles out in the open. Several years later they had them behind the counter and you had to ask for one. Now, Nothing. The closest thing would be a cheese cutting board.

Yes, DST, attitudes have changed so much over the last forty or fifty years! Although I got off very lightly (as you will see from my blog entries and profile introduction) I, nevertheless, belong I think to the last generation where spankings - or as they were commonly called in the UK, hidings - were commonplace and widely accepted! Times have certainly changed; both in the US and even more so, I think, in the UK!

There was a store in New York City, on the Lower East Side, run by some Eastern European people, that sold a wide variety of odds and ends from both Eastern Europe and the Middle East and it had spanking implements that were specifically for use on kids. The items had labels/containers that were in various languages and then in very roughly translated English they would say things like “for correction of boys and girls” and I recall one of them saying “do not use on child under 8”. They had these until the early/mid 90s and then they were gone.