Some years ago I was at a gathering where I happened to overhear some ladies talking about something that occurred between a friend of theirs and her teenage daughter.
Seems like this girl who was maybe 15 or 16 at the time had shoplifted a bikini. When her mother found out she came up with a form of punishment that she hoped would really teach her daughter a lesson.
She was made to put the bikini on and then Mom gave her a hard thrashing with a paddle while she was wearing it. One that left her with pain and difficulty in sitting for several days.
Would have to agree that Mom hit upon a punishment that would have been memorable! Even though this appeared to be back before the thong bikini came along, any bikini would offer but scant protection from a paddle. But it was more than just the pain. She could have accomplished that had the paddling been over the girl's underpants or indeed her completely bare bottom.
But here she was getting paddled in the bikini she had stolen and doubtless one, being a typical teenage girl, thought she looked hot and sophisticated and sexy strutting around at the beach or pool wearing it. But now she was lying on her front in bed, her bottom blazing hot and sore, and feeling totally humiliated!
I wonder if she ever wore that suit again. Indeed, she may have remembered that paddling in the future every time she put on a bathing suit!
It is known that teenage girls sometimes engage in shoplifting not because they don't have the money to buy something, but do it for kicks or thrills, to see if they can get away with it. Or as membership initiation into some sort of sorority or group. Likely that was what this girl was doing. But from what I gathered, she never tried it again! Well may have spared herself a criminal record for larceny had she continued it into adulthood.