The housemasters (supported by the authoritarian headmaster) viewed the cane as the answer to all disciplinary problems as far as junior boys were concerned, and the first or second year pupil who got through a term without suffering several whackings was a rare creature indeed.

The cane applied to the buttocks was seen as the solution. Canes are light, so doing little damage, but sting like mad. The buttocks are resilient and heal quickly. The result was no contest. But the road was not smooth. For instance, the cane started to be used for the punishment of women in Victorian times.

2024年5月2日 · Despite being an experienced and competent caner, Mom would nevertheless sometimes miss our bottoms and hit the top of our thighs by mistake. It was in such circumstances that we found that the cane hurts a lot more on the thighs than the buttocks, even when the latter are bared.

2018年7月22日 · The cane used with force usually leaves tell-tale double lines, often referred to as tramlines. These can turn into painful ridges, with extensive bruising. However, it is possible to give a lighter punishment, by using lighter strokes, but a higher number.

2014年9月3日 · The sting wasn’t confined to the small area under the cane; it was the whole buttock area that really stung. (Maybe there’s something to learn about the buttock representation in the brain in this, and maybe there was an instant central sensitisation?)

2021年12月25日 · The cane is extremely localized as the cane itself is quite thin, compared to the paddle that pretty much covers my entire ass in one smack as it is just bigger. To better describe the feel, the best analogy i can think of is that the paddle is like the stinging you feel when your foot falls asleep and then try to walk on it immediately after.

Schooldays for Sting – then known as Gordon Sumner – were a sometimes painful experience, beginning at a Catholic primary, where the seeds of his lifelong problem with religion were sown. In the second extract from his memoirs, he recalls how, after winning a place at a Newcastle grammar school, his appearance, family background and musical ...

2009年5月28日 · Corporal punishment finally ended in Britain in the late 1980s and one wonders if the loutish behaviour of some teenagers today would not have been tamed by application of some old-fashioned punishment. When I was a boy, rules were black and white, and you knew how far you could go.

2019年5月28日 · Flexibility and material go a long way in determining whether a cane will have sting or thud. Our impact play survey explores what caning feel likes in the context of kink and BDSM.

2011年2月17日 · We were told he was to receive 12 strokes of the cane, and that if anyone was caught playing truant they would get double the punishment.