In a dormitory in Romania, serious bare-bottom pain for a young man being initiated into a sports team.

The journey to the end of the day was like some heroic trek in a fantasy novel. Long and arduous. The lunch time collection of the ‘death sentence’ sent a cold shiver to her tummy. The words left the slip and ran amok in her brain. There before her the words threatened her bottom. A very brief glimpse of a hard paddle swat administered at a private Catholic boys' high school in Louisiana. Protracted flogging by local mullahs of a teenage girl for running away from a forced marriage, 2010. Karen got out and some involuntary action told her to stand to attention. Anything good right now, might stop the severity of what was to come.

Mummy was a perfect product of the 1950’s. A dutiful housewife who had kept an excellent house since the day she married. Sadly her husband was no longer around, but stoically, with a stiff upper lip and a gallon of fortitude, she had carried on running the house, her home, with pride. Thailand: A mass caning at a boys' boarding school, which provoked a media storm locally. With news item (2010). Dec 2012: Two young men are paraded before TV cameras on the courtroom steps after being sentenced to strokes of the rotan for rape and robbery. Seven film clips showing extrajudicial or unofficial punishment in Mexico (3), Iraq (2), and Brazil (2). Some readers may find these scenes distasteful or harrowing. This case is from Tennessee. In addition to the mother, the local Director of Schools is interviewed.

Sudan: Public whipping of a woman for wearing trousers (2010). A very distasteful scene, made worse by the stupid manner in which it is carried out. United States: TV news report from April 2008: a Texas mother is angry about the severity with which, she says, her 17-year-old son (seen in the film playing drums) was paddled at high school. Caught on camera at a public swimming pool in present-day Iran, punishment is administered with a flipper by the swim coach. You've read about Salo's nauseating "shit eating" scene already—now it's time for Pier Paolo Pasolini's main event of unapologetic sadism.

A 22-minute film showing several genuine judicial canings in prison. Very graphic -- not suitable for squeamish viewers. A jocular birthday paddling in a classroom, date and location unknown. The implement used might be the school's real paddle. Woman sentenced to Sharia caning for drinking beer asks for the punishment to be administered in public. (In fact, it was never administered at all.) United States: TV news report (2015) on a Florida father who called on the Sheriff's office to supervise the paddling of his 12-year-old daughter -- a service which, it turned out, they were happy to provide.