Penny got a little cross said “will you be quiet or we’ll be caught and then we’ll see who gets it. I’ve a good mind to wallop you now, am in the mood, Lord knows. If I know Mrs F, tables are about to be turned, which we should watch – so your bottom bare can wait for a spectacle that’s rare – our Vicar is clearly a spanking giver, not receiver and he’s about to get it from Mrs F good and proper, if my name’s not Penny!” I'd somehow got through my first year of senior school without being caned. One morning I awoke to find there had been a heavy snowfall overnight. The deputy head wasted no time in the 2nd Year assembly that morning telling us that any boy caught throwing snowballs would be caned. (The girls never got caned at our school. Sexist bastards).

I don't like being forced to repeat myself Attwood," she warned with an imperious stare. "Do as you are told." At first, Penny thought, it could be Laywoman Lawson, known as Michelle – a very similar size and shape, but no, the voice was not quite right to be her.The next day I was amazed to find that my friends had not prepared for their beating. I'd crammed five hankies down my pants. I probably looked like I'd got the biggest arse in the school, but I wasn't worried about that. United Kingdom: modern lithograph imagines William Shakespeare about to be birched as a schoolboy, c.1580

After graduation, my parents felt that it would be good for me to get out of Iran for a while, so I went to Dubai and stayed with friends. I had always planned to study law after high school, but in Dubai, a different idea began to take shape in my mind. I started thinking about doing something that would somehow celebrate women.Germany: drawing of schoolboys taking revenge with birches on their master on one day a year when tables were turned by tradition, 1867 Mathieu, Tyrann, football star, paddled at St Augustine High School in New Orleans from which he graduated in 2010, pictured in 2011 Salvati, Bobby, 15, shown with his father Joey, who recently paddled him, and holding the paddle, USA, 2002 A horrified lad discovers his first caning will come not from Headmaster, but the Assistant Head mistress. (Approximately 5,207 words. Originally published 1997-12.) Now she had a vehicle for her pride. She had always been proud of her daughter, a bright intelligent daughter. Not many from the village had got into Grammer School in recent years. She knew that a lot of her peers in the W.I. Would be saying that very night…”I hear Karen got into Grammer school, she deserves it, her Mummy will be so proud.”

Penny had a half-hearted attempt at dissuading them both: “Natasha, its wrong to take a peak at a private meeting, bottoms bare or not. If you insist, I’ll spank your bare to kingdom come…”Except in special cases. She’d even tried to have the class of spank re-formed. So girls could learn technique, if called.

Pakistan: woman receives unofficial Taliban flogging on the ground, Swat Valley, 2009 (also video clip) I'm sorry it had to come to this Thomas, but to your credit you took your discipline in good grace, and I suggest you return from the holidays with a much better focus, and a determination to excel yourself in the exams this summer." A poor crying Karen thought it was over, but Mummy was reaching for the slipper. Karen looked to the mirror and saw it, she looked over her shoulder, up to meet her Mummy’s eyes.So Tasha over lap, bare in the air, in turn squeezing Penny’s cheeks. She then announced in a while, as all is fair and all is fine with Penny the same touching and patting the target fair, transfixed and with a far away look. Then came the realisastion and the announcement: “Time to swap places, o chum of mine. In three words, it’s my turn! So over my lap you go.” And so it was, and so she did. Give and receive. When I was looking for my first job I went to one particular school (catholic - the child beaters) and I was shown around by the head. He showed me my classroom and pointed out the cabinet in the corner which contained the cane. He then said to me "There's your cane. I expect it to be used at least five times a week" :eek: I didn't apply for the job needless to say. Murmurs and a few stifled giggles ran around the room. Every girl knew what that meant. So too did the teachers.