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Date Posted: 10:58:30 07/23/16 Sat
I did not have the kind of childhood described in my post titled "I Was Kidnapped & Tortured By a Sadistic Motorcycle Gang", nor the kind described in my post titled "The Boys' Reformatory". And yet, even at this early age, I felt an intense compulsion to experience THE LASH. Until I "came out" in the BDSM community many years later, what little exposure I had to whippings was what I viewed on TV or in the movie theater. Those whipping scenes left indelible memories on my tender psyche.
More recently, I've attempted to revisit those celluloid whipping scenes from my childhood. Where I have been successful in locating them, I've generally found that my memories of them were surprisingly accurate.
If the scene was from a Western TV series, I was usually able to locate that scene, but if it was from a theater movie, I was not always successful in finding it because, when I was a kid, I was only focused on the action, not on movie titles or actors' names. There are 2 whipping scenes I recall very vividly from my childhood that I haven't yet been able to locate or identify. I'll now present what information I seem to recall about those scenes in the hope that some viewer may be able to identify them for me.
(1) I saw the first scene on TV in the 1950s or 1960s. However, my educated guess is that it was a movie released first in theaters and later re-shown on TV, rather than an episode from a TV series. The movie was a Western, and it was in black-and-white.
I believe the plot involved a conflict between 2 brothers, one good and one evil. The good brother was captured by the evil brother's gang and taken inside a barn where his hands were tied to an overhead beam with his arms stretched vertically over his head. And he was shirtless. He was first punched in the stomach repeatedly. So I suspect they were trying to elicit some information from him. I seem to recall that the ranch foreman was a "heavy", reminding me somewhat of Raymond Burr or Edmond O'Brien but may have been some other actor.
Since punching him had not proven effective, the foreman then ordered one of the ranch hands to bring him "THE BELT", which was a wide garrison belt hanging from a nail on the barn wall. The foreman was about to whip the good brother with that belt when someone entered the barn requiring his attention. As a result of that interruption, the foreman had to leave immediately. Then, one of the ranch hands took charge of THE BELT. Grabbing it by the buckle, he slowly began to wrap part of the belt around his hand,. Menacingly, he told the good brother that he was now going to resume where the foreman had left off! He then proceeded to administer a belt whipping on his bare back. I don't recall how much they actually showed of the belt whipping, but, knowing Hollywood, it was probably not nearly as much as I would have liked.
I believe this scene stuck in my mind all these years because I had fantasies of getting whipped with a garrison belt.
(2) The other still-unidentified whipping scene I recall from my childhood was probably originally made for TV and was most likely a TV miniseries, rather than an episode of a regular weekly series. The plot took place during the Civil War. So it may have been produced for the Civil War Centennial in the early 1960s. The scene took place either at an Army post or an encampment. I suspect the latter because I seem to recall seeing tents in this program, although I'm not absolutely certain about that.
Anyway, a relatively young Union soldier committed some offense that warranted a whipping. He was tied to a whipping post, hands over his head, and I believe he was shirtless. He was then given 10 lashes with what I seem to recall was a bullwhip. The following scene showed the victim inside a tent (I believe) moaning from the pain of the lashes he had received. I'm pretty sure of the number of lashes. We were watching this program at the dinner table, and my mother's boyfriend, who was eating dinner with us, commented that the soldier was making too much of a fuss after getting ONLY 10 lashes!
It's possible that this whipping scene was in a program sponsored by Walt Disney. In case you think that is unlikely, Walt Disney produced another TV miniseries, "The Swamp Fox", in which a young Colonial boy, played by Tim Considine, is given a whipping by a British Army officer. This was another whipping scene I recalled from my childhood that I had been unable to identify. I am thankful to Alvin Easter, author of the book "Lash", for identifying that scene for me.
I guess that, if Walt Disney thought it was okay to show a young boy receiving a whipping during prime time, then, surely, a whipping must be a healthy and wholesome experience that all young men should be exposed to in order to build their character.
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