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>Hi Rob! I fully realise that you never said naked >corner time was 'a standardised practice', >incidentally. Though I suspect it was a lot more >common than one might believe! > >Your other comments really do chime with me, by the >way! It seems that our experiences, memories and >recollections are really very similar! As you say the >'60s were a time when, for the poor recipient, the >'worst' kinds of spankings - long, bare bottom, over >the knee(s)/lap ones - were truly en vogue!The were >also in the '50s! Old fashioned bare bottom spankings >continued to be the norm in the 1970s as well! I >would say they remained a popular and common practice >during the early to mid '80s too! It was after this >period that, although they still persisted, attitudes, >ideas and opinions began to change! To different >degrees depending on the area and region in which you >lived, obviously. > >Beltings and whuppings too were very common as well! >Like you I often heard the screams, howling and pleas >for mercy as both boys and girls got the butt cheeks >whupped! I remember one time calling on a friend of >mine called Joe only for his sister Lucy to answer the >door! She told me with a massive smirk on her face >that "Joey's in his bedroom nursing his behind! Daddy >whipped him earlier for not mowing the lawn after he >had told him to! Man I really felt for him he got it >good this morning!" She took me to his room and sure >enough he was lying face down on the bed his slim butt >cheeks covered with a face cloth which in turn had >ice cubes on top of it in an obvious attempt to cool >down his scorched buttocks! "Hey Joey! Tell me when >you need some more ice cubes from the refrigerator", >Lucy said as she left the room. Adding, as she turned >to me, "I sure know just how much Daddy's stappings >hurt! I'm much more mindful about doing my own chores >these days!" Joey actually allowed me to examine his >buttocks for myself. His whole behind was beet red >and purpling in places; especially the 'sit spots'! >The welts however were clearly visible and well >pronounced! I touched one of them and it was still >warm and extremely tender! Joe winced and yelped as I >did so. Apparently it had been the second time in two >months that he forgotten to mow the lawn after being >asked and his Father evidently felt he needed >reminding about this!! His Dad however, had taken >pity on him for today and decided he could 'take it >easy' and nurse his 'whupped rear end'! I seem to >remember this whole episode taking place around June >or July 1962! But it typifies the strict discipline >of the times! > >Like you I also remember how in many communities just >about every adult had 'spanking rights'. There did >not appear, as you say, to be any laws against this >and even had there been any no one would have enforced >them , anyway! It was well recognised that old >fashioned spankings and whuppings helped maintain >order in Society and thus, although there may have >been a tiny minority of dissenting voices against >corporal punishment, the overwhelming majority of >people strongly advocated, encouraged, supported and >practiced spanking! For example, in my experience, >bare bottom spanking was not unusual in kindergarten >and elementary school classes! (It did not, as I >recall, occur in the high grades with older students. >There the paddle was either administered on a fully >clothed bottom, or if you were unlucky enough to be >sent to the P.E. Coach you would be required to >undress, put on some skimpy P.E. shorts with the thin >fabric tightly stretched over your butt cheeks and you >had to bend over and take your licks from the paddle! >Those shorts offered minimal protection and your >backside got fried! Girls were often sent to the >female Coach and boys to the male one; though there >wouid, for various reasons, sometimes be a crossover >and it was well known that the female P.E. Coach, in >particular, showed no mercy! She would often make >sure the 'sit spots' were left exposed and focused on >these when applying the paddle! I visited her twice - >the male Coach was unavailabe those times - and she >'roasted my heinie'! Sitting down in class for the >rest of the day was agony! To be fair to her she was >just as hard on the female students!) Three of my own >teaches in kindergarten and elementary classes >administered bare bottom spankings! Two in front of >the whole class and one in an adjacent cloakroom! I >wont go into detail now - that can be the subject of >another post - but even if there were regulations >prohibiting bare bottom spankings in schools (and I >don't whether there were or not) they still happened >and were strongly supported and approved of! This was >the social and moral climate of '50s and '60s and I >know from things I heard that bare bottom school >spankings did continue into the '70s as well! > >From the perspective of today and more recents >decades, the power and authority that parents, aunts, >uncles, teachers, and adults in general had in the >past - the '50s, '60s and '70s especially - is simply >incredible and staggering! Kids really were at their >mercy! Even older kids and teenagers often in the >role of surrogate parents, babysitters, >summer camp counselors, etc... could exert their power >and authority over you completely and enforce it with >old fashioned, bare bottom spankings! I think only >people who were there in those years and experienced >those times can really fully appreciate and understand >just what it was like!

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