Whilst reading through many of the old postings on here before deciding if I should myself contribute or not, I came across several references to adults who, although they had never been subjected to corporal punishment themselves at school had non the less subsequently (in adult status) tried slipper or cane out of curiosity.
I had intended adding to these comments but can't for the life of me find them again!

So, if anybody voluntarily experienced corporal punishment as an adult just to see what it was like - I'd love to hear from you.
How was it?
Was it much as you expected?

Also if anyone could point me to any of those old postings it would be most appreciated.

I seem to remember most replies expressed amazement that anybody could derive pleasure from that form of pain.

kind regards
schoolboy_rog

Perfectly normal people are curious about what it feels like to indulge in 'taboo' activities - murder, rape, armed robbery, group sex, bondage, CP, streaking, etc, etc, etc.

Such curiosity is perfectly normal but nobody EVER indulges in any of those activities just to find out what it feels like.

If the inclination isn't there in the first place, the curious are content to remain curious.

Thank you for an interesting reply Lotta.

There is, IMHO, a world of difference between the taboos of murder, armed robbery, rape and to a lesser extent streaking than to the other subjects you mention, not least of which is that there are laws against them and incarceration could well follow.
Turning curiosity into actively trying out any of the other examples is, I submit, something which a "normal" person might be tempted to do without necessarily having any great inclination in that direction.
My problem is that I experienced extremely strong inclination towards most aspects of corporal punishment, especially in a scholastic context, from a very early age - certainly well before I stopped wearing short trousers at the age of 12. Much of this facination may well have been fuelled by my exposure to others who suffered slipper and cane at the hands of teachers but I am also fairly certain that I was inherently "that way inclined". This makes it impossible for me to understand why some people would wish to "try it out" - hence this thread. I am also fairly sure that the postings on this forum that I spoke of were from people who described themselves as being merely curious.
So, as they say, curiouser and curiouser!

kind regards
schoolboy_rog

Previous contributors have described themselves as headmasters, schoolteachers, schoolgirls and many other things that they were not.

Why should describing one's self as 'merely curious' about CP mean that one is or was, in fact, 'merely curious'?

The Internet is a world jam-packed with liars, frauds and fantasists and nowhere in that world are the fakes piled higher than in the realm of CP.

Believe nothing.

Question everything.

Trust nobody.

Except me, of course.

I suggest schoolboy rog takes a look at the "Caning Experience" thread which includes Peter C 's experience and my own.
My school exposure to CP (or perhaps, more accurately my lack of exposure!) seems similar to schoolboy rog. I also recall a fascination with CP that goes back well into short trouser days. KK's reference to a schoolboy "rite of passage" struck a chord with me and I needed to experience the cane properly applied schoolboy fashion to complete, rather belatedly, that rite of passage. I had long wanted to know what it was like and how I would take it. There was only one way to find out.

Thank you undeterred,

I thought I had scanned every page of the old threads and your thread was on the the current page!!

This is certainly one of the threads I was referring to. One other thread had a number of posts, if I remember well, from people who couldn't understand how anybody could possibly want the pain of corporal punishment out of choice - but I can't find that one.

Quite obviously there ARE people who try out caning as an adult and there ARE others (we!) who enjoy reenacting school canings and derive great satisfaction from so-doing.

Thanks again.

kind regards
schoolboy_rog

My interest in corporal punishment can also be traced back to grammar school days when I had both a fascination with and a fear of the cane.I was never personally caned and would at that time been quite terrified at the prospect. Since then there has been an incresing urge to know what a caning felt like which eventually led me to recently visit a "Headmaster" from whom I received three strokes of the cane. They were excruciatingly painful but I am glad now that I had the courage to satisfy a curiosity which had been with me for some twenty years.

A few months ago I experienced my first caning as an adult. As I was one of those boys who got caned a few times at school, it wasn't so much out of curiosity that I took cp as an adult, but more a desire to re-enact a schoolboy caning.

The caning itself, (four strokes across school shorts), was authentic enough. It wasn't totally agonizing, but neither were the canings I received at school, although, when it was over, I didn't want more. The last stroke, which was higher than the first three, hurt the most. The cane marks took just over a week to fade properly, which was also much the same as at school.

Other aspects were not so realistic. I suppose it's difficult, if not impossible, to totally recreate the ritual of a traditional school caning, but I missed certain things such as being lectured and having to wait while all the details were entered into the punishment book.

I would also agree that it is difficult to understand why someone would want to re-enact a school caning as opposed to someone seeking it out because they felt that they missed out on such a "rite of passage" at school, but the fact remains that many do.

Thank you for your reply Peter C. I found it very interesting.
I was also terrified of the prospect of being caned at both primary and secondary school.
I never was caned although I often wondered what it would be like to receive a real punishment six stroke caning.
I have been caned subsequently as an adult on countless occasions, sometimes more severely than others but always with plenty of warm-up spanking first.
To take a really hard caning cold, even of just a few strokes, can be excruciatingly painful as you discovered!
You say:
"I am glad now that I had the courage to satisfy a curiosity which had been with me for some twenty years".
I guess you're saying that you won't be repeating the experience? How about plucking up the courage to return to your Headmaster for a real, full six of the best? Now that you know what to expect you would be experiencing a simiilar level of real fear that you would have as a schoolboy about to be caned all those years ago. Just a thought!

kind regards
schoolboy_rog

An interesting response James, thank you for sharing your experience.
You say it was "a desire to re-enact a schoolboy caning". What do you think sparked that desire? Does that mean that you will be repeating the experience or was it perhaps a one-off thing?
Trying to re-enact school canings calls for much attention to detail if it is to satisfy the curiosity or desires of those people who do indulge. Being adults and not schoolboys means that authenticity can only be taken so far but I would think you should be able to find a "Headmaster" who understands the aspects you missed from this first adult caning you describe and could provide you with a more realistic punishment session.
Strokes which land high or low always seem to hurt more than those applied to the centre of the buttocks - the low ones I can savour, the high ones I can't - don't know why! Perhaps because low strokes "sting" like blazes whilst strokes which land high just "hurt". Not explaining this very well, am I?!!

Many of "us" who indulge in re-enacting school canings and cp in general do so because there is a such a buzz of feelings and emotions tied to the whole thing. There is submission - submitting to authority and accepting punishments prescribed by those "in authority", there is fear of the punishment - the prospect of real punishment always gets my knees knocking at the very least, there is the pain itself, the embarrassment of bending over or going across a knee and probably also taking down pants or having them taken down, sometimes the telling off can feel humiliating..... A whole cocktail of potent elements - for "us"!!!! It is SO electric - I LOVE it!!!

If you do decide on being caned again, I would love to hear about it.

kind regards
schoolboy_rog

I did receive cp at home and school and have continued the interest as an adult. The motivation for me, therefore, is not so much curiosity as some desire to reconstruct as closely as possibe those earlier feelings and experiences.Most encounters have been interesting and "enjoyable" but have not created the discomfort or apprehension of those earlier days. I did ,however, receive a slippering last week with a plimsoll which was the closest I have come to recreating the school experience. It was a genuine old (1950s) white plimsoll with a hard thin rubber sole which was quite flexible. It had the most amazing sting and the guy applying it was very skilled and "serious". I really did yell after each stroke(no play acting) and was genuinely hoping at the end that there were not many more whacks to go! I suppose what I am saying in a rambling way is that adult experience is not just about curiosity but also about re-lived experience.

Dave,
Nice to hear about your cp experiences.
The slipper (the RIGHT slipper!) can be an extremely effective instrument for punishing the buttocks with. The effect of the cane is quite different, at least that's how I feel. It sounds like you got a fairly authentic slippering last week and it is amazing how something as innocuous looking can be so devestating isn't it?! How many strokes did you get, can you remember? Have you ever been caned by this person? It sounds as though they would be quite skilled at it which would help you experience more of the pre-punishment fear and that unbelieveable bite that is caused by a skillfully wielded senior school cane. I know from experience that cane strokes laid on hard on a cold bottom by a serious and skilled practitioner can certainkly make me yell.
kind regards
schoolboy_rog

Roger's comments are quite timely.It is now around six months since Iwas first caned and in the period immediately afterwards I felt that I had fully satisfied my curiosity.Recently and somewhat surprisingly however I have had an increasing urge to experience a genuine school type caning again.It has reached the point where I shall almost certainly make an appointment if possible in the next few days, courage permitting, to be given the traditional six of the best. I am not sure how I will react to getting six and I note Roger's comments regarding a warm-up spanking reducing the pain. For me however I believe it would detract from the authenticity compared with being simply bent over the vaulting horse and caned accross the P.E. shorts. Regards, Peter C.

Well done Peter,
plucked up the courage to go for a full 6 - I raise my hat (school cap) to you.
I completely understand you not wanting to take a warm up spanking first and you already know all too well from your first caning just how painful the cane can be when taken "cold".
Your Headmaster is also clearly an expert and I am quite sure he will not spare you. I think you need to prepare yourself for some serious discomfort - you lucky boy!
This second caning will probably feel even more authentic than the first because you know how hard it was taking just three strokes so if you agree to a full, authentic 6 of the best there will almost certainly be an element of very real real fear just as there would have been at school. Fear, excitement and anticipation all combine to give that jittery, knee-knocking feeling - least that's what I experience!
I too have been caned and strapped whilst bent over a vaulting horse and the leather smelt like - well - school really! Similarly whilst bent over the sloping, lift-up lid of a recently restored old school desk my nostrils could smell the bees wax but somehow that too smelt of "school"! Personally I LOVE that desk and to bend over it to be caned is the ultimate for me. All adds to the authenticity, all external stimuli that help make the occasion even more memorable.
Just a couple of question though.
What do you think made you want to repeat what is basically a very painful experience? Do you think perhaps that you are now hooked??!!
Where is your Headmaster located (roughly) because I might try and make an appointment with him one time when I am over in the UK.
I wish you good luck and DO tell us about it and try to get a photo of the "damage"!

kind regards
schoolboy_rog

Difficult to know what has motivated me other than an urge to re-enact school scenarios. The "Headmaster" I visited is located in Sidcup and I will be trying for an appointment this weekend. He uses what he describes as a senior rattan but does have a collection of canes.Regards, Peter.

Am still looking forward to a "blow by blow" account of your very first 6 of the best Peter, I'm sure it was/will be an extremely memorable experience.
If you are interested I can send you a video of an adult boy receiving a 12 stroke caning over PE shorts. The strokes are administered relatively quickly and the cane is wielded quite vigorously. It is not the hardest caning I have witnessed but interesting none the less and the boy seems to be struggling a little to stay bent over the bench with some strokes, particularly the last and hardest stroke.
The file is quite big, around 2.3MB so your email account will need to be able to accept files of that size. If you're interested, let me know.

kind regards
schoolboy_rog

I agree that it is essential to recreate as far as possible an authentic school scene. All the ritual that can be mustered, full school uniform (ideally with shorts), lecture (whilst cane is flexed menacingly), being ordered to bend over school desk etc all add to the experience. In my view, "trousers down" caning would not be authentic (although it may help make the pain experienced more authentic - how much difference does it make?). Shorts are necessary to emphasise "schoolboyness" but the cane used has to hurt otherwise there is no point. Presumably an adult caning hurts less than it would for a schoolboy. What type of cane provides an adult schoolboy with the most authentic experience?
My "six" were properly applied with a thin swishy and "stingy" cane which, being denser than some, was really quite a "senior" implement (or so I understand). It was sharp, but not "excrutiating" as many school canings are described. Would six from a thicker, more "thwacky" cane, properly applied over shorts, be noticably harder to take? I'm tempted to try but would need to be careful about marks. What would be the difference and would they last longer?

undeterred,

I agree with most of what you say. I personally enjoy the role play as much as the cp itself and so full school uniform is almost essential. Short trousers can emphasise the juvenile status but are lined and offer a little bit more in the way of protection. Unlined longs, or unlined shorts if you can find authentic ones, will allow most of the effects of a caning to be felt - especially if you don't wear underpants! Generally I like to be caned over normal lined school shorts (with underpants beneath) followed by caning on my pants and then bare. I know this is perhaps not as authentic as just caning across shorts but having my shorts and then my pants lowered during a caning really adds to the anticipation, excitement and fear for me.

Role play including telling off, corner time, having to bend over an authentic school desk to be caned (absolutely mind boggling!!) getting the backs of your legs slapped etc. can all combine to ensure the mindset is right for the experience.

Canes differ of course. The usual standard rattan is very flexible and at around 8mm diameter stings and burns like blazes when applied hard on a bottom that hasn't been warmed up with a good sound spanking first. Canes of around 10mm diameter seem to penetrate deeper and the "thud" is accompanied by a more diffuse but fuller kind of pain.

The dragon cane is of a much denser type of rattan and as such is heavier and less flexible. It does, however, pack much more real "punch" than the more common kooboo rattan and is generally the most feared of canes for those who have experienced the effects of both types. The dragon cane really bites into the flesh of the bottom and it's effect is much more like a "beating" than a "whacking". Because the the dragon is not as "swishy" as a normal rattan, it is easier to cane accurately which means that canings with a dragon cane can be extremely severe indeed, if considered appropriate, without too much fear of "stray" strokes" perhaps landing places not intended! Also normal rattan can wrap around the flank and deeply mark the hip if the caner is not experienced and the inherent stiffness of a dragon cane can help avoid this unwanted wrapping when accuracy is lacking. The dragon can really drive the air from the lungs when applied hard - especially with that all important first stroke - ouch! Anybody who has experienced a hard stroke from a dragon cane applied to the crease where thigh joins bottom will testify that the expression "felt like I was being cut in half" really is appropriate - and we all hold the dragon cane in high esteem!! RESPECT!
I personally prefer a normal supple rattan between 8mm and 10mm laid on hard by an experienced caner - that is what I always imagined school canings to be like.

I do hope Peter C has finally taken the plunge and experienced his much awaited and much feared 6 of the very best - can't wait for the report!

kind regards
schoolboy_rog

I took the full six tonight! I have to say it took some real effort and if I had not been strapped over the horse I do not believe I would have managed to stay put. The "Headmaster' used exactly the same cane yet even from the first one, each stroke seemed even more excruciating than the first time. My gym shorts offered no protection at all. As you would expect my buttocks display six quite clearly distinct raised weals.I am confident I have now experienced a genuine six of the best school type caning. Whether I will ever feel I need to repeat the experience only time will tell.

Well done Peter and what an ordeal.

If you or undeterred would care to contact me via email I would appreciate it.

rog

The general view seems to be that the typical school cane was about 8mm thick. Is this what would have been described as a "senior cane"? If so, what about the so-called "junior cane" - how thick was that usually, and what age groups would it have been typically used for?

Just curious, as I'm not old enough to have memories of actual canings at school.

I think school canes varied quite a lot from school to school and over time. However, 8 mm diameter sounds a little thin to me although boyhood memories are likely to be quite unreliable. I remember our woodwork teacher improvising with a 3 foot length of 3/8 inch dowel (10 mm approx). It was about the right diameter but much to fragile to do the job.

The size (width) and amount of flesh on the buttocks is quite important in determining the effect of the cane. A thin, young teen boy of yesteryear had very little flesh covering his bones when in the classic touch-the-toes position.

I don't remember ever being spanked as a girl either at school or at home, but I developed an almost obsessive interest in such punishment during my early teens and eagerly questioned my friends on whether they had ever been smacked. As far as I know, corporal punishment had not been used in my Girls' High School for many years, but a few girls were spanked by their mothers - usually with a hair brush or a leather strap on the bare bottom. My interest grew with the years until, in my early thirties, I met a woman who was just as keen as I was! We eagerly shared our thoughts and desires and it was not long before we were experimenting and smacking each other's bottoms. I shall never forget the excitement of actually having my knickers taken down and having my bare bottom hand-spanked for the first time. But things soon progressed and it was not long before we were using hair-brush and strap with some vigour. One day my friend went to London and came back with a real punishment cane. I was so excited as I eagerly held it in my hands. It seemed so light and harmless, yet it made a lovely swishing noise as we whipped it through the air. We both wanted to feel what it felt like to be properly thrashed so we agreed to give each other four hard strokes on our bare bottoms, and not to ease up until the punishment was completed. I elected to go first and excitedly bent over the arm of the settee. I felt my skirt being raised and my knickers lowered. But what a shock I had when the first stroke landed. I had never felt such pain and I howled! But I'm glad to say it hasn't dampened my ardour!

I agree with you the pain from a stroke of the rattan cane across the bottom is not comparable to anything else. How long ago was it that you experienced this first caning? I would also be interested to learn whether your friend went through with her caning having seen your reactions to the strokes.Regards, Peter.

It seems to be part of the human condition that, if we survived an ordeal through courage, grit and resolve, we are often better for it.

Many boys (and a few girls it seems) got pleasure and satisfaction from a visit to the headmasters office - in retrospect at least. I can recall some very arduous cross country races that were entirely unpleasant, even painful, from start to end but yet were great fun. A young man of my acquaintance lost a leg to cancer at age 20. He now says it was the best thing that ever happened to him.

The danger with challenges of the above type is that, if we fail, we can be totally destroyed by the failure. Beware of confidence courses and rattan canes!

I believe it varies considerably according to the individual.I have seen recipients of the cane leaving the study in considerable distress after being caned and certainly unwilling to discuss the experience with anyone. Others, whist obviously displaying acute discomfort immediately after the caning, have been only too willing to display the marks and discuss the experience within only a couple of hours of the ordeal.

It does vary greatly from individual to individual.

Firstly, it depends on whether one accepts one's fate or not. It is easiest if there is acceptance. It rains. Canings happen. Things break. It is no use worrying about these things as nothing can be done about them.

Secondly, it depends on whether one shares one's experience with others. Talking helps.

Dealing with minor dramas and traumas is good training for major. If a caning is ones first real trauma it is more difficult to take.

A school friend benefitted very greatly from his first caning - two hard strokes for breaking bounds in his second year at high school along with a dozen other boys. Up until this time he had been exceedingly fearful of the cane and a bit on the outer as one of the few uncaned. He showed a decided lack of confidence.

Being part of the queue outside the headmaster's study helped him greatly. He was just carried along. All the boys exiting the office did so as nonchalently as possible suggesting things were, perhaps, not too bad. The second stroke landed on his backside before the first had registered properly. It was a bit of a shock when both took effect. But he survived without undue expression of distress and became one of the gang. I found him remarkably excited and pleased even before the pain had passed off.

I was interested in the account of the boy who benefitted from a caning, not I suspect, in the way the headmaster intended. The experience I had at boarding school, which made me realise for the first time that I had an "unusual" interest in CP, was similar in some ways.

It was the early morning on last day of my first year at the school (I was just 12 at the time) and all the boys in the dormitory were excited by the prospect of 8 weeks' holiday. There was alot of horse-play and someone balanced a waste bin containing water above the dormitory door. A prefect came in to see what the noise was and copped the lot. I happened to be out of bed at the time and was assumed to be the culprit. He grabbed me by the neck and marched me back to his study. Normally I would have got the slipper but I can only assume that the prefect had already packed his gym shoes so he picked up the nearest substitute, his leather trouser belt, and gave me a swift dozen on the seat of my thin pyjamas. It didn't actually hurt that much but the sound was deafening, echoing down the corridor back to the dorm to my startled friends. When I returned to the dorm grinning, I was treated as a hero (especially as I hadn't even been guilty of the offence). As a timid boy who was no good at games, I had not previously experienced much admiration from my peers but that all chnaged from this point on. The following year I didn't shirk from exploits which might end up with punishment and, although I genuinely dreaded the cane as much as most boys, I came to relish the glory of showing off the marks afterwards.

Tim

Hello Peter.
It is almost ten years since the memorable occasion of my first proper caning. As you say, there is nothing quite like the agony of the burning pain produced by a rattan cane when applied with force to the sensitive flesh of a very bare bottom! After my four strokes I wept for about fifteen minutes, so we decided to have a cup of tea while I recovered. The waiting could not have been easy for my friend, but she was very brave and insisted that a bargain was a bargain! So her bottom became just as sore as mine. In fact both were quite badly inflamed over the whole area, but what excited us most were the "tram lines" - purple, swollen ridges extending right across both cheeks. We examined each other for several days and were proud to still bear the feint evidence of our ordeal more than two weeks later. We still use cane and strap on each other, but we normally take the precaution of having a safety word in reserve. It still puzzles me how, without experiencing it originally, I became so fascinated, to the point of obsession, in corporal punishment. Incidentally, my male partner refuses to gratify these particular whims of mine. Although he thinks I am a bit odd, he accepts my spanking relationship with my friend and knows what we are up to .... the evidence is plain to see!

"I don't remember ever being spanked as a girl" says the contributor known as 'Mary'.

I'm not surprised.

He's never been a girl.

Hi Rog, I was really pleased to see that you are not averse to a bare bottom caning. I philosophy being " If it's going to be caned, cane it bare".
I don't think you can appreciate a caning unless your buttocks a bare.

Hi

I was caned and slippered at school. Although I hated it at the time it left me with a curiosity about cp as an adult. I suspect that stems from a relationship after my university days when an ex g/f took an unusual interest in the fact I had been caned at school, and seemed to get off on descriptions of school punishments ! (A story which I will enlarge upon another day !).

In particular, having grown up subject to some fairly strict discipline it seems to have left a void in my life which needs to be filled. After all, why should discipline/punishment stop at a certain age ? I am as capable of misbehaviour as I was at school so there is no reason why the occasional taste of corporal punishment now should not be appropriate.

It was with this in mind that I visited a willing master last year. After being made to change into my PE shorts I was subjected to a severe session of corporal punishment to teach me a lesson. Firstly, over his knee for a prolonged hand spanking. Secondly, to bend over and grasp my ankles while he whacked me hard 6 times with a rubber soled plimsoll. This I found extremely difficult to take and it was only the sight of a selection of canes in the corner which encouraged me to remain still and quiet during the punishment. Finally, I was sent to his "punishment room" to bend over a desk and to await the final part of my punishment. After an uncomfortable wait I heard his footsteps along the corridor and saw him enter the room carrying a thin, crook handled swishy school cane. I was already sore from the spanking and plimsoll whacking - I dreaded what was about to happen but was determined to accept my punishment stoically.

After a few practice taps, the cane swished down hard across my gym shorts. Eight agonising strokes which brought tears to my eyes. After a short pause, the master took down my shorts before swishing me another 4 times - hard - across bare bum cheeks.

This whole experience may seem bizarre to many. The idea of dressing as a naughty schoolboy to voluntarily accept severe corporal punishment will not appeal to everybody ! I hated the experience at the time as I felt exactly as I had felt at school when being caned (although this adult punishment was probably more severe than any I took at school).

Furthermore, it may seem strange that the punishment was given by a master. I am straight and thoroughly enjoy sex with women. However, the idea of being punished by a woman would have been unrealistic since I always associate the cane with a master. I also feel that unless you have experienced corporal punishment yourself it is difficult to administer and authentic, ritualistic, painful, humiliating lesson. Whatever some of the postings on this site say, corporal punishment is generally something endured by males of a certain generation.

The session still has a vivid significance for me almost a year later ! It is without doubt a turn on for me now - although I know that to repeat the session would leave me feeling just as scared, tearful and striped as I felt that day.

J

Welcome to our Happy Circle, Jeff!

We look forward to reading your story referred to in the first paragraph of the message above.

Keep posting!

Jeff,

You said:

"The session still has a vivid significance for me almost a year later ! It is without doubt a turn on for me now - although I know that to repeat the session would leave me feeling just as scared, tearful and striped as I felt that day."

I wondered if you'd been tempted to repeat the experience? Some people find they enjot the experience of adult discipline even more after they have overcome the nervousness associated with the first time.

Tim

To be honest, I suspect I would dread a further session more than the first.

Before the last visit I only had vague recollections of school punishments as an indicator of what was to come. Although I knew the cane would hurt I didn't anticipate quite how painful 12 strokes with a senior cane would be.

Unfortunately, having discussed the matter with the master he clearly takes the view that our encounter was merely a reintroduction to corporal punishment, and that any future session would be intended to teach me a lesson I will not forget.

I was shown his impressive but scary collection of canes. Particular attention was paid to a crook handled dragon cane which had a rubber coated tip. I winced at the sight of him flexing the cane and the horrible sound it made when he swished it through the air a few times. It was made quite clear to me that this cane would be used the next time we meet.

So, am I looking forward to my next visit ? Dreading it more like - but strangely I know it is something that has to be done.......just as school punishments could not be avoided !

J

I can honestly state that my experience I would not seek to repeat although I still retain a fascination and interest in corporal punishment. I was never caned at school but curiosity increased when I left for university. I therefore followed up an ad in magazine the wording I still remember to today "Ex-schoolmaster will introduce new pupils to the cane" I would stress that I make no criticism of the very amiable man probably in his fifties whom I met. He provided exactly what I had requested, namely the experience of receiving six of the best as would be given at school.He even let me select which cane I wanted him to use from a number which he showed me.
He had me bend over an old padded bench loosely securing my wrists and ankles. He did not take any run up and there was just a short swish and a crack as the cane hit my bare bottom but followed by the most unbelievable pain. I was in a state of shock after just one stroke. Five more were duly administered despite my cries, pleas and protestations.This was twenty years ago and my curiosity was more than satisfied to the extent that I have never sought to be caned like that again.

"He provided exactly what I had requested, namely the experience of receiving six of the best as would be given at school".

As far as I'm aware, no school in the world secured its pupils by their wrists and ankles during punishment.

You've been conned!

Jonathon; Did the mans name happen to be George?
Sorry, I had to ask.

As an American who has never been slippered or caned, I have recently become fascinated by Brit style schoolboy discipline as practiced at various independent/"public" schools. I find the ritual and civility of it all rather fascinating as well as the apparent contract between Master and pupil that created both expectation of CP as well as acceptance of it by the boys.

If I could find a local person with actual experience or knowledge of true Brit style school discipline who knew what he was doing and who could accurately provide a recreation of such a diciplinary event for me, this adult would be quite willing to bend over and take six of the best just for the experience.

I do hope you find someone to act out the experience. Do not however underestimate the pain generated by a stroke of the cane accross the bottom. I certainly did as I am sure have others! You would do very well indeed if you were able to voluntarily remain in position to take six strokes if they were properly administered with a traditional rattan school cane. Regards, Jonathon

Jonathan G: "Do not however underestimate the pain generated by a stroke of the cane accross the bottom. I certainly did as I am sure have others! You would do very well indeed if you were able to voluntarily remain in position to take six strokes if they were properly administered with a traditional rattan school cane."


I have a healthy respect for the cane certainly but a confused one also. I have heard some recipients refer to its bite as the "worst pain ever felt" at on end of the spectrum while hearing other say "thousands of school boys have managed its sting quite stoically and while it hurts it is certainly tolerable." at the other end of the spectrum. I have seen images that suggest that six of the school cane does a good deal of damage that lasts for up to several weeks and images that suggest that it produces no more than red stripes that disappear within an hour or so. There seemns to be no consistent desription or response to what is described as essentially the same experience.

I recognize that individual differences relative to pain tolerance and skin response is a factor or that even state of mind would create a variable response but still I would think that there wouldn't be such a disparity in description.

I actually took a bare bum whacking with a rod like instrument (not a rattan cane) which was stiff and perhaps more solid than a cane. Whether or not it was applied properly is doubtful. I do know I was left black and blue for about a week with the damage getting worse by the 3rd and 4th day after the whacking. It stung but no worse than a razor strop or solid hairbrush. What I did find unusual was the way it stung---contact made with no feeling initially, a second delay and then a deep burn. Most unusual.

I do wonder what it would be like to feel the rattan school cane applied by someone who really knew what they were doing. But alas I don't suspect that I will find too many retired school Headmasters in my neighborhood. <G>

I was 19 years old when I was caned and in my case it was certainly the "worst pain ever felt". I cannot claim to have managed the caning stoically either, having involuntarily cried out vociferously a second or so after each stroke landed.As for the marks, on the evening of the caning there were six distinct raised welts accross my bottom. These became tramline like stripes which eventually took around two weeks to completely disappear.
Good luck in your search for an appropriately experienced schoolmaster.Incidentally,are you still in the United States? Regards, Jonathon.

Jonathan G. asked: "Incidentally,are you still in the United States?"

Yes, I am...which makes it all the more unlikely that I would run across the real Headmaster type I would want to administer the cane.

Also at 19, as compared to my considerably older age, I suspect you would have far more takers to stripe your bum than I would mine. <G>

> Jonathon G
> Posted Sep 29, 2005 6:26 AM

> I was 19 years old when I was caned and in my
> case it was certainly the "worst pain ever felt".
> I cannot claim to have managed the caning stoically
> either, having involuntarily cried out vociferously
> a second or so after each stroke landed. As for
> the marks, on the evening of the caning there
> were six distinct raised welts accross my bottom.
> These became tramline like stripes which eventually
> took around two weeks to completely disappear.

Jonathon, it sounds like you received a genuine six of the best. Congratulations!

KK wrote: "Jonathon, it sounds like you received a genuine six of the best. Congratulations!"


Yes, congratulations Jonathan. Now my question is this: Is there a cash prize that comes with this or at least membership in some club with a secret handshake? <VBG> (Just sour grapes from someone on the outside looking in.)

Crostek wrote (in part):

I have a healthy respect for the cane certainly but a confused one also. I have heard some recipients refer to its bite as the "worst pain ever felt" at on end of the spectrum while hearing other say "thousands of school boys have managed its sting quite stoically and while it hurts it is certainly tolerable." at the other end of the spectrum. I have seen images that suggest that six of the school cane does a good deal of damage that lasts for up to several weeks and images that suggest that it produces no more than red stripes that disappear within an hour or so. There seemns to be no consistent desription or response to what is described as essentially the same experience.

My comments relate to secondary school canings, Male/male, applied to the clothed buttocks only, back in a time when corporal punishment of boys was accepted as the norm.

Doubtless, practices varied from community to community and over time. Even within a school there was likely to be quite a difference between different masters using the cane and between different boys receiving it. The most skilled and resolute master may have caned a great deal harder and more effectively than the least proficient reluctant caner. The canes used may have also varied within a school. They certainly varied between schools and over time.

It does not take much strength to bring a light school cane to an effective speed. It is mainly a matter of technique and timing - coordinating wrist flick, arm swing and torso unwind. A competitive squash or badminton player is likely to be able to cane very much harder than a near geriatric headmaster.

The size, weight and flexibility of the cane has a big effect on the severity of the punishment. Soaking a cane in water "to make it more flexible" makes the cane significantly heavier and more dangerous and more painful. A beating with and iron bar, or something approximating to it, is always going to be more severe than a similar number of strokes from a feather or similar.

A boy's posture and physique has a major effect on the severity of a caning quite aside from the psychology, or his sensitivity. A large, flat, well padded firm muscular backside will be injured much less and will be hurt much less than a small bony bottom or a soft flabby one.

I invite interested persons to compare the experience of receiving the flexible light cane standing with hands on knees with receiving it kneeling with knees against the chest. In the first posture that cane will sink in and produce short but severe welts. In the second posture it can not sink in and will bend and wrap around the curve producing no more than a moderate red mark.

School canings varied greatly in their severity.

KK, thanks for your detailed and comprehensive answer to my questions about school caning. It certainly makes much sense. It does, however, leave one in the same place one started---no real understanding of what a school caning really is because there are too many significant variables involved. Sounds like boys suffered anywhere from a moderate punitive response all the way to something that was both abusive and torturous.

Is there anything that might have generally been considered typical or usual? And at the far end was behavior of Masters considered abusive by others? Or simply severe punishment readily accepted?

And do you speak from the knowledge of a frequent recipient or a frequent wielder of the cane?