- My experience of the strap is as used in the North of England which is mainly on the hand. I have seen it used extensively up to early 70's. Naturally mainly on the boys.
It was used on girls in the 70's - my wife recalls getting it.
It would be used sometimes( not often) on the bottom as a tawse. Again mainly on boys.
An unfortunate girl could be on the receiving end of a tawsing on her pants - this was common up to the 50's.
It was felt that this was too extreme as a form of cp.
Does anyone else have Tawse stories?
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