Before we start, judicial canes were long and thick. As shown here…
A lot of judicial birches were long with the birch twigs untied at the end, (a little like the Manx Birch, but that had thicker twigs, see below)…Those used in the home or school were usually, but not always shorter as this photo of public school birches show…
Although not public, witnesses were present at birchings and some police officers trained in their use..
Note the judicial cane as shown above resting on the table here…
This waitress is rather forgetful and has had a very bad day, finally she tries the patience of the cafe manager too much, by taking the wrong drinks to the wrong table, just as she is de-corking a bottle! She turns her around, bottle between her legs and spanks the girl! See how the passing girl customer is laughing at her predicament, and everyone turning around to see! “Can you not get anything tight you stupid girl? Bend over!”
smack, smack, smack….
“Next time it will be on your bare bottom, so you had better Buck your ideas up young lady!”
‘Owwww, ooooh stop stop, everyone is looking at me, stop owwwww, yes , I will, just …owwwww!….stop pleeeease!”
Here is some nice artwork depicting public punishments/spankings…
Here are a few newspaper clippings of spankings, I have put them all in here, but not all are public. My favourite one to start is though…
Here are some more…
3 thoughts on “Public Spanking”
I am greatly enjoying your website. I personally enjoy seeing photographs and illustrations of girls and women being publicly punished. I have seen any number of girls of different ages being punished publicly in the past at school, church, in the market, in the park, in car parks, and right on the sidewalk, but not for a long time. Nowadays, most of the girls punished publicly, mostly by their frazzled mothers, are little girls, and if older, are more than likely being given traditional birthday spankings, or boyfriend spanks on their girlfriends jeans clad or skirted bottom. I grew up in the 1950’s and 1960’s in The South, when spanking girls at school and home was very common. I often saw the stripes of a recent switching on the calves of young and older girls, alike. I really do miss those days, but the memories still linger.
I do believe that if public strapping, or paddling of delinquent youth, pilloried as in one of your drawings, was to be reintroduced into law here in America, we would have far less juvenile crime. The offenders buttocks would not even need to be exposed to the crowds that would gather. Only their head, hands, and thighs and calves need be exposed. A “modesty shield” such as those on the front of many secretary desks, would effectively hide the privates of either sex. The area where the public whippings would be administered would only need to have a wooden or metal barrier installed directly behind the raised punishment platform, to deter onlookers from behind. The citizens who would gather to see the sentences carried out would hear the loud piercing cracks of thick, oiled leather or aged solid oak striking bare flesh, over and over, and over. They would personally witness the pleas, begging, loud cries, yelling and screaming from the mouths of those being soundly paddled or strapped the requisite number of strokes. The crowd would see the suffering grimaces of judicially prescribed pain on the delinquents faces, their faces turn red, their noses drip involuntarily, the tears stream down their cheeks and drip onto the platform, their hair become matted and brows sweat, and likely they would see knees buckle and the young offender’s legs having to be strapped to stanchions to support them till their whipping has been completed. Both young males and females would be eligible for a sentence of public corporal punishment. Vandalism is vandalism, and girls bottoms are no less suited for strong medicine than are boys.
This return to an older form of justice, seen by men and women, and particularly by children at the impressionable ages when lessons in the consequences of bad behaviour can be inculcated in them, would serve to keep neighborhoods safer, parents jobs easier, and with less teenage rebellion, and would help to encourage young offenders to resolve to walk the straight and narrow path. After all, soundly applied corporal punishment would be an experience few teens would likely want to have revisited on their bared behinds.
That is a very well written comment. Thank you very much for taking the time out to post it.
you are my inspiration , I possess few blogs and very sporadically run out from to post : (.
I am greatly enjoying your website. I personally enjoy seeing photographs and illustrations of girls and women being publicly punished. I have seen any number of girls of different ages being punished publicly in the past at school, church, in the market, in the park, in car parks, and right on the sidewalk, but not for a long time. Nowadays, most of the girls punished publicly, mostly by their frazzled mothers, are little girls, and if older, are more than likely being given traditional birthday spankings, or boyfriend spanks on their girlfriends jeans clad or skirted bottom. I grew up in the 1950’s and 1960’s in The South, when spanking girls at school and home was very common. I often saw the stripes of a recent switching on the calves of young and older girls, alike. I really do miss those days, but the memories still linger.
I do believe that if public strapping, or paddling of delinquent youth, pilloried as in one of your drawings, was to be reintroduced into law here in America, we would have far less juvenile crime. The offenders buttocks would not even need to be exposed to the crowds that would gather. Only their head, hands, and thighs and calves need be exposed. A “modesty shield” such as those on the front of many secretary desks, would effectively hide the privates of either sex. The area where the public whippings would be administered would only need to have a wooden or metal barrier installed directly behind the raised punishment platform, to deter onlookers from behind. The citizens who would gather to see the sentences carried out would hear the loud piercing cracks of thick, oiled leather or aged solid oak striking bare flesh, over and over, and over. They would personally witness the pleas, begging, loud cries, yelling and screaming from the mouths of those being soundly paddled or strapped the requisite number of strokes. The crowd would see the suffering grimaces of judicially prescribed pain on the delinquents faces, their faces turn red, their noses drip involuntarily, the tears stream down their cheeks and drip onto the platform, their hair become matted and brows sweat, and likely they would see knees buckle and the young offender’s legs having to be strapped to stanchions to support them till their whipping has been completed. Both young males and females would be eligible for a sentence of public corporal punishment. Vandalism is vandalism, and girls bottoms are no less suited for strong medicine than are boys.
This return to an older form of justice, seen by men and women, and particularly by children at the impressionable ages when lessons in the consequences of bad behaviour can be inculcated in them, would serve to keep neighborhoods safer, parents jobs easier, and with less teenage rebellion, and would help to encourage young offenders to resolve to walk the straight and narrow path. After all, soundly applied corporal punishment would be an experience few teens would likely want to have revisited on their bared behinds.
That is a very well written comment. Thank you very much for taking the time out to post it.
you are my inspiration , I possess few blogs and very sporadically run out from to post : (.