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HORSING

During the C19 at all the great boys public schools of England, such as Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Winchester, corporal punishment was in full force. Some used the birch, whilst others preferred the cane. In some of the colleges the offender was ‘horsed’ by being mounted on the back of some big boy, as in the illustration below:

The horsed position was the most common method used in history for the judicial birching of boys under the age of 10 or 11, who were too small to be secured over a standard size birching horse. In judicial birchings, after being stripped naked from the waist down, the miscreant would be horsed ‘piggy back’ style on the back of a police constable. A second constable would then administer the birching to the boy’s bare bottom. In Victorian and Edwardian times (and earlier), boys as young as 7 could be sentenced to judicial birching.

A similar method of birching small boys (and girls) was used in the nurseries of the great country houses in England. However, in those situations, it would normally be a maid who would horse the child, whilst the governess administered the birch. Nu West’s film ‘The horsing of Lady Jane’ demonstrates this position well:

Different as the position is, one might question how easy it is for anyone to horse a fully-grown adult on their back for very long, particularly if they start wriggling! Needless to say, it seems to have gained a degree of popularity in a number of recent films, especially in ‘Firmhand Spanking’ ones starring Helen Stephens and Belinda Lawson:

Horsing featured in a number of ‘Blushes Magazine’ photo-shoots, the ones below one featuring two schoolgirls being caned by the headmaster in the school gymnasium. In the first collage, the two girls have to horse each other, whilst in the second another teacher horses the girls:

The next two collages are taken from an old ‘Spanking Classics’ film ‘Naval Discipline’ in which there is ‘horsing’ aplenty! About half-way through, two young naval ratings have to report in their gym kit to the gymnasium for a punishment tawsing. They have to horse each other as each is awarded a sound strapping across their bare buttocks. You can see the problem with horsing in the first collage. The ‘horser’ is a lot shorter than the spankee, so she is unable to lift the girl off the ground. Not so in the second collage when they change places!

Later on in the film,  another naval rating (Vida Garman again) is horsed by a WRNS officer for a caning by a male officer:

More to come…

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