United States, paddle in principal's office, in frequent use, Alvarado High School, Texas, 2012 (also video clip) South Africa: photo showing student in school uniform bending over for the cane, pre-1996, presumably posed but positioning is authentic Dummy demonstrations or artists' impressions of prison, military, reformatory or slave corporal punishment - Washington, Frederic, now 23 in 2012, was paddled on at least 30 occasions at Caddo Parish Schools in Louisiana up to 2007 USA: Kouchalakos, Peter, junior high school principal in Florida, pictured with autographed paddles, 1976

United Kingdom, 1935 whipping frame from Wandsworth Prison, on display in a museum, together with its designer's drawings United States?: posed picture of small boy bending over to be paddled with a table-tennis bat, date unknown Peru: Youth being strapped by his father over his shorts, apparently under police supervision, 2018 (also video clip)

Miss Barton Dressed In A Late Victorian Tennis Outfit

United States: high-school student in North Carolina receiving birthday spanking in class, 2014 (also video clip) UK: Court Lees Approved School, subject of official inquiry into excessive corporal punishment of boys, 1967 My wife and I feel quite ashamed to admit that our two eldest daughters, Charlotte and Samantha, twins, but not identical, have become unruly, rude, haughty and quite simply out of control. In two years or so we want them to enter society as young ladies.

In my serial The Governess, teenagers Jacob and Amelia meet their match in the guise of the steely Miss Eversham, who very soon takes control. United Kingdom: artist's impression of flogging of junior seaman over the bare breech on board ship, c.1850Spanking is almost as old as time itself. Whether for punishment, pleasure, or perhaps some other dubious purpose (and there are a few of those), spanking is ingrained in human culture probably more than any other fetish. Goodwin, Barry, 9, had to touch his toes for pants-down caning at prep school, pictured with his mother, UK, 1933 We have agreed to her being able to punish the girls in any manner she seems fit, with no limits on the length or strength of the punishments. They are totally in her strict care, a life of discipline awaits them.