A rare piece of historic actuality: four-minute extract from a 1978 TV documentary showing a high-school punishment session in Pennsylvania. What if you believe your husband is having emotional relationships with other women, who visit him?

I was terrified of having anyone know that I was being sparked and she said if I violated rules with other present that she would take me someplace and blister me even if others could hear. Between my sobbing and begging and cursing, I counted each stroke, and thanked her for each, as clearly as I could. After a while, I forgot to count. The pain was all I could think about. The caning continued at a steady, regular pace, despite my yelling. I was out of control after a while, just yelling and struggling with the tight straps, held perfectly in position. I heard Mrs. Grange breathing louder with the effort she was putting into her strokes. She began to laugh out loud as my shouting got louder. Between the steady pace of strokes, she spoke into my ear. ‘That’s it, boy…..howl away!…. that’s how I know its hurting!….. you have lost more to come! A nice steady pace, no matter how much you yell! And remember, it’s going to hurt more and more as I go on!’

She decided to apply some pressure to A, who stood beside me. She placed a chair in front of her desk and sat down on it, the spoke directly to the lad. “You’re first – so if I were you I’d speak up, young man.” I didn’t know if A knew who had done it or not, but he didn’t say anything. Anyway, Mrs Watson announced that time was up. In a dormitory in Romania, serious bare-bottom pain for a young man being initiated into a sports team. United States: TV news report from April 2008: a Texas mother is angry about the severity with which, she says, her 17-year-old son (seen in the film playing drums) was paddled at high school.

United Kingdom: TV news report: Sequel to the above item. The Court of Appeal rejects a Christian school's claim that the ban on CP is a contravention of human rights (2002).United States: TV news report, Oct 2011: reactions to new law in North Carolina under which parents may exempt their students from CP.

I heard one of the watching ladies laugh, and the murmur of their voices. A bell gave a soft chime. ‘Your ten seconds are up, boy, so that stroke must be repeated’ said Mrs. Grange calmly. Good. Now prepare yourself. This is going to sting, but you really need this. I think you've needed it for quite some time." TV news report (in Korean) shows students presenting their teachers with gifts of punishment canes, sent by their parents to help keep them in line. You know, that was only six strokes. I still owe you another stroke," Pamela warned her husband in a sterner tone. Colin was traumatised at this awful news. United States: A follow-up report (Dec 2008) on the above. Two coaches are fired for illegal paddling in Chicago schools.Really no need to be sorry. There was not really such an awful lot of wisdom that I was attempting to add anyway, and I did not expect an answer at all. United States: TV news report, July 2012: A school district in Tennessee decides that parents will be assumed to consent to CP unless they state to the contrary in writing (instead of the other way round). A Texas high-school principal is suspended over allegations that he paddled a student too hard. Bruises are seen. Please........please, please, please! I can’t take that many! I can’t! Please, no more!” I heard myself yelling.

So…I’ve been asked a variety of questions around the topic of getting domestic discipline spankings and so thought I’d respond to them all here.I strained with all my strength against the leather straps. They would not give! I waved my hands and feet wildly, trying to find a surface to push against. I found nothing but air. I lay helpessly strapped across the trestle. I gasped for breath. It was hard to breath, the straps were so tight. The single line of pain still burned across my ass.