The web is littered with discussion boards featuring threads on corporal punishment. Many of the entries are clearly works of fantasy; that said, the entertaining fictional interludes come with the added frisson that they might – just – be genuine.
Take the following, from Scarlett, a poster on The Answer Bank:
My school had a cane, and it was very rarely used – but the fact that it was there acted as a deterrent…. In fact I only remember it being used once, on a girl (!) who set a fire extinguisher off. Everyone in the school was SO shocked that the cane was finally being used, we didn’t dare BREATHE next to a fire extinguisher after that!
I can just imagine Haron breathing on fire extinguishers wherever we go in the next few days, just to show off her bravery…
Having read Fireman Chris’ reaction to Sparkle setting off a smoke detector (I’m simplifying, I know), I don’t even want to speculate what would have happened to Scarlett’s schoolfriend if Fireman Chris had been the fireman on duty the day she set off the school’s fire alarm. My concern however is for those students using classrooms near the fire extinguishers thereafter – asphyxiation of students should not be tolerated!!
I shall make a point on breathing on every fire extinguisher I see this week – in the hope of leading Haron astray (not that it takes much!). I’m obviously feeling bold and bad!
Rob – LOL you’re not into strangling students? Can’t imagine why!
Rapunzel – You’re only feeling bold ’cause we’re not seeing you for a few of weeks. I’m sure Abel is taking notes, though. 😛 It really doesn’t take much to lead me astray, you’re right in that regard
So that’s how vanillas feel around a cane in use. Interesting. Good thing Haron is not a vanilla, or else she would suffocate in your household! 😉 *giggles* Even I would have a hard time bratting around all the implements you guys have.
Hugz!
I feel slightly smited by being called a vanilla. Does that mean there is hope for me yet?? (If I do say so myself I’m making progress where the cane is concerned – geeeesh – you guys are such taskmasters!!!!! LOL)
At least I know how to spot spankos over the next week or so… all those eying up fire extinguishers hopefully and all those brave enough to be breathing on them! 😉
Hm, I wonder what would happen to those adventurous souls who dared to stick their tongues out at said extinguishers.
Not that *I* would dream of doing anything like that. I’m just curious about what might befall those who did.
(grin)
I’ve just been very naughty with this topic in mind, out on a driving lesson, I passed a fire engine (which is of course a great big fire extinguisher)and stuck my tongue out at it… no repercussions at all yet apart from a puzzled look from my instructor!
If only the passengers around me as I read Sarah’s fire engine comment knew why I was laughing out loud…! (Prize for the funniest comment of the year?)
Iris: I think that would be classed as insolence, meriting a most uncomfortable discussion!
Now, as to cane – after all the homemade birches, belts, wooden utensils, and switches, I am giving my [vanilla] husband a cane for Christmas, is there something to be aware of when you use it for the first time and have no previous experience with a cane? I mean, from a safety standpoint. I also can’t even imagine what it would really feel like to be caned. What does it really feel like? I mean I’ll find out soon enough, but would be interesting to hear. Thanks!
Abel: Re ‘Funniest Comment of the Year – I hope you won’t forget Minxette’s ‘Run, girl, run comment after your dream about the girl coming to stay. I was giggling all day after reading that. Interesting to read that Minxette was your mystery house guest this weekend, and her questioning of chewing gum protocol. How quickly we forget!
Amber
I can comment on the “safe way to use a cane” with greater experience than on the “what does it feel like” front. Others here may want to chip in experiences from that end of the rattan!
A few tips for your top:
1. Practice. Find some disobedient cushions or pillows, and punish them thoroughly until you’re confident that the strokes land where you’re intending them to.
2. Remember, you’re caning a girl’s backside. Not her hips, not her back, not her thighs (well, that can be fun, but…). Most nasty bruises result from inaccurate shots. High strokes can be dangerouse, too.
3. If in any doubt, hold the cane some way down its length. A shorter cane is easier to wield accurately than a long one.
4. Measure out the stroke. Tap, tap, tapping on the target helps with the aim (and the girl’s anticipation).
5. Don’t draw the cane back too far or too high. You’re not trying to whip the ceiling.
6. Leave plenty of time between strokes. Twenty seconds or so will help the pain of the previous stroke reach its climax before the next one lands.
7. Check that the girl is comfortable. OK, she’ll be squealing, but there’s good discomfort and bad discomfort….
8. And (slightly contrary to my opening comment) get your top to let you give them a stroke. A good top should always know what an implement feels like: it helps them measure it more effectively. LOL I am on record as making a very loud, very rude comment when receiving my one proper cane stroke ever…!
Hope you have great fun! Christmas being Jesus’s birthday, does that mean you’re in for 2006 strokes?
Thanks a lot, Abel, it’s a wonderful, thoughful list of suggestions – I will be sure to pass them on :). As to 2006 storkes – well, that ain’t my birthday, after all. Maybe I could negotiate them down to six, although my man doesn’t normally yield to pleading for reduced sentence 😉
I’ve got another question about caning for Abel and Haron – how thick are you canes? That seems to make quite a bit of a difference.
Thanks,
Amber
If I was headmaster of that school, the cane would certainly be on display, but in a different manner. Every morning naughty girls would be made to come front and center in the class, raise their school tunis waist high, bend over a stool, whereupon I would be delighted to take down their knickers, and cane them on their bare tender bottoms. And if a female teacher, also had displeased me, the same would happen to her. Yes it might be embarrassing, shameful, and humiliating for her, but if she deserved it. So be it.