When I was a kid, Enid Blyton wasn’t part of my reading horizon. I caught up on Mallory Towers and other school stories when I learned enough English to enjoy them, but Noddy has completely passed me by.
Turns out, I missed out on some crucial spanking scenes, as this article explains:
[Noddy] was my childhood hero.
Yet, as an adult, I have heard him described as … a pervert because of his apparent obsession with spanking.
In my day, Noddy would say to Tessie Bear: “I’m driving my car to Mr Straw’s farm and I expect he’ll be doing a bit of spanking, so you can’t come.”
Come to mention it, that does sound a bit odd now, but the point is it didn’t when I was a child.
As we know, children take things at face value.
Tessie Bear, by the way, was a simpering moron of a girl who would not have been able to stomach the sight of her precious Noddy being beaten to a wooden pulp with a slipper.
That was why she wasn’t allowed to accompany Noddy – not, as you thought, because he was going to indulge in some sort of adult perversion.
No perversion? Damn!
Be it as it may, I’m not going to search the Noddy books for mentions of spanking. I just kind of wish I hadn’t missed them at the age when, not having any outlet for my obsession, I would have enjoyed them so much.
Not just the Noddy books, the Far Away tree had a Dame Spank-a-lot and another had a grumpy man who asked horrid riddles that had no answer and then send you off to be spanked when you got it wrong. Can’t remember the name of the story but the whole village was going around crying and rubbing their bottoms.
And George in the Famous Five got spanked for hiding her dog.
Enid Blyton was such an amazing source of kink reference, they don’t write them like that anymore, SIGH.
Bloody PC nonsense. As the article author says, “it takes an adult to think like that.”