Our wonderful (?) Tory leaders are active in their promotion of the concept of the “Big Society”. I think I get the general idea – that activities previously carried out by the state should instead be undertaken for profit by their private sector friends, or (better still) at no cost whatsoever as local volunteers step forward to put public sector workers out of jobs. [Excuse party political rant – I rather got carried away there!]
Anyway… I took to wondering how this might play out in respect of the discipline of young ladies. I picture the network of Punishment Centres around the country, to which girls have traditionally been sent to be birched, being disbanded at the stroke of the Prime Ministerial pen. Instead, a worthy group of gentlemen would have offered their services free.
No longer would a girl have to present herself at a Centre run by the local council or courts. Rather, she’d be given the address of a private house locally, to which she would be required to report at a specified date and time. Each of the gentlemen in the scheme would have set aside a suitable room in their property for the administration of corporal punishment. With the help of a small set-up grant from the government, they’d have installed a punishment bench; the birches would have been gathered free of charge from the local park.
The girl would knock nervously on the door, and be shown inside. The gentleman concerned – sometimes kindly, sometimes less so – would show her to the room and allow her privacy to strip and position herself over the bench. And then he’d return to tie the leather restraints in place, and to administer her flogging.
You know, I’m rather warming to this “Big Society”. And if any young ladies want to help test the effectiveness of such a scheme, my study stands waiting. We could even send the photos to that nice Mr Cameron (or not, as the case might be).
Well – you can’t just have the birches collected willy-nilly as the stock would become rapidly depleted. The birch trees would have to be properly maintained by qualified tree experts.
A girl who had earned a punishment would have to first attend her local park and present her official letter, so that the Tree Expert would harvest and fashion a birch suitalbe to the girl and the occasion.
He would likely have to state on the letter, the dimensions of the birch he provides, so that parts of it would not go missing en route.
Imagine the humiliation of the girl, having to then make her way from the park to the place of punishment. The dilemma – should she take a bus, thereby hastening to her doom, but also exposing herself to more knowing glances and titters from the other passengers; or would she rather choose to make her way via back streets, where fewer people will see her, but knowing that she runs the risk of making herself late for her appointment?
Again with the Punishment Centers. Where are these places and how do I arrange to live in one?
@Judy – you have to write to Mr Abel Jenkins and you will then receive instructions on where and when to attend….
I believe a naughty woman should pay twice, for mistakes or errors that she makes. First she should pay for upkeep the corporal punishment that she receives. Then pays with her bottom to be so punished, by being birched or caned.
It reminds me of the story “Privatised punishment” except that the services were not free but highly profitable:
http://unclepetersspankingden.thumblogger.com/home/list/2010/49/