Doctor Mike wrote:Haroldtwincy wrote:Like all pupils at a Public School one expected sooner or later to be caned, one dreaded the moment only knowing by rumour and ear what it would be like. Public caning was not practiced very often.
I was introduced to the cane in the late 1050's when our Form Master lost it and decided to cane the whole class. I remember as if it was yesterday when it came to my turn to bend over and touch my tows. The surprise that it didn't hurt very much, that was untill about 20 seconds later when I was back at my desk, I was aware of the sudden appearance of an erection in my trousers and a sharp pain throbbing from my bottom up my spine, it was not unpleasant but it did hurt!
Like the others at break I went to the lavatory to look at the damage, I could feel the lump of the single stripe and could just see the classic twin tracks of deep red with white in between, by tea time they would be dark blue as the bruise developed. Later just grinding my buttocks into the desk seat where the bruise was would produce an erection.
The next time was memorable if only for the occasion, It was in gym by our second gym master a Turk who was a brute and strong, the pain was much greater the single stroke having been laid on especially hard through only my shorts and with great accuracy, the "mark" took five weeks to go away.
The next time was rather more serious. Two of us were in trouble and told by the master a Physics Master called Hancock (I'll never forget him) to report to the First Aid Room which doubled as an execution chamber! WE knew we were going to be caned and Hancock's reputation went before him! He arrived carrying the standard senior school can between 3/8" & 1./2" thick straight and made from rattan cane. The other boy (David Brett) went in first and after some talking a brief silence and then the whistle of the cane and the "thwack as it hit the target" Repeated four times! David came out looking white but walking! Then it was my turn, "bend down" some fumbling as he hitched up my jacket and felt to ensure I hadn't put on any padding like extra pants or gym shorts, he pulled up my shirt tail which I had carefully pulled right down. "Four and don't move!" Then swish crack thump as the first stroke hit home, not too bad, but I spoke too soon at about ten second intervals, and by the time he'd laid on the fourth my bottom was really thumping! The usual erection was by now showing.
He then left the room with me and told us both to report to the matron after school.
I went straight after teas and Matron was expecting me, she was a very neat 20 year old assistant matron.
She made me take off my trousers and lay down on the couch in the room, she rubbed in some cream and told me to turn over. Why? I turned over and there she was naked. She pounced on me and took me into her very quickly and went at it, demanding that I then come on top of her, the ejaculation was a blessed relief, and it's no wonder that I got a taste for being caned!
Yes, it is true to say that the sexual effects of corporal punishment have affected boys much more than girls over the centuries, simply because they were much more often the victims of it.
Britains great public schools - Eton, Harrow etc. were renowned for their excessive use of the cane, and going back to Victorian times and beyond, the birch. The birchings at Eton in the 18th and early 19th centuries were notorious for their brutality, and historically well documented. They were always applied to the bare bottom, and up to 4 or 5 dozen strokes could be given to senior boys of 14 and over. Birchings of younger boys (aged 10 to 13) in the "Lower School" were almost as cruel, with 2 or 3 dozen strokes at a typical "flogging" as they were termed. Eton had an infamous "flogging block" which was a piece of furniture on which boys, after lowering, or completely removing, their breeches (trousers) and any undergarments, had to "mount" to be birched on their bare bottoms. The "block" was a kind of low bench, with a lower step, on which the victim knelt, and an upper step which he then bent over resting his torso on, and placing his hands flat on the floor on the other side. In this kneeling and bent position, his bare bottom was thrust up in the air ready for the birch. Younger boys in the lower school were usually strapped to the block to ensure they did not move, but older boys were expected to maintain the position without restraint.
The Eton birch was a grotesque instrument. A 5 foot long, thick, weighty bundle of birch twigs (3 foot of handle, and 2 foot of "bush"), the bush being the "business end", where the twigs all spread out into a dense spray, with the rough buds still on them. The birches were soaked in brine for several days prior to use to make them more supple and strong.
After a severe flogging of several dozen strokes, or "cuts" as they were sometimes called, the whole of a boy's bare buttocks and upper thighs would be a completely raw mass of bloody, wealed, and lacerated flesh, often consigning him to bed for several days to recover.
Most interesting, though, is that it was often recorded that boys rising from the "block" after a severe flogging, were seen to have a full, or at lease a partial, erection, dispite showing nothing but extreme pain and distress during the punishment. The younger (lower school) boys, invariable crying and whimpering, and had often wet the flogging block as well during the punishment.
It is astonishing to think, in these days of enlightenment, that society's most respected institutions once treated it's child and adolescent boys in this cruel way.
I, at 14, used to get a huge sexual kick out of watching the girls getting caned. Believe it or not, but in those 'good old' days, girls up to the age of 16 were required to do PE in just their 
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