barretthunter:
These kind of stories are a real education for us Brits. We don't have anything like these sonorities in our universities. Maybe they have some link to the old German duelling societies? There have been, though, initiation ceremonies to some jobs, sometimes no more than being soaked with water, sometimes harsher. Apparently it used to be common in UK police for new female recruits to be "stamped on the bare bottom with the station rubber stamp"! Presumably this was so that if they got lost and fell into the hands of criminals or public-spirited citizens, the place they should be returned to was displayed where their finders' attention would naturally be directed.
Here in the U.S.A., newly-hired female employees of the U.S. Post Office (now called the Postal Service) once reputedly had their bare derrieres stamped based on their spankability, since the postmaster-general (a title no longer in use) often personally disciplined women in the USPO via panties-down OTK punishments.
A rather slightly-built 'waif' type, who could safely be given only moderate handsmackings, was generally stamped "FRAGILE: HANDLE WITH CARE," while a more buxom young lady with a nicely-rounded spankable bottom, one that could endure frequent sound paddlings and/or hairbrush whackings, would invariably be stamped "THIS END UP," meaning that she should be upended and bared for extended chastisement on a regular basis.
However, this time-honored albeit unofficial practice was reported to have been terminated under the Nixon Administration back in 1969, which was a severe blow to American spankophiles across the country.
"That's a total dramatization (i.e., fabrication), of course..." --the Geico gekko, current advertising symbol --C.K.
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