What is your favourite era for a story to be set in?

@ Hotspur

Girls were definitely not hit at my SecMod. We would have known about it if they were. Canings were rare and were reserved for bullying, serious fighting (not just a scrap) and smoking, which I don't recall the girls ever engaging in. Only the Head caned.

I am particularly fond of cp-related stories set in Olde Englad - e.g. Tudor, Victorian and Edwardian scenarios.

Galt54 - Would you say that Olde Englande was different to Olde Swedene between the Tudor and Edwardian eras when it comes to CP?

No one's mentioned the Victorian/Edwardian era yet, but it does offer a nice contrast between the outwardly respectable formality of public life, and the sort of things that might go on behind closed doors.

Consider the opportunities for disciplining errant servant-girls, or female relatives, of gentleman's clubs offering 'private entertainments' and of British empire-builders 'civilising' the behaviour of native girls around the world by the application of strap or birch!

There's nothing like the present.

I too find the '50s and '60s the best times for stories. In both the US and the UK, women did have more leverage and school-age girls and boys were subject to spanking, caning, and other punishments. The UK of course had the cane and the slipper while in the US, spanking was still common outside the South, where paddling still persists. Women's lingerie was both modern and sometimes delightfully old-fashioned. I recall that wonderful lingerie shop near Highbury & Islington tube stop where charming old-time control garments--girdles--were exhibited in the front window. My mother still used a sanitary belt for that time of the month. Growing up in the US meant that we girls were shown incredibly sanitized training films to prepare us for menarche.

Brosse6

I do not know much about cp in Sweden in the "bad old days". I believe that the cane was employed in Swedish schools before scholastic cp was abolished by means of a law passed in the year 1958. The birch was probably also often employed in the old days in Sweden. And, of course, Swedish parents knew how to carry out a hand spanking on their kids.

Personally. I love the era of the old-west in the Americas. It was just on the tail-end of violence and the challenges of forging a new home in areas still inhabited by native Americans, but it was on the opening end of the industrial revolution, so you still had horses and buggies but, likewise, massive railway trains crisscrossed the land.

Men dressed like cowboys, but also dressed like dapper gentlemen of Europe. Women were beginning to be educated, but still got taken to the woodshed like naughty children, regardless of their adult status.

It was an era of contrasts. Things were ending just as new things were beginning. People were innocent, yet, people were harsh. People were literate and yet people wore a six-gun on their hips.

This era was short, but left the imagination an unlimited source of raw material for stories concerning our favorite topic.

This era mirrors the wonderful Victorian Era in England and the Empire. That would be my second choice, with people being judged by their fortunes and being punished by their misfortune or lack of fortune! People of quality becoming scullery maids? The humiliation alone would be immeasurable.

Since I have no interest in children or stories of their sufferings , the punishments of adults during these times are not only plausible, but actually happened! In many cases reality challenges the best fiction.

galt54

I would assume that there must be historical archive material on spankings in Sweden before the bans, much like there are in the UK. Probably a lot of potential there for new avenues on the genre of spanking stories.

I assume there must be mainstream Swedish novels that have a spanking in them? Autobiographies of Swede's describing the spankings they got at school or home in the old days?

It sounds like a great research project to find the old Swedish sources and translate them into English.

Brosse6 and galt54

The Swedish film, Fanny and Alexander, has a caning scene in it. And a more recent film I saw a few years ago, Evil, has the teenage boy beaten by his stepfather. He's then sent to a boarding school but the school seems to rely on prefects thumping younger boys in the head rather than caning them.