Spanking in Movies, TV, and Books

I quite liked Anne McCaffrey's Dragon books - in the first of them featuring the young harper Menolly, she is given a severe belting bent over the harper chair by her father for making up songs and teaching the children them rather than ensuring they stick to the traditional ballads. But it's not meant to be salacious and the planet of Pern's not exactly Gor

Geoffrey, the scene from Outlander you mention was done for real. Caitríona Balfe in an interview said that they planned every part of that scene. She said they found a very thin belt but it was really used on her. Not faked. Suffering for her art, indeed!

Penryn, thanks for that insight. I will rewatch in that knowledge.

Geoffrey Stirling.

One of the best mainstream-movie spankings, I reckon, comes in a little-known 1945 Western called Frontier Gal (aka The Bride Wasn't Willing). At the end of the film the hero, played by Rod Cameron, sits down on a handy log, hauls stubborn Yvonne De Carlo over his lap and administers a sound hand-spanking to convince her that he's the guy for her. This is a good thorough chastisement of some 40 spanks (some off-screen), carried out with gusto, and watched by De Carlo's wide-eyed little daughter. When it's over the moppet exclaims, "You spanked my Mommy! That means you love her!" Bright kid.

Did anyone mention Godless (a Netflix mini series from a couple of years back)?

https://voiceinthecorner.com/2018/09/28/a-western-switching/

I think I mentioned it somewhere, but not sure it was on this thread. It was quite an intense switching and looked real for the time it was portraying.

The British mystery series, "Father Brown" had an episode I just saw on DVD. A newly arrived debutante to the local private school is sexual and mean. She mentions to the 'Father' that where she attended boarding school before, she was over a knee for something or the other almost every day.

There was a spanking mention in the TV series Agent Carter. Peggy recounts a high school escapade to a friend, and she mentions them breaking a few switches on her behind. I found that incorrect really. Peggy was British and she attended an English boarding school. I think she would have been caned, not switched and she probably would have described it as being given six of the best.

I'd agree. At English boarding schools (I attended one, and utterly horrible it was too) the cane was the standard implement of punishment, by masters or prefects. Switches were unknown. (See Lindsay Anderson's 'If....' for a classic depiction.) In the gym, though, the gym teacher would typically use the sole of his plimsoll.

"If" is an amazing film, quite apart from the prefect/pupil, m/m caning, and quite realistic in its depiction of English "public school" life at the time. (Note, an English "public school" is in fact a very expensive, traditional, private school, think Eton, Harrow, Winchester etc). In their day (they still exist but in a more humane form) they were notorious hotbeds of M/m corporal punishment. The vast majority of their pupils were boarders.

I went to a non-trad public school in the 60s where most of the, all male, pupils were "day boys". CP was in regular use but declining. It did not survive the reduction of the age of majority/voting age to 18.

Those of us who boarded (60 boys out of a total roll of about 400) lived in boarding houses, presided over by a House Master, assisted by a House Tutor.

The whole school was presided over by the Headmaster, or Head.

The Head and the House Masters used the cane--3 or 6 strokes.

The House Tutors used the slipper, generally the boy's own.

The gym master used a gym shoe.

All were intensely painful and I didn't enjoy them one little bit. I got lots as I was not a good boy.

Most slipperings in the boarding houses were administered by the House Tutor for talking in the dormitories after lights out. Every one out of bed, bend over the end of the beds and get three whacks on pyjama clad bottoms.

If it was the House Master then it was downstairs, queue up at the bottom and then go forward in turn, bend on the stairs for three strokes of the cane.

At my school, prefects were not permitted to use CP and by that time is was going out of fashion at the more traditional schools.

I know that is largely irrelevant to the topic, apart from the mention of "If", but I felt it might be of interest to the readership.

Geoffrey Stirling.