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7. Severity
Two main factors contribute to the severity of a beating: the number of strokes and the force with which they are applied. My view is that a cane should always be applied with considerable force, with a flick of the wrist at the end of each stroke to make use of the flexibility of the instrument. When utilised in this way, the cane will impart an excruciating sting to the girl’s bottom without doing lasting damage.
This leaves the number of strokes to be considered. While it is important to impart an effective lesson, it should be remembered that even for an eighteen-year-old a thrashing administered across the sensitive flesh of her bottom, is especially the first time, a traumatic experience. It is important not to get carried away. Decide on the number of strokes before you start, and tell the girl how many she is to get. When they are finished stop. Even if she seems quite calm after the last stroke, do not be tempted to add to the stated tally. Put it down to experience and give her more next time! As a very rough guide, I would say that between six and ten strokes would be appropriate for the first time, rising to eighteen for repeated offending. If unsure, it is probably best to err on the side of severity. Don’t be tempted to test the water with two or three strokes – they will be ineffective and the girl will not respect you for your leniency.
The way the strokes are placed also contributes to the severity of the punishment. Even when knickers are worn it is often possible to see the line of the wheal by a clear mark on the material, so that strokes can be deliberately aimed at a particular part of the buttocks. Closely grouped strokes are more painful than those spread over the whole available surface. A thrashing carried out with the strokes grouped into four inch band towards but not striking the tops of a girl’s thighs will render it almost impossible for her to sit for twenty-four hours or so. I believe that aiming to administer more than one cut along exactly the same line is too cruel but where a severe punishment is needed, aiming to produced a pattern of criss-crossed wheals over the whole bottom is a good tactic.
The young woman herself is probably the best guide in gauging the appropriate severity. Towards the end of the thrashing, she will become acutely distressed – probably crying and begging you to stop caning her. When her punishment is finished she should show obvious signs of repentance, maybe repeating how “sorry” she is. This when the temptation to use words of sympathy is greatest – resist it! Confine yourself to telling her that her punishment will be more severe if she reoffends!
8. Reoffenders
Assuming that your charge is not entirely devoid of reasoning ability, she will have worked out that the best way to avoid further encounters with your cane is to mend her ways. Habits though are not always so easy to break and it maybe that a girl returns to you having committed the same, or very similar misdeed. When dealing with young people, keeping your word is of the utmost importance, so if at the end of her previous chastisement you told her how she would be punished for a further offence, then you must do what you said you would. So if you said it would be “with your knickers down next time” then down they must come, likewise an increased number of strokes must actually be applied.
Even if nothing was said, it is entirely reasonable to increase the punishment for a second offence, say six to ten strokes, or ten to sixteen. If you are constrained by rules as to the maximum number, it is wise to keep one or two below this so as to have something in reserve! Apart from this, keep to much the same procedure.
You may feel worried that there is no end to the problem in sight, but in my experience, a second thrashing for reoffending is not uncommon, but a third is rare. It does, however, happen occasionally and if so then you have no alternative but to carry on along the path you have started. I’ve had the depressing experience of flogging a girl repeatedly for the same offence with only a couple of miscreants and merely comforted myself with the thought that without chastisement, they might have been still worse!
9. The problem of the “good girl”
Why a problem you might wonder, and of course if the girl were really without fault, there wouldn’t be one. No, the sort of individual I refer to has the appearance of virtue: quietly spoken, polite, respectful even the point of obsequiousness, but somehow, whenever there’s trouble, she seems to be there. Maybe she’s new, and your establishment was trouble-free before she arrived, but is now getting out of hand. The problem really is that she appears to commit no actual offence. You know she needs a thrashing, but you can’t work out how to justify it.
My advice is that you don’t have to. You know she’s a bad influence, and so does she. This is perhaps the only case, where the two warning interviews can be dispensed with – you know they’ll be useless – and there is something to be gained from the element of surprise. She won’t be expecting the cane and certainly will not have prepared her “mitigation speech”
You may be used to dealing with girls who are wilful, argumentative, even defiant but this girl will be none of these and will remove her skirt and bend over without protest. This is where you could be tempted to leniency. Don’t fall for it. She is just as bad in her own way as the bully you flogged the day before, who this young minx may well have egged on. A severe beating now will save much future trouble, so give her at least a dozen and make each one really count so that she’s crying uncontrollably by the end. This kind of girl sometimes wants to tell you at length how she’s going to change her ways as a result of her punishment – don’t listen; just get rid of her! Fortunately “good girls” of this kind rarely relish a repeat flogging!
10. Conclusion
I hope that the ideas contained in these notes will be of use to those given the onerous responsibility of supervising the behaviour of senior girls. I would estimate that I have fulfilled this task in respect to some five hundred young women over the years, and at a rough guess I probably thrashed eighty percent of them. In retirement, it is gratifying to receive the occasional word or letter of thanks for the attentions of my cane. In conclusion I would sum up thus: be severe, be fair, and always do what you say you will do.
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