Archive for February, 2010
A few years ago, there was a chance reference to a punishment handed out to a ‘loose woman’ on an educational crime and punishment site. It said that the woman should be ‘stocked kneeling to provide for a birching’. The picture published a few days ago this blog had hitherto been considered a fantasy, but […]
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Tags: birching, birching at the pillory, workhouse punishments
Some of the sorority posts seemed to have stirred up a hornet’s nest here. In a post a few weeks back there was an announcement that we would return to this theme. This prompted a woman claiming to have a sorority background to email directly. She was rather peeved (let us say) at what has […]
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Tags: sorority rituals, sorority spanking
More spanking in art
A short while ago we had a short post on spanking in art. As most of you will have noticed many of the images on the web are the same, which we have all seen before and are constantly recycled. Here are two pictures from two different sites that often have images that are original […]
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Tags: erotic art, spanking
In the dark days of the Hapsburg Empire the Austrian nobility valued strict discipline for its sons and daughters. The sons were taken care of in military academies but during the 18th century there were few if any formal schools for young women. Some young women were sent off to Prussia where they went to […]
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Tags: austrian governess, birch, birching, governess, governesses, nuns birching, prussian punishment, punishment
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