The Caning of the Female Bottom
Life often moves in a full
circle. This letter (above) in the London
Daily Telegraph
in early 2006 illustrates this. When circumstances
permit, traditions quietly slip back in. This evidence that caning was brought back during
World War II is hardly surprising. With little supervision and pressure to get on with the
job, the cane was a natural method of maintaining discipline. The War also meant a
dramatic surge of women involved in all aspects of the economy as more and more men went
off to war. Sometimes there were some very difficult situations. many unruly girls from
the inner cities were moved into the country to work as
Land Girls.
It was not be surprising that the cane was brought in to maintain order.
But of course the motives were mixed. A girl bent over for the cane is
in a very similar situation to a girl about to be taken in sexual
intercourse, doggy-style; a clear erotic overtone. As we said above,
some women - some 18% of women according to Kinsey - find corporal
punishment erotic. This is not surprising. A woman writhing her hips
during a spanking or caning is working all three erogenous zones between
her legs; the clitoris, G-spot and cervix, which of course accounts for
all those orgasms during caning that so shocked our Victorian
forebearers.
So in effect, we have come full circle, with the shapely female bottom
again the target for a whippy cane.
Nothing is new:
"Physical Punishments shall be [limited to]
slapping on her buttocks three times with the hand, a rope or a bamboo
cane."
Kautilya,
The Arthasastra, India
Written in the Third Century BC