Thanks for you reply.

For a start yes i am english and we do have a drinking age of 18.

Ask any questions you like. It still amazes me to this day that it happend and i never told anyone else about it about from on these forums hiding behind a user name!!!
Its so truew what people say about the taking down of your jeans and underpants as being so humiliating, im sure your underpants wouldnt offer much in the way of protection to a cane but the humiliation is certainly increased being naked from the waist down.
You are also correct about the sitting down afterwards, i had gotten 12 huge strokes!!!