another spanking true story

[Redskinluver]

Interesting to see people with experience with the switch.Thats an implement you don't see discussed a lot on spanking sites. In fact, when you say "switch" its assumed you are talking about people who like to both give and receive spankings.
The switch was a very common tool of discipline in the rural South where I grew up, and I suspect in other rural parts of the country too. I suspect one reason its use has declined is because we are a more urban society. People have small yards or no yards in the case of apartment dwellers. No handy trees or bushes like country folk had
I remember hearing when was maybe 10 or so other family members talking about what had happened to a distant teenage cousin. She had not gone home on the school bus after school, but went off with a boy in his car.
When she got home,so I remember hearing, her mother lifted up her dress and gave her a switching on the bare bottom(can assume she pulled down her panties).I remember the phrase "left stripes on it." And had this strange excited feeling hearing this. So like I say my "spanko brain cells" go way back.
One of my favorite spanking scenarios/fantasies is in fact maternal discipline of teen or adult daughters. On the other hand,father/daughter scenes are not something I care for at all, for whatever reason.
As Jenny pointed out, it was common to use the switch on the legs as as well as or instead of the bottom.Oldtimers would speak of someone "getting a switching on the naked legs" so this must not have been uncommon.
I have often thought, that given the modern trend of more revealing fashions, that girls are lucky the switch has fallen out of use. I also wonder whether back in the 40s and 50s when fashions like short shorts and bikinis first came on the scene-and when parental corporal discipline was still widely accepted, if some girls might very well have gotten their legs switched by conservative parents or other adults in authority. Would not be surprising.

[RG_]

Originally Posted by Redskinluver

would speak of someone "getting a switching on the naked legs" so this must not have been uncommon.

Not uncommon at all. I don't recall any of the countless strokes with a switch that I got while growing up landing anywhere else but the legs.

[Adelina]

Originally Posted by RG_

Not uncommon at all. I don't recall any of the countless strokes with a switch that I got while growing up landing anywhere else but the legs.

Out of curiosity, would you still consider yourself having been "spanked" if nothing actually landed on the bottom? I would not, but as has been said, definitions differ widely. Doesn't make it unacceptable or off topic or what have you, simply not pure spanking in my understanding of it. It's more like whipping.

[RG_]

Originally Posted by Adelina

Out of curiosity, would you still consider yourself having been "spanked" if nothing actually landed on the bottom? I would not, but as has been said, definitions differ widely. Doesn't make it unacceptable or off topic or what have you, simply not pure spanking in my understanding of it. It's more like whipping.

Actually, Adelina, I agree entirely with you. I've never considered myself to have been "spanked," growing up for that very reason, it was all on the legs. And the term that I, my parents, and just about all others used was "whipped," as you note.

I do consider, however, the "whipping," as it was done, to be appropriate corporal punishment, and so here we have to be careful with how we actually use words. In today's world if I said that I was never "spanked" growing up, the great majority of people would take that to mean that I wasn't corporally punished in any way. Just the opposite is true, of course.

[RG_]

Oh, and Adelina, welcome to MSF, now that you are posting! I specifically recruited you because you are among those who I think will help to broaden the focus and discuscsion here, bring a unique perspective, and generally all around be a real asset. As I noted with another, your addition raises the bar here.

Existing members, please welcome Adelina! This is another that I know real life. She has been to my house before, and we have both attended a common event. She's a jewel, for sure.

[sarah thorne]

I was never whipped with a switch growing up, altho I knew full well they were used for CP on other kids. A 'bundle of switches' in your stocking was threatened rather than lumps of coal for bad children.

Nope - not until RG introduced me to the nasty thing. It was the very first thing he ever spanked me with!

I think he's used it two other times on me. And while it didn't have the same impression as the first time, it definitely is not my choice of implements.

Perhaps I will post the story of my first switching.

sarah

[sandy]

I never experienced the switch until a year or so ago, and it was memorable. It was all administered to my bottom, but it still burned. Of course, lately, I've had the cane used on me quite a bit...so I'm beginning to remember the switching with just a teensy bit of fondness.

I haven't experienced anything that equals the cane...from the initial shocking landing to the afterburn. I definitely have a like/hate relationship with the cane. Sometimes I hate it, sometimes...especially after a really good warm-up....I kinda like it. I've never loved it though. For it to be love, it has to be leather.