Who Was Paddled At School?

[garyspk]

Hi there Megan,

Welcome to the forum. You don't realize it probably, but you and I have a common friend. That would be Steve in Atlanta. And we should get him to sign up here.

I agree with my friends WoodPaddles and Brian, you should post your stories. We'd love to hear them.

[RG_]

So Megan arrives! And tardy again, I see, as usual. The forum is already well off and running on it's new start. Perhaps a trip to the principals office might be in order here.

Originally Posted by Megan1975

BTW, I am confident RG will concur that my senior year paddling was wholly undeserved.

Megan, in all the years that I've known you and that goes back to...hmmm...I don't recall exactly now, but well back into the 90's, not too terribly long after you got out of school...I have no doubt that there are very few things that have come to pass for you on your own volition, good or bad, that you have not richly deserved.

Originally Posted by Megan

In all events, I am looking forward to participating in this forum.

And in all events, I am sure that this new forum will be significantly enhanced by your presence.

So that being said and another of my long term friends having arrived, let me do a bit of an introduction for Megan.

There are many things to be said about her, but I'll highlight one of the perhaps more unexpected. Some of you may recall that my old website, Paddled At School, has been mentioned here a time or two in passing. It was a website devoted to the gathering and offering of factual information about school paddling in the U.S., and involved many aspects. There we news articles and other printed articles, video clips from television reports, pictures of all sorts, transcripts of interviews with real people (not the internet fantasizers) who had been paddled at school or had some significant other experience with it, a very active message board base, and more. It was one of a rare handful of websites devoted to factual information and I worked hard to make it successful. There was a little behind-the-scenes confraternity of sorts of the providers of factual CP sites, which included Colin Farrells World Corporal Punishment Research site and Paul's Spanking Facts and Research site (I invited Paul to join here today, as a matter of fact). I say all of that not to brag on the site, which suffered its sad demise a few years ago when the service provider killed it, but to note that it was a site into serious research at a high level. And that statement is what brings me back to Megan! Megan ranks among the most prodigious researchers of factual information about real school paddling in American schools and, to a lesser degree, real information about spankings growing up, that I know! Her fun and free wheeling social style on the boards (a good bit of which you have already seen in her first post ), her relative youth (which is not quite-as-youthful as it once was), and, I think to some, the fact that she's female, can tend to cloud this aspect of her to most, I think, but I consider her to be among the top rank of the "profession" so to speak. She is responsible for a great deal of the material which ultimately appeared on PAS.

Megan was the owner of an old school paddling related website known as "Fiery Fannies," which, while it still had much to do with factual CP, also had a well-deserved reputation for a lot of fun tongue-in-cheek discussion, also. And I can warn you now that Megan often has her tongue implanted firmly into her cheek! So members beware.

She's a Southern patriot of the first order, well versed in theological thought and apologetics, a Tar Heel by birth and rearing, and an all-around good person to have on a board like MSF.

Originally Posted by Megan1975

I see a couple of old friends here, including RG who is very familiar with the story of how a friend and I each received five licks in high school shortly before my 18th b-day in 1993.

This story is one of the most well written, detailed accounts of a school paddling that I have ever seen on the net, and I've seen more than a few. Later, as Megan and I collaborated more closely, she expanded the story some to include a few more details. On a serious note, I think she should post it under it's own title.

(NOTE TO GARY: Gary, I think that this is the time to start a "Real Life" discussion category, too, for the placement of such stories. I can tell you from long experience that having both fictional and rea life stories in the same group will grow to be very confusing. Megan's would be a great kick-off for the real life group.)

So welcome to Megan!

[jackie seven]

Originally Posted by RG_

Megan was the owner of an old school paddling related website known as "Fiery Fannies," which, while it still had much to do with factual CP, also had a well-deserved reputation for a lot of fun tongue-in-cheek discussion, also. And I can warn you now that Megan often has her tongue implanted firmly into her cheek! So members beware.

Was that the old Fiery Fannies Yahoo group? If so, I used to love that site and wondered what happened to it. It was (by far) the best of its kind I that 've ever seen.

[RG_]

Originally Posted by jackie seven

Was that the old Fiery Fannies Yahoo group? If so, I used to love that site and wondered what happened to it. It was (by far) the best of its kind I that 've ever seen.

Jackie, yes, that's the same one.

It sure was a hoot, wasn't it?

[garyspk]

The "real life" discussion category is a good suggestion. If others agree, we'll try it out.

[garyspk]

So what was Yahoo's explanation for shutting these groups down? Lord knows I've seen many groups on Yahoo that are MUCH more risque and obnoxious than these 2.

[RG_]

Originally Posted by garyspk

So what was Yahoo's explanation for shutting these groups down? Lord knows I've seen many groups on Yahoo that are MUCH more risque and obnoxious than these 2.

Gary, no explanation was ever given by Yahoo!

After the group disappeared I at first thought that perhaps Yahoo was having one of it's periodic problems in which access to the Groups area was down. This had happened a handful of times before in the six-year history of PAS. But then I discovered that the e-mail account (containing *years* worth of correspondance) was also gone. Repeated e-mails to Yahoo yielded no answer. Members even wrote and also received no answer or explanation. There was not even an automated response to say that the groups were deleted for some policy violation. Just silence.

I'm not sure how closely that you followed PAS, if you followed it at all. But I kept the group very clean. Because the purpose of the group was to gather information about factual corporal punishment in American schools, there was no porn or sexual talk allowed. No pictures depicting nudity were allowed. In order to keep the group on-topic and going in the right direction, I didn't even allow personal ad and such.

There were depictions, both photos and videos, of realistic paddling scenes. These were not gratuitous in any way, and were chosen because they gave a realistic presentation of what a paddling might actually be like in a real school. They were always identified as being recreations and not the real thing, and no copyright violations were made. In fact, both the videos and photos came from the commercial Real Spankings site, which had given me blanket permission to use any videos and photos that I wished to, and gave me a pass to their sites so that I would have access to them. The main video for PAS was even made by Real Spankings to depict a real paddling, and showed the process all the way from reporting to the office throuigh getting the paddling, to leaving again. It was nothing more than what would be seen in an actual school setting.

So I have no answer and no clue. The only speculation that I can make is that someone there who had the power to do so just didn't like the site and killed it on political correctness grounds.

Megan can both speak to the description that I gave of PAS above, and offer any words that she has on her own site's demise, which went down a few weeks or months later.

[Megan1975]

As I recall, the two groups went down almost at the same time and possibly even on the same day. Fiery Fannies was discovered to have been deleted about 11:45 AM on April 19th, 2005.

RG is perfectly correct in stating PAS contained nothing objectionable. Indeed, a good deal of the material mirrored items that had appeared in the mainstream media. The pro-corporal punishment stance of PAS, however, is certainly what trampled upon the politically correct sensibilities of some Yahoo employee, and thus it, and FF as well, were destroyed with the push of a button.

Megan

This is my first ever post, so please be kind; I may not be doing it right. I was also a good kid and scared to death of teachers, so I never got paddled. I did however have a girlfriend in 1977 who definitely got her share. We both worked at McD's and I distinctly remember both of us making out in the women's rest room (we were supposed to be cleaning it), and she told me that she had gotten licks that day from a guidance counselor. That was nothing new for her, but that day stood out because the lady usually gave her 3 swats, but increased it to 5 on this occasion for reasons unknown. I remember the reason she got padled (excessive tardies) and she was a tough little girl, so I'm sure she wasn't emotionally wrecked from the experience. But it was noteworthy when Lee even mentioned a paddling having any lasting effect, so I'm sure that's why I remember it--that, and the fact that every spanking memory in my life has been filed and re-lived to the point of photographic recall :-)
I remember she wasn't ready, as she was expecting just 3. The counselor asked her "do you want them slow or fast this time?", and before she could answer, she told me she fired all of them off very rapidly--like a machine gun. She said the woman really tore her tail up. My next memory of that day is moving to the men's room and making out some more while pretending to be cleaning.