.

2000

Germany: another, rather less authentic-looking, caning demonstration in a school museum

Germany: caning demonstration at the school museum in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, 2008, supposedly representing 1875

Germany: caning demonstration at the Bauerhofmuseum in Illerbeuren, Bavaria, 2011

Germany: preparation for punishment in a village school, painting, 19th century

Germany: staged picture of supposed punishment with a carpet-beater, 1957

Germany: famous painting of schoolmaster with cane confronting naughty schoolboys, probably c.1930

Germany: scene of supposed school caning, staged for a play

Germany: old print of a classroom strapping

Germany: boy, 11, pretends to be caned as photo stunt for ceremony of putting school cane in museum, Munich, 1970

Germany: drawing of schoolboys taking revenge with birches on their master on one day a year when tables were turned by tradition, 1867

Kenya: jocular re-enactment of a school caning

Malaysia: demonstration of caning as a warning to new first-year secondary students, 2009

Malaysia: drawing of a secondary school caning with translation of explanatory text

Myanmar (Burma): posed photograph of schoolgirl holding hands out for rulering, 2004

New Zealand: posed press photograph showing young student touching his toes and being caned

Singapore: senior student demonstrates position required for receiving routine caning at Catholic boys' school, 2007

South Africa: photo showing student in school uniform bending over for the cane, pre-1996, presumably posed but positioning is authentic

South Korea: youth members of Democratic Labour Party give a mock caning demonstration as part of their campaign against CP, 2006

Spain: painting by Goya, c.1780, of a pants-down classroom whipping

Uganda: posed scene of a classroom caning

United Kingdom: artist's impression of schoolboy bending over for a classroom slippering, 1960s, new improved version

United Kingdom: a caning in the housemaster's study, being acted out for a stage play, 1937

United Kingdom: "Bottoms Up!", poster for comedy film, 1960

United Kingdom: four mediaeval representations of school CP

United Kingdom: mediaeval woodcut shows schoolroom birching in progress

United Kingdom: Etching showing a schoolroom birching, 1807

United Kingdom: drawing of schoolboy about to be caned in classroom, c.1900

United Kingdom: artist's impression, not necessarily authentic, of a student being birched in front of the school in a traditional private (so-called "public") boys' school, from a rather unreliable book first published in 1941

United Kingdom: silly posed picture of schoolboy pretending to be caned on the hand

United Kingdom: drawing of an Eton Pop-tanning in progress, as practised until about 1970

United Kingdom: drawing in silhouette of traditional English school caning by headmaster

United Kingdom: modern lithograph imagines William Shakespeare about to be birched as a schoolboy, c.1580

United Kingdom: modern painting of imagined English classroom birching in the 16th century

United Kingdom: another imagined English classroom birching in history, wrongly showing punishment over trousers

United Kingdom: photograph of student bending over for a rulering at front of class, but it's all in fun (I think), boys' secondary school, London, 1970

United Kingdom: posed picture of Scottish primary school tawse in use

United States: pretend paddling of senior student at a high school in Arkansas, posed for jocular effect, c.2005

United States: college students pretending to paddle a fellow-student with huge planks, Texas, early 20th century

United States: 19th-century school caning re-enacted for a modern play

United States: pretend paddling at a school museum, Oklahoma

United States: artist's impressions of various modi operandi for paddling students

United States: child receiving over-the-knee paddling with "the board of education", presumably a posed picture, possibly c.1900

United States: senior girl student paddles senior boy student on "student takeover day", high school, Kentucky, 1971

United States: paddling scene from a fictional film set in the 1950s, unusual position adopted

United States: paddling by the Dean of Men, Hardaway High School, Georgia, posed for yearbook, 1968

United States: posed paddling scene, from Georgia high-school yearbook, 1965

United States: posed paddling scene, unknown junior high-school yearbook, 1982

United States: posed paddling scene, unknown high-school yearbook, date unknown

United States: posed paddling scene, unknown high-school yearbook, possibly 1960s

United States: sixth-grade paddling, picture posed for amusement by real teacher, 1965

United States: posed photograph of elementary student being paddled in front of country schoolhouse, allegedly in 1915

United States: posed press photograph of student being paddled, 1987

United States: posed press photograph of schoolgirl clutching bottom as though just paddled, 2004

United States: posed photograph of schoolboy bending over for a switching in the classroom, 1905

 

Real school corporal punishment in progress -

Australia: A schoolboy's caning by his housemaster is secretly captured on camera, 1930s

Barbados: Tardy boys caned on arrival at school (two pictures), 2010

Barbados: A less cropped version of one of the above two pictures, 2010

Botswana: A senior schoolboy receives a caning in class, 2015 (also video clip)

Cameroon: A high-school whipping, 2015

Cameroon: Secondary students stripped and flogged in school yard, 2017

Canada: Sequence of real-life pictures of a teen boy bending over for a paddling at private boarding school, 1974 (also video clips)

China: Punishment with huge martial arts sticks, allegedly at Shaolin martial arts academy, no date

Ecuador: Senior student given the belt (also video clip)

Germany: classroom caning of elementary schoolboy, 1960s (possibly a scene from a film, but might be real)

Ghana: girl student being caned in classroom, c.2002

Ivory Coast: punishment in secondary school yard, 2011 (also video clip)

Jamaica: classroom strapping of girl on hand, undated file picture (possibly posed but might be real)

Japan: Caning of young men at cycle racing training school, c.2007 (also video clips)

Japan: Another caning under way at the cycle racing school on a different occasion

Japan: classroom caning with bamboo sword, 1970s

Japan: several classroom canings, and boys clutching buttocks in anticipation as they wait in line to be caned, 1970s

Japan: thought to be from the same school, but possibly more recent, another picture of a student being caned with a kendo sword

Japan: another schoolboy being caned in front of watching classmates, 1970s

Japan: a more recent picture of a student being caned with a kendo sword, possibly real but could be posed

Japan: punishment under way at a Table Tennis Academy in Tokyo

Japan: student at martial arts academy bending over for punishment with cane, may be posed

Japan: school baseball training scene, possibly involving CP

Kazakhstan: caning of youth at religious school, 2015 (also video clip)

Kenya: schoolgirl being caned at the blackboard as classmates watch, date unknown

Kenya: 10 secondary schoolboys being caned hard across the backside, 2014 (see also video clip)

Kenya: Senior student gets an English-style caning, 2014 (also video clip)

Lebanon: school student being caned on soles of feet, 2014

Liberia: President Taylor caning his own daughter in front of class, 2001

Liberia: Young boy being caned for talking in class, 2010

Malaysia: secondary student receiving the cane in school office while another awaits his turn, 2003 (might be posed, but quite possibly real) (for the real thing captured on film, see video clips)

Malaysia: another boy being caned in the same school office, presumably at the same session as above, 2003

Malaysia: classroom caning, hands on the desk, 2009

Malaysia: classroom caning, hands on the wall, 2012

Malaysia: caning at school entrance for latecomers, 2013

Nigeria: boy and girl being whipped in front of schoolmates, 2010

Nigeria: mass outdoor caning of girls and boys, 2016

Pakistan: boys caned in schoolyard (also video clip)

Pakistan: Cadet college residents caned outdoors (also video clip)

Singapore: secondary student gets two strokes of the cane in front of his class, c.2006 (also video clip)

Singapore: secondary school boy being caned on stage in front of whole school, c.2005 (also video clip)

Singapore: sequence of five pictures showing the caning of a school student on stage, 2008

Singapore: computer-generated artist's impression of the above, several angles

Singapore: schoolboy receives a caning in school corridor, 2007

Singapore: 15-year-old being caned in front of his class ("class caning"), 2007

Singapore: another class caning under way, 2007

South Africa: senior male secondary student undergoing "six of the best" at private school, 2012 (also video clip)

South Africa: boy being caned in elementary classroom, 1999

South Africa: high-school boy being caned, 2006

South Africa: high-school girl being caned, 2016 (also video clip)

South Africa: senior schoolgirls being caned, 2013 (also video clip)

South Africa: secondary students caned at school gate as they arrive late, 2014

South Africa: secondary boy and girl caned on hands in class, 2018

South Africa: unidentified pictures of illegal punishment with plastic ruler (possibly posed but might be real), 2002

South Korea: canings at the school gatehouse for latecomers, Seoul High School, probably c.1960

South Korea: paddling of secondary schoolboys in a corridor, c.2008 (also video clip)

South Korea: push-up posture commonly adopted for corporal punishment

South Korea: mass punishment of boys with a baseball bat

South Korea: schoolboy being caned in classroom on lower posterior and/or back of thighs, 2009

South Korea: senior student adopts the classic Korean position for receiving the cane across seat of trousers, outdoor view

South Korea: high-school boy gets spanked in class, 2003

South Korea: secondary boys being caned in front of their mixed class, two pictures

South Korea: punishment in class with a thick rigid rod, 2009

South Korea: formal caning of a student, two pictures

South Korea: schoolgirls being caned, cellphone captures, 2000s (also video clips)

South Korea: a senior secondary girl being paddled on the seat in class (also video clips)

South Korea: mass punishment of students outside school, not clear whether it includes CP, 2000s

South Korea: numerous school students in sports uniform being whacked on their backsides, c.2007

South Korea: pupils spanked with a ruler for arriving late to school, 2008

Taiwan: junior high school boy being paddled in front of class, 2005 (also video clip)

Taiwan: four teenage boys soundly caned by their swimming coach, 2015 (also video clip)

Tanzania: mass public caning of secondary schoolboys, 2019 (also video clip)

Tanzania: young boy caned by headmistress, 2014 (also video clip)

Tanzania: senior student being caned in classroom, c.2012 (two views)

Thailand: caning of schoolboy in front of class, 2013 (also video clip)

Thailand: schoolboys caned, 2000s (also video clips)

Thailand: schoolgirls caned, 2000s (also video clip)

Thailand: boys caned in the school office across the seat of their shorts, 2000s

Thailand: mass caning of boy scouts, 2010

Thailand: school student being caned across his bottom by lady teacher, no date

Thailand: a classroom caning in progress, 2009

Thailand: flexible rattan wielded at front of class by lady teacher, no date

Thailand: caning of novice monk at Buddhist temple school, 2014 (also video clip)

Tonga: caning by prefects, 2011 (also video clips)

Uganda: junior boys queueing up to receive a caning, c.2005

Uganda: senior girl student being caned in presence of parents, 2003

Uganda: girls being caned outside school for lateness, 2009

United Kingdom: housemaster caning a boy at Lord Wandsworth College, Hampshire, c.1970

United Kingdom: Christian Brother wielding the strap at a Roman Catholic grammar school, date unknown

United Kingdom: prefect's caning at a boys' boarding school, 1960s

United Kingdom: "sponsored canings" at comprehensive school open day, c.1979 (two pictures)

United States: a high-school senior gets his last paddling before graduating, Arkansas, c.2007

United States: high-school student in North Carolina receiving birthday spanking in class, 2014 (also video clip)

United States (probably): over-the-knee switching at front of class, early 20th century(?)

United States: boy being paddled at a New Orleans school, 2013 (also video clip)

United States: high school footballer being paddled for poor grades while teammates watch, 2001

United States: paddle swat being delivered to unseen Louisiana school student, c.2006 (also video clip)

United States: recent paddlings of high-school students (also video clips)

United States: elementary student being paddled in school cafeteria, 2001

United States: whacking with a stick on school stage, possibly c.1910, probably only a "birthday spanking"

United States: high-school boys being paddled in Butler, Pennsylvania, 1978 (also video clip)

United States: paddling of high-school boy, Texas, 1977

United States: improper paddling at Tennessee high school, 2009 (also video clip)

United States (possibly): female student supposedly receives ruler over knuckles, probably a posed picture, date and purpose unknown

Vietnam: schoolboy receives a caning at front of class, 2007 (also video clip)

Zimbabwe: caning of schoolboys (also video clip)

Unidentified African country: schoolboy caned in front of class by his lady teacher, date unknown

Unidentified African country: secondary student receives "six of the best" in front of class (also video clip)

Unidentified Middle Eastern country: boy in his late teens bending over for the strap (also video clip)

 

Cartoons of school corporal punishment -

Canada: cartoon of school strap and frightened student, 2003

India: cartoon of bad-tempered schoolmaster brandishing cane at kids, 2003

Kenya: cartoon of schoolboy being caned in front of class, 1999

India: cartoon of young schoolboys getting a pants-down rulering from angry schoolmarm, 2009

Malaysia: cartoon by "Lat" on controversy over school discipline, 2000

New Zealand: 2 cartoons on Rongotai College "video caning" controversy, 1981

Uganda: Cartoon of girl being caned at front of class, 2003

United Kingdom: A Greek Tragedy.

poor quality photo)

South Korea: boarding-school girls show bruised backsides after mass punishment, 2006

South Korea: schoolboys show results of being caned on back of thighs, 2000s

South Korea: secondary schoolboys show effects of caning on seat, 2011

South Korea: students show "tramline" effects of recent posterial caning, c.2011

Taiwan: a schoolboy's bruised buttocks after being spanked with baseball bat, 2009

Taiwan: a high-school boy's buttocks showing "tramline" weals after an accurate formal caning, 2015

Thailand: buttocks of 12-year-old boy after 10 strokes of the school cane, 2018

United Kingdom: buttocks of Barry Tavner, 13, after headmaster's caning, 1987

United States: bruised right buttock of unidentified schoolboy said to be result of 1990s paddling

United States: slightly reddened buttock of Kimberley Garza's unnamed 13-year-old son as a result of paddling by gym teacher, 2004

United States: right buttock of Jay Walden, 15, after receiving 3-swat paddling at Texas school, 2007

United States: part of right buttock of Julie Halcomb's unnamed 17-year-old son after paddling at Texas high school, 2008

United States: part of buttock of Tyler Anastopoulos, 16, after receiving 3-swat paddling at Texas high school, 2011

United States: buttocks of a 17-year old high-school athlete just after expert paddling by football coach, Texas, 2013

 

Cartoons of domestic corporal punishment -

Canada: "The Supreme Court ...

a real big carrot!”

“A Carrot?” the ranger struggled not to laugh “Why did he do that?”

“Dunno … guess he was a pervert or something, then his brother stuffed nettles and poison oak up ….”

“huh?

you have had an eventful day, haven’t you Jordan!” relied Dr Schultz with a raised eyebrow “We had better take a look at it!

Jordan closed his eyes tight and gritted his teeth with embarrassment, he couldn’t believe that three men were actually discussing the state of his sore anus …… and studying it with a magnifying glass.

“Could that be serious Doctor?” asked Martin, struggling to sound businesslike

“I am afraid it could be!” replied the Doctor with a grim expression on his face “the combination of an electrical burn and a hornet sting could have unstable results!” he put down the magnifying glass and removed his rubber gloves “I will prescribe a special cream, which have to be applied twice a day… I am afraid it will sting a little bit Jordan, but that is because it is working!”

“uh …okay …Doc” the unhappy Jordan hissed though a scowl

“and, most important” added the Doctor “the whole area must be exposed to fresh air at all times!”

“Uh ….What ….?” asked Jordan uncomprehendingly.

“No pants, jeans or underwear should be worn for the next four weeks at least … probably up to six weeks depending on the speed of recovery … so no clothing from the waist down!”

“WHAT?” cried Jordan, as the Doctors words sunk in

“You gotta stay bare butt for six weeks Sport!” replied the Ranger helpfully!

the ever popular woodshed", cartoon by Corrigan on Supreme Court ruling on spanking, 2004

Canada: "Don't forget to keep it transitory and trifling!", cartoon by Clement on Supreme Court ruling on spanking, 2004

Canada: "La Cour suprème permet la fessée, mais trouve déraisonable de frapper un enfant à la tète!", cartoon by Garnotte on Supreme Court ruling on spanking, 2004

France: Father spanks toddler, 1902

Russia: Cartoon of "between the knees" belting

Singapore: "I can't join the sit down strike", cartoon of parental caning, 1956

United Kingdom: Dennis the Menace gets the slipper again, frame from strip in The Beano

United Kingdom: cartoon of mother spanking boy, 2004

United Kingdom: mother attracts disapproval by spanking son in park, 1951

United Kingdom: "Go to bed or the Harry Potter book gets it", cartoon by Matt, 2004

United Kingdom: Spanking camera, cartoon by David Austin, 2004

United Kingdom: "How will the coalition cope with corporal punishment?", cartoon by Ros Asquith, 2012

United States: "Famous Switch-hitters", cartoon on Adrian Peterson controversy by Jeff Darcy, 2014

United States: cartoon of mother spanking boy, 2000

United States: cartoon of parentally spanked brat, 2000

United States (probably): cartoon of multiple domestic whipping, possibly c.1900

United States (probably): old cartoon of boy emerging in pain from a spanking, date unknown

United States: father spanks boy, Shinola advert, 1948

United States: father spanks boy, cartoon by Marty Lowe, 1992

United States: 'The Boondocks' comic strip on threat of paternal strapping, by Aaron McGruder, 2004

United States: another 'The Boondocks' episode, same subject, 2004

United States: 'Curtis' comic strip on parental spanking, by Ray Billingsley, 2006

United States: cartoon illustrating article on "The Economics of Spanking", 2002

United States: "Getting to the Seat of the Matter", cartoon shows over-the-knee spanking, c.1958

United States: "A good spanking has helped many a teen-ager", 1961

 

Recipients of domestic corporal punishment -

Barnett, Amber, now 21, pictured with a signboard reading "Thank you for spanking me Dad", USA, 2008

Chia Ying, 8, caned by father for running away from home, Singapore, 2005

"Church of God" family members, Canada, 2001

Cobble, Judah, 13, pictured with his father, who spanked him with belt, USA, 1999

Kindle, Sergio, 18, college football star, paddled by father, USA, 2006

Jones, Lorraine, 16, whipped by her mother (also pictured), USA, 1928

Morgan (aka Plonka), William and Douglas, brothers aged 9 and 10 respectively, after running away from home, arriving back for promised parental spanking, 1974

Salvati, Bobby, 15, shown with his father Joey, who recently paddled him, and holding the paddle, USA, 2002

SikHanyiso, Princess, 17, daughter of Swazi king, whipped by palace official, pictured in traditional garb for annual ceremonial dance of "maidens", Swaziland, 2005

SikHanyiso, Princess, another picture, in Western dress, 2005

Sons of Acting Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, aged 10, 12 and 13, shown with their father, who occasionally spanks them, Singapore, 2004

Tan Chia Khee, Jeremy, 10, caned by father for running away from home, Singapore, 2005

Walker, Calvin, 17, high-school footballer, brother of Sergio Kindle (q.v.), paddled by father, USA, 2006

 

Effects of domestic corporal punishment -

8-year-old shows red marks on his back after belting by father, USA, 2007

 

Dummy demonstrations or artists' impressions of domestic corporal punishment -

Australia: posed photograph of young boy's over-the-knee spanking by father, possibly 1960s

Canada: father paddles young boy with what might be a hair brush, 2003 (also video clip)

France: "La Fessée", propaganda postcard, First World War

Indonesia: posed photo of unlikely formal parental whipping, book cover, c.2010

Romania: Church fresco showing the Devil administering an over-the-knee spanking

Russia: 19th-century painting of a bourgeois domestic birching

United States: two boys spanked by Mom for wrecking the fence, old posed picture

United States: a spanking for young John, watched by sister and big brother, old jocular posed picture

United States: young boy gets spanked over father's knee, c.1960s, possibly a scene from a film

United States?: posed picture of small boy bending over to be paddled with a table-tennis bat, date unknown

United States: posed press photograph of teen boy's over-the-knee spanking by father, 1997

United States: a father paddles his son, 1897

United States: a mother does the same, 1897

United States (probably): man paddles small boy, jocular posed picture artificially coloured, possibly c.1900

United States (probably): over-the-knee spanking, posed stereoscopic picture, possibly c.1900

United States: boy getting spanked by mother, c.1896

United States: boy is spanked by father, probably posed, c.2005

United States: small boy receives over-the-knee spanking, posed picture, possibly 1960s

United States: demonstration by Rev.

Arthur Allen Jnr of whipping of 14-year-old boy in church, 2002

 

Implements and equipment used -

Unspecified country in North Africa, Schoolboys with paddles with which they are allegedly spanked, 2000s

Mythical spanking machines as imagined by various artists, 19th and 20th centuries

Australia, prison birch in its box, no date

Australia, leather protective belt for flogging, no date

Australia, leather lash used on juveniles, c.1870

Australia, leather lash for the punishment of boys at Point Puer, c.1840

Australia, another leather lash, 1850s

Australia, timber whipping stool for boys, c.1870

Australia, cat-o'-nine-tails, date unknown

Australia, another cat-o'-nine-tails, early 19th century

Australia, flogging triangle at parade ground, Old Sydney Town, possibly early 19th century

Australia, flogging frame and implements on display in museum, date unknown

Australia, same flogging frame and implements as above, different views

Australia, different flogging frame in another museum (two different views)

Australia, cane borrowed from police barracks for court-ordered police-supervised caning of two teen boys, 1956

Australia, cane being waved by teacher at kids, 1970s

Australia, rattan cane in school museum, Victoria, 20th century

Austria, whipping bench, date unknown

Austria, another whipping bench

Austrian-Hungarian Empire, whipping bench (three views)

Austrian-Hungarian Empire, another whipping bench

Brunei, adult and juvenile judicial punishment canes

Canada, big paddle said to be in daily use at St John's School, tough boarding school for boys in Alberta, 2002

Canada, leather strap used for prison "paddlings", 1960s

Canada, Ontario prison strap

Canada, straps and cats used in prison, displayed in a museum

Canada, paddling table over which prisoners were bent to receive posterial corporal punishment in federal penitentiary, 1903 to 1968

Canada, much clearer picture of the paddling table over which prisoners were bent to receive judicial punishment in federal penitentiary, 1903 to 1968

Canada, a different paddling table, in New Brunswick

Canada, "the machine" into which prisoners were secured for paddling in Ontario provincial institutions, 1950s (poor-quality photograph)

Canada, "the machine" into which prisoners were secured for paddling in Ontario provincial institutions, 1950s (clear computer-generated b/w drawing from the photograph)

Canada, "the machine" into which prisoners were secured for paddling in Ontario provincial institutions, 1950s (artist's impression in colour)

Canada, whipping frame and cat-o-nine-tails (applied to the upper back) sometimes used in judicial CP sentences instead of the leather paddle - picture from a museum, source of caption unknown, but the facts appear to be correct

Canada, school paddle signed by recipients, from a high school in Vancouver, c.1950s

Canada, school strap in a museum in Saskatchewan

Canada, typical school straps

Canada, school strap for sale in illustrated advertisement, 1919

Canada, posed picture of a school strapping with alleged extract from punishment book, 1978

Canada, boards used to paddle students in illicit high school hazing, 2003

Canada, whipping post, c.1700

Canada, whipping frame, Nova Scotia, c.1850

China, "Stocks for punishment beatings", with paddles, c.1895

Denmark, school cane in museum (also video clip)

Germany, School cane, allegedly the last in use in Bavaria, newly consigned to museum, 1970

Germany, Prügelbock (whipping trestle) in a prison in Lower Saxony, used until 1913

Germany, Prügelbock (whipping trestle) in a prison in Thuringia, used until 1848 (two views)

Germany, Prügelbock (whipping trestle) in a museum in Saxony-Anhalt, 16th century

Germany, whipping bench, cane and birch in prison museum, possibly 19th century

Germany, multi-tailed whip in poor condition, probably used on prisoners in occupied Norway, 1940-45

Ghana, bulk supply of canes allegedly for use in schools

Ghana, bundles of school canes on sale in a bookshop, 2013

Hong Kong, caning trestles and cane on display in prison museum

Hong Kong, close-up of padded bar on punishment trestle, with cane at prison museum

Hong Kong, cat-o'nine-tails and punishment register on display at prison exhibition

Hong Kong, reformatory caning horse in prison museum

Hong Kong, clearer view of the reformatory horse

Hong Kong, gauges for verifying correct thickness of canes

India, flogging frames, Andaman Islands

Isle of Man, judicial birch in police officer's hand

Isle of Man, policeman with judicial birch

Isle of Man, another view of the judicial birch

Isle of Man, town birch and birching stool at museum in Peel

Isle of Man, birches standing in a bucket, photo by Lord Snowdon

Jamaica, Strap at Charlie Smith High School being "buried" in ceremony, although CP was not being abolished altogether, 2006

Japan, bamboo sword used for canings at cram school, 1970s

Korea, flogging bench at Seoul Folk Village Museum (presumably a modern reconstruction)

Korea, a different design of flogging bench

Korea, huge flogging paddle in a museum

Korea, more flogging paddles

Malaysia, secondary school discipline master with his cane

Malaysia, domestic or school canes on sale in local store, 2016

Malaysia, A-frame used for judicial caning

Malaysia, judicial cane as displayed in prison exhibition

Malaysia, range of canes on display at another prison exhibition, 2005

Malaysia, a closer view of the rack of canes on display at prison exhibition, 2005

Malaysia, array of canes in close-up in a different display, c.2005

New Zealand, primary school strap, date unknown

Philippines, wooden paddles prepared by police and army for spanking election-law offenders, 2018

Singapore, judicial/prison caning trestle, stills from government video

Singapore, judicial punishment canes on sale in USA, 1994

Singapore, domestic punishment cane for parental use

Singapore, parental punishment canes after use on 9-year-old boy

Singapore, parental punishment cane (incorrectly used to illustrate an article about school caning), 2004

South Africa, cat-o'-nine-tails as formerly used for judicial floggings, 1950s

South Africa, juvenile caning trestle and canes, 1994

Tanzania, school teacher with cane, 2004

Thailand, rattan whips used in prison up to 1896

Uganda, school prefect holding switch, 2009

United Arab Emirates, a whip, which may or may not be the real thing, used to illustrate a press article about changes in whipping policy, 2007

United Kingdom, three photos of Wandsworth Prison flogging/birching frame being tested, c.1930

United Kingdom, Scottish whipping table for young delinquents, 1909

United Kingdom, birch and cat-o-nine-tails used in Northern Ireland

United Kingdom, birching table at Inveraray Jail, Scotland

United Kingdom, another Scottish juvenile birching table in another museum

United Kingdom, another view of the above

United Kingdom, birching block, with birches used for punishment at Eton College until 1964, seen in the school's museum

United Kingdom, Eton birching block, with birches, another view of museum exhibit

United Kingdom, Eton birching block, two views, photographed in 1939

United Kingdom, more pictures of Eton birching blocks in situ, early 20th century

United Kingdom, canes hanging on wall of library at Eton College, probably 1940s or 1950s

United Kingdom, Eton Head Master's Room with birching block and birch, late 19th century view

United Kingdom, Eton Lower School birching block, pictured in 1948

United Kingdom, Eton Lower School room, possibly c.

Our handsome young hero’s only wish was to escape from the prying eyes and hide himself “We will have to use the stairs!” he gasped, turning away from the stubbornly un-opening elevator door and hurrying towards the open staircase at the far end of the lobby.

The ranger sauntered casually after him “That sure is a perty sight!” he drawled watching Jordan’s bare bottom juggling up and down as he hurried.

Jordan literally bounded up the stairs, and, to his relief was soon out of view of the watching crowd.

1900

Bolivia: strikebreaking driver being unofficially whipped by his colleagues, 2005

Bolivia: striking bus drivers spank a scab colleague, 2005

Bolivia: another strikebreaking driver is whipped in the street, 2006

Botswana: Tebogo Malete, 27, receiving five strokes of the cane on his bare seat at traditional court, for housebreaking, 2005

Botswana: Two teen boys receiving four lashes each at customary court, for stealing phone, 2009

China: "Whipping a lawbreaker", c.1900

China: Judicial paddling, pre-1912

China: bare-bottom caning in Wei Hai Wei, early 20th century

China: another bare-bottom punishment under way, early 20th century

Colombia: tribal whipping on back of legs, 2012 (also video clip)

Congo: native flogging, c.1900

Egypt: public flogging of profiteering baker, 1950s

Egypt: clearer version of the above

Ghana: unofficial community caning of young man, 2016 (also video clip)

India: public flogging, 1919

India: young man spanked in the street by policewoman, 2015

Indonesia: public caning under Dutch colonial rule, c.1890

Indonesia (Aceh): man and woman caned together, 2007 (also video clip)

Indonesia (Aceh): public caning of man for gambling, 2005

Indonesia (Aceh): another picture of the same event, 2005

Indonesia (Aceh): another public caning for gambling, 2005

Indonesia (Aceh): public caning of man for drinking alcohol, 2006

Indonesia (Aceh): public caning of young woman for illicit sex, 2006

Indonesia (Aceh): woman being publicly caned, 2015

Indonesia (Aceh): woman being publicly caned, 2016

Indonesia (Aceh): more photographs of women being caned

Indonesia (Aceh): one of two men receiving the first caning for homosexuality, in front of huge crowd, 2017

Indonesia (Maluku): unofficial public whipping (also video clip)

Iran (known at the time as Persia): public flogging of criminal, c.1910

Iran (known at the time as Persia): caning the soles of the feet (falaka or bastinado), date unknown

Iran (known at the time as Persia): another old photo of falaka caning

Iran: serial murderer and rapist being given 100 lashes in public before being executed, 2005

Iran: public flogging of youth in Tehran square, 2001

Iran: public flogging of man in Tehran square, 1983

Iran: another public flogging, 2007

Iran: another public flogging, date unknown (also video clip)

Iran: public flogging in Sabzevar, 2013

Iran: public flogging, 2014

Kenya: unofficial flogging of woman by plain-clothes policeman, 2008

Kenya: woman publicly caned for adultery, 2015 (also video clip)

Korea: photographs from c.1900 of public floggings

Korea: clearer view of detail from one of the above

Korea: another public flogging, probably also c.1900s

Libya: public flogging, 2013 (also video clip)

Malaysia: caning of criminal in prison, may be a posed reconstruction but could well be real, c.1980s (for the real thing on film, see video clips)

Malaysia: two pictures of another prison caning under way

Malaysia: Syariah (religious) symbolic caning of woman, 2010 (also video clip)

Maldives: paddling of Moslem woman, 2015

Maldives: paddling of young woman, 2013 (also video clip)

Myanmar: caning of illegal loggers in a jungle, 2015 (also video clip)

Namibia (or possibly Tanzania), when they were both part of German Africa: judicial pants-down strapping in progress, c.1910

Namibia (or possibly Tanzania): clearer version of the above picture

Nigeria: Mohammed Abubakar, 13, pictured being publicly flogged, 2002

Nigeria: Sanusi Isiyaka, 23, pictured being publicly flogged, 2002

Nigeria: man being publicly caned for sex with unmarried woman, 2013

Nigeria: man being caned at local court for defiling a girl, 2013 (also video clip)

Pakistan: Muhammed Shah, 40, pictured being publicly caned, Karachi, 1978

Pakistan: another public flogging under way, Rawalpindi, 1979

Pakistan: public caning in Karachi, c.1980, high-quality colour photo

Pakistan: sequence of photographs of a public caning in sports stadium, 1970s

Pakistan: various photographs of miscellaneous public canings, c.1980

Pakistan: two views of Mohammad Sabir, 27, being publicly caned, Rawalpindi, 1978

Pakistan: public flogging by semi-unofficial court in tribal area, 1992

Pakistan: caning in a public place over a chair, 1987

Pakistan: flogging by Punjab police, 1998

Pakistan: Punjab police administer flogging with the "patta" (leather paddle), c.2010

Pakistan: woman receives unofficial Taliban flogging on the ground, Swat Valley, 2009 (also video clip)

Pakistan: another Taliban public flogging in Swat, 2008

Pakistan: more Taliban flogging, 2009

Papua New Guinea (at the time just New Guinea): floggings of German civilians by Australian troops at Rabaul, 1914

Peru: Young man being whipped by quasi-official local court, 2016

Peru: Another local citizens' whipping, 2019

Russia: Cossack flogging, date and other details unknown

Russia (Chechnya): caning by breakaway Moslem regime, 1996

Russia (Chechnya): another caning, 1990s

Russia (Chechnya): another caning, 1996

Russia: bastinado in the Caucasus, possibly c.1900s

Saudi Arabia: caning in street outside ad hoc court during annual pilgrimage, Makkah, c.2005

Saudi Arabia: public caning in progress, Riyadh, 1970s

Saudi Arabia: public caning in a town square, 1970s

Singapore: scenes in prison caning room during punishment session

South Africa: two small pictures of unofficial (kangaroo court) whippings, 1996 and 2004

Somalia: Inept public flogging of two youths, 2009 (also video clip)

Somalia: Isaaq, Jeylani, 45, pictured being publicly flogged, 2006

Somalia: Omar, Mohamed, 58, pictured being publicly flogged, 2006

Somalia: Woman pictured being publicly flogged, 2006

Somalia: Shogow, Mohamed, 19, pictured being publicly flogged, 2006

Sudan: unnamed woman pictured being publicly flogged in the street, 2010 (also video clip)

Uganda: woman publicly caned, 2012 (also video clip)

Uganda: on-the-spot caning of man by local court, 2004

Uganda: on-the-spot caning of man by local court, 2005

United Kingdom: prison flogging with cat-o'-nine-tails, c.1910

United States: flogging in Alaska (Klondike gold rush), 1896

United States: pictures of floggings in Delaware, 1870-1935

United States: painting of a Delaware prison yard flogging, 1896

United States: public whipping at the whipping post in Delaware, early 20th century

United States: juvenile delinquent being spanked by police on instructions of Mayor, New Jersey, 1920

United States: old photo of prison or judicial flogging, date and source unknown

United States: wife-beater being whipped in Baltimore jail, 1931

United States: wife-beater being whipped in Baltimore jail, 1938

United States: wife-beater being whipped in Baltimore jail, early 20th century

United States: four youths being lashed in Chicago courtroom, 1936

United States: 16-year-old spanked by mother on the order of the court, 1938

United States: police station paddling of juvenile delinquent in Ohio (3 pictures), c.2003

United States: police station paddling of three young teens in California, 1950

Vietnam: a thief sentenced to a whipping, c.1900

Zimbabwe (at the time Rhodesia): preparations for caning, 1970s

 

Prison/institutional/military/slave corporal punishment in progress -

Australia (and other allied forces): military flogging in "Dunsterforce", 1918 (two pictures)

Cuba: whipping of slave, 1868

Ghana: caning of soldiers, no date

India: army cadet punished with a hockey stick, no date (also video clip)

Indonesia: prison caning, c.1900

Indonesia: prison whipping, c.1900

Iran: boy being caned on the soles of his feet in workshop, c.1888

Jamaica: boy being caned on hand in reformatory, 2005

Myanmar (Burma): reformatory caning in yard, date unknown

Nepal: Gurkha trainees lightly caned en masse, 2016 (also video clip)

Poland: Polish soldiers flogging a peasant in Belarus, 1920

Russia: prison flogging with the plet, 1890 (two views)

Russia: prison official holding a plet, 1891

Russia: another flogging with the plet, c.1900

Singapore: military detainee receiving a caning in the army barracks

South Africa: an African flogged at the wagon wheel, Boer War, c.1900

South Korea: mass caning of soldiers, no date

South Korea: recruit caned by military police, no date

South Korea: trousers-down caning for two soldiers, possibly real but could be a scene from a fictional film

South Korea: pants-down army paddlings, no date

Sri Lanka: female army recruits in training are encouraged with stick, 2013 (also video clip)

Thailand: young soldiers caned in front of their peers, c.2012 (also video clip)

Thailand: army caning, c.2012

Uganda: prison escapee being caned upon recapture, 2006

United Kingdom: army lad gets an unofficial slippering, c.2007 (also video clip)

United States: prison strapping, Colorado, c.1900

 

Illicit or miscellaneous corporal punishment in progress -

Canada: Store owner spanking failed robber, 2012 (also video clip)

Chile: Pants-down whipping for teen thieves, 2014 (also video clip)

China: China bank employees spanked in front of colleagues, 2016 (also video clip)

China: Boss spanks office worker, 2022 (also video clip)

Peru: Youth being strapped by his father over his shorts, apparently under police supervision, 2018 (also video clip)

Russia: Teen weightlifters strapped for smoking, 2013 (also video clip)

Russia: Soldiers bare their buttocks for a belting (jocular), c.2014

Sweden: Goalkeeper of national football team bending over with shorts down for punishment by target practice, 2012

Ukraine: Public flogging of looter, 2022 (also video clip)

United States: Jocular over-the-knee paddling by fraternity house mother, Alabama, 1949

United States: Paddling at Wake Forest University, NC, 1943

United States: Fraternity paddling, Vanderbilt University, 1937

United States: Fraternity paddling, Texas A & M University, 1919

United States: Fraternity paddling, Pomona College, Calif., c.1940

United States: Pants-down fraternity paddling, apparently in the present day, source unknown

United States: "Corps of cadets" paddling, Texas A & M University, 1982

United States: Paddling, Alpha Sigma Delta fraternity, unknown college, possibly 1920s or 1930s

United States: Mass paddling, unknown college, possibly 1940s or 1950s

United States: "Assume the Angle", another vintage college paddling picture

United States: Disciplinary swats at car club, 1970s

United States: Spanking of man who allegedly slept with underage girl, 2012 (also video clip)

 

Effects of judicial corporal punishment -

Botswana: Weals on buttocks after judicial caning, 2013

Botswana: Small picture showing weals on buttocks of illegally caned woman aged 24, 2013

Brunei: school students look at picture supposedly showing the results of a judicial caning, c.2000

Guatemala: scars on back after whipping with peach tree branches, 2006

India: bruised buttocks following police strapping, 2011

Indonesia: scars on back being treated immediately after flogging, 2006

Iran: weals on back after flogging, 2006

Iran: weals on back and legs after flogging, 2007

Iran: vertical weals on back after lengthwise flogging, 2007

Isle of Man: weals partly visible on back of youths' thighs, a few days after receiving a heavy birching, 1965

Jersey: weals on teen boy's groin, a few days after inept application of birch, 1964

Malaysia: bleeding buttocks, evidently immediately after caning

Malaysia: bloody, mashed-up buttocks after very heavy caning (WARNING: extremely graphic picture, not for the squeamish)

Malaysia: wealed buttocks during and immediately after caning, still pictures taken from genuine video of judicial canings

Malaysia: several pictures of various different caned buttocks, on show at prison exhibition, 2005

Malaysia: closer view of picture of caned buttocks at prison exhibition

Malaysia: scarred buttocks after judicial caning, date unknown

Malaysia: two more photographs of weals caused by caning

Malaysia: another photograph of a detainee's recently wealed posterior

Singapore: scarred buttocks some time after caning (several different pictures)

Singapore: former drug-trafficker shows old caning scar

Singapore: bleeding buttocks immediately after caning (two different pictures)

Singapore: buttocks of 20-year-old Dickson Tan, 12 months after he received 8 strokes of the cane in 2007

South Africa: marks on buttocks and legs after lashes with sjambok administered by people's court, 1998

Thailand: two youths show cane weals and bruises on their buttocks, claiming to have been illegally whipped by police

Zimbabwe: bruised buttocks after illicit paddling of regime opponent, 2000

 

Dummy demonstrations or artists' impressions of judicial corporal punishment -

Country unknown: drawing of a juvenile judicial caning

Australia: modern re-enactment of early 19th-century flogging

Australia: another flogging re-enactment

Brunei: officials demonstrate judicial caning on dummy, 1998

Brunei: another judicial caning demonstration, c.2000

Brunei: yet another one, 2003

Brunei: and another, 2004

Brunei: and another, 2004, this time with members of the public invited to try their hand

Brunei: and another, 2005

Brunei: and another, 2012

Brunei: another dummy demonstration at the prison, 2008

China: drawing of bare-bottom caning in imperial court, possibly Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)

China: paddling of a criminal, 19th century

China: painting of public caning, 19th century

China: undated painting of a pants-down judicial caning

China: two drawings of judicial paddlings

Congo: painting of flogging, 1884

France: drawing of unofficial military slippering, c.1800

Germany: old print of prison flogging, possibly 18th century

Iran (known at the time as Persia): 1872 print of foot-caning scene (falaka or bastinado)

Ireland: dummy of flogging in Cork jail

Jamaica: scenes from filmed reconstruction of prison-yard judicial flogging with tamarind switch, 1960s

Japan: diagram of judicial flogging, Edo period

Korea: modern re-enactment by museum visitors of ancient flogging punishment

Korea: modern re-enactment of public flogging (4 views)

Korea: tableau representing ancient flogging

Korea: another flogging re-enactment, in period costume, as an animation

Korea: another tableau illustrating flogging in miniature

Korea: two drawings of bare-bottom judicial floggings

Korea: four paintings or engravings depicting judicial caning or paddling

Malaysia: official photograph taken from filmed reconstruction of judicial caning

Malaysia: stills from filmed reconstruction of judicial caning, 1990s

Malaysia: pictures from Pudu Prison exhibition, including more stills from a different filmed reconstruction, 1997

Malaysia: caning demonstration at prison exhibition, 1997

Malaysia: caning demonstration using dummy, 1999

Malaysia: another caning demonstration on a dummy, 2004

Malaysia: a different picture of the above event, 2004

Malaysia: yet another dummy demonstration, c.2005

Malaysia: and another one, 2005

Malaysia: graphic showing juvenile judicial caning under way in open court, 2014

Malaysia: series of stills in which a prison officer demonstrates the difference between caning under Syariah law and caning under criminal code, 2005

Malaysia: graphic showing the procedure for Syariah caning of woman, 2009

Malaysia: another diagram illustrating the Syariah caning of woman, 2009

Malaysia: yet another illustration of the modus operandi for caning women, 2009

Nigeria: bailiff re-enacts courtroom lashing, 2014

Russia: drawing of flogging, 17th century

Russia: a female serf is birched, c.1700

Russia: 1887 print of a Cossack whipping

Russia: 19th-century police station birching, as imagined by a 20th-century painter

Russia: "Preparation for flogging", artist's impression, early 20th century

Russia: Judicial birching of a peasant, painting, early 20th century

Singapore: official (inaccurate) diagram of caning procedure, 1994

Singapore: another diagram, 2015

Singapore: Asiaweek diagram of caning procedure, 1994

Singapore: posed picture on book cover purportedly reconstructing caning of Michael Fay (inaccurate), 1994

Singapore: teenagers watch prison officer demonstrating caning on dummy, 1995

Singapore: prison officer demonstrating caning on dummy, 1994

Singapore: computer-generated representation of caning under way in prison

United Kingdom: mediaeval birching, woodcut, 1563

United Kingdom: inaccurate re-enactment of Scottish juvenile birching

United Kingdom: staged reconstruction of prison flogging, from an unusually accurate film, 1948

United Kingdom: prison flogging, 1958, probably a posed scene from a film

United Kingdom: inaccurate drawing of juvenile birching, 19th century

United Kingdom: drawing of police administering birching to a boy as ordered by magistrates court, pre-1948

United States: artist's coloured drawing of courtroom spanking of teens in Indiana, 1962

United States: staged reconstruction of the above (also video clip)

United States: modern artist's impression of early colonial flogging in Carolina, c.1700

Vietnam: theatrical sketch representing a judicial caning before a magistrate, possibly c.1900

 

Dummy demonstrations or artists' impressions of prison, military, reformatory or slave corporal punishment -

Australia: Crude drawing of a prison flogging, 1836

Austrian Empire: Frieze on a building in Prague showing young Czech soldier being caned by Austrian officer, c.1900

Brazil: public whipping of a slave, engraving, 1830s

Brazil: whipping a slave, drawing, 1825

Canada: artist's impression of reformatory strapping, 1960

Canada: drawing of a flogging in Montreal Gaol, 1875

China (Tibet): Tableau or model showing ancient flogging punishment

India: dummy of flogging at cellular jail, Andaman Islands

India: two more views of the same

Japan: drawings of caning in Indonesia wartime camps, 1945

Russia: artist's impression of a military flogging, c.1700

Singapore: demonstration of caning at Boys' Town, a home for troubled teenagers, 2015

Sweden: cartoon of a military flogging, c.1830

Sweden: caning of soldiers, cartoon, c.1820

United Kingdom: artist's impression of a senior Approved School (reformatory) inmate being officially caned, c.1960s

United Kingdom: artist's impression of flogging of junior seaman over the bare breech on board ship, c.1850

United Kingdom: computer-generated impression of flogging of junior seaman over the bare breech on board ship, c.1820 (view from 3 different angles)

United Kingdom: artist's impression of flogging of adult naval rating with a cat-o'-nine-tails on board ship, c.1850

United Kingdom: another drawing of a traditional 19th-century or earlier naval flogging

United Kingdom: painting of a 19th-century naval flogging

United Kingdom: artist's impression of informal flogging of a sailor with the rope's end on board ship, 19th century

United Kingdom: drawing of a formal caning on board a Royal Navy training ship, c.1950

United Kingdom: artist's impression of the formal caning of a boy seaman on board ship, 1906

United Kingdom: "Flogging in the New Militia", anti-militia propaganda poster, 1852

United Kingdom: artist's impression of British Army ceremonial flogging, 18th century

United Kingdom: artist's impression of British Army caning in Burmese jungle, 1943

United States: drawing of "spanking" in Civil War prison camp, 1864

United States: artist's impression of a prison paddling, 1912

United States: prison warden demonstrates flogging with strap, Colorado, 1951

United States: staged photo of flogging with strap, Colorado, no date

 

Dummy demonstrations or artists' impressions of school corporal punishment -

Country unknown: pretend caning at a school museum

Country unknown: another pretend caning at a school museum

Canada: posed photograph of child being strapped on the hand

Denmark: mediaeval drawing of school students with schoolmaster holding birch

France: Drawing of a classroom spanking, 1880s

Germany: posed photograph of student bending over for pretend caning demonstration in a school museum, c.

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