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intaglio

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11. If people want to indulge in child abuse you should also mention the tawse

Mon Sep 15, 2014, 05:24 PM

Sep 2014

Or perhaps such abusers should be like Michael and Debi Pearl using a length of plumbing line which has the added bonus that you can use it to herd cattle for milking afterwards. Teachers used to favour 3 ft rulers at one time or a simple 12 inch one repeatedly across the palms or knuckles but perhaps nothing really beats birching either with a single twig or with a soaked bundle of withies.

These barbarities should be abandoned no matter what tradition says.

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A paddle or a switch? [View all] kentuck Sep 2014 OP

My mother had a paddle notadmblnd Sep 2014 #1

I got the belt as a kid... WestCoastLib Sep 2014 #2

Teachers,of.all.people, elleng Sep 2014 #3

I remember paddling in the schools as recently as the mid-1980s. femmocrat Sep 2014 #5

Kids soon found that little switches left bigger welts Warpy Sep 2014 #4

what evidence do you have that switches and paddles are utilized in a less angry way cali Sep 2014 #6

No. I think violence is wrong in all forms. kentuck Sep 2014 #7

I just turned 60. Puglover Sep 2014 #8

Like those are the only choices? SheilaT Sep 2014 #9

There are enough studies available... Wait Wut Sep 2014 #10

If people want to indulge in child abuse you should also mention the tawse intaglio Sep 2014 #11

how about electrical shocks? And now I am thinking about A Clockwork Orange. KittyWampus Sep 2014 #12

What part of an adult hitting a child with a weapon doesn't seem offensive to you?? HereSince1628 Sep 2014 #13