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Karen L wrote:I went to a strict christian girls junior high and then high school in Mississippi, USA, where students were often paddled. You could get up to 10 swats for serious infractions. Many girls were aroused by the idea of paddlings, but that was overcome by fear if you were going to get a paddling yourself. I never heard of a girl orgasming during a paddling, but occassionally, a girl wet herself. This was more common at junior high, when the girl paddled was only 12 or 13 years old.
Karen L wrote:I did get the paddle myself quite a few times. I’ve forgotten exactly how many. This was 30 years ago now. My first paddling was about age 11, and my last was at 16. And yes, it hurt like hell. The typical American high school paddle is a savage instrument, and the one used at my school was no exception. Your bottom felt virtually on fire after the first couple of swats. If you were getting more than 5 or so, it became numb to the later swats. Afterwards, your buttocks would be sore and bruised for days, and it was painful to sit down.
Historian wrote:I have some interesting historical information on this topic. Going back 250 years or so, when the birch was used to maintain discipline in Britain’s schools, reformatories and orphanages, the French philospher Voltaire, commenting on the English system of institutional child discipline wrote that “It is shameful and indecent that the birch is used upon the naked buttocks of children with such severity. The nerves between the sphincter and the pubis become inflamed, and emissions are often caused, and this frequently happens to young girls”
The word “emissions” is generally believed to be a euphemism for orgasm, and does not, necessarily, refer to bladder or bowel emissions. Indeed, the word orgasm did not exist at that time, and the word “emission” was the only term, which was in use then, to describe the male orgasm. The female orgasm, officially, did not exist in Voltaire’s time, but Voltaire’s reference to “emissions” being caused in young girls when being flogged with the birch, is generally thought to be a reference to the equivalent physical response of the male “emission”, or orgasm, occurring in a girls.
When girls were birched, especially in reformatory and orphanage institutions of the period, it was normal for the girls to be strapped to a flogging, or birching “horse”. This piece of furniture was basically like a saw horse, or trestle, and consisted of a narrow beam at the top, supported on four legs, which splayed out. A girl to be punished would lie with her belly on the narrow top beam, while her wrists and ankles were secured to each of the horse’s four splayed legs. In this uncompromising position, her naked buttocks would be flogged with a hefty bundle of brine soaked birch twigs, until they were a red, raw, mass of bloodied flesh. However, once strapped to the flogging horse in this position, the victim's pubic area, would invariably be resting on, and pressing against, the narrow beam which formed the top of the horse. Any movement of the girl’s pelvis during the flogging, would inevitably result in the clitoral area rubbing against the top beam of the horse. During the birching, the victim would invariably be clenching, and jerking in her pelvic region as the birching, which could be four or five dozen strokes, proceded. The effect of the clitoral region rubbing and grinding against the top of the horse, as the girl clenched and writhed, combined with the rush of blood to the buttocks, and neighbouring genitals, caused by the birching, could easily trigger an involuntary orgasm in the flogged girl, and often did.
There was no outrage at that time because female sexuality, let alone female orgasm, officially did not exist at all, and certainly not in girls between 12 and 17 or so years old, which the inmates of such institutions would have been.
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