Singapore: Two German youths sentenced to caning (3 strokes each) for vandalism, March 2015. Three video reports. Papua New Guinea (at the time just New Guinea): floggings of German civilians by Australian troops at Rabaul, 1914

I was actually Jewish, so Pam was not a blood aunt, but an ‘auntie’ – a friend of the family. When I turned 13 – the age of confirmation and ‘manhood’ in both Judaism and Christianity – her attitude towards me became a little less playful and rather more stern. Volpeliere-Pierrot, Ben, pop star pictured aged 22 in 1987, slippered at UK state boarding school c. 1980 Canada: TV news item (2007) about a local school board offering parents lessons in how to spank their children.United States, school paddle, provenance unknown, used by Florida TV station to illustrate item about school CP, 2003 A further follow-up to the previous two items. TV news report from Memphis school board town-hall meeting in July 2007 over continuing controversy about the Blue Ribbon Plan, which abolished CP. Speakers at the meeting are seen calling for the return of the paddle, and the reporter waves a paddle around for the camera. USA: McConnell, Scott, 26, expelled from college for writing essay advocating corporal punishment, 2005; was himself paddled at school in Oklahoma UK: Pritchard, Ashley, deputy headmaster, slippered 'special needs' boys in 1980s, pictured in 2000 United Kingdom, a much clearer picture of the Walsall secondary tawse, removed from a school in 1988

I was very shy at that time and remember being embarrassed even if the girls saw me in my underwear. I saw all my cousins completely naked many times, but none of them seemed overly embarrassed by it. They also saw me naked sometimes – but by contrast, I was always horrified when they did, even when it was my male cousin or my aunt and uncle. I could never understand how anyone could treat their own kids with such disrespect. Canada: Sequence of real-life pictures of a teen boy bending over for a paddling at private boarding school, 1974 (also video clips)On the first day of my visit, we all hit it off great. Kate was very nice to me, and Denise and Kristie were a lot of fun to play with. Moreover, I thought Kate very pretty, and developed a crush on her almost immediately. UK: Huntingdon, Eric, purveyor of punishment canes to schools, pictured with bundles of canes, 1981