News report (Dec 2007) about the paddling of a boy, 11, in a Tennessee middle school. His grandmother had given permission for the punishment, but then complained that the swats were too hard. The district superintendent is interviewed. United States: Two TV news reports from June 2010 about an attempt to reintroduce school paddling in Memphis, Tennessee. New Zealand: TV news item (2007) about a Christian school that tried to evade the ban on corporal punishment by having parents come to the school to administer a paddling. United States: Two spanking machines. Part of our feature The Spanking Machine: A Resilient Myth in Popular Culture.

Singapore: Real-life footage of four formal, English-style canings over bending schoolboys' trousers. United Kingdom: A three-minute TV item in which a caning headmaster, and three caned boys, are interviewed (1996).Based on a real-life story, the main character is given three strokes of the cane in front of her class for being late to school. [5] Segment from a daytime TV chat show discussing a survey which found that many parents would like to see corporal punishment reintroduced in schools. Two TV news films giving rival CBS and ABC takes on a 2007 bill (which failed) in Massachusetts that would have outlawed parental corporal punishment in the home. Parents are briefly seen spanking their bratty toddlers. In a humorous advertisement for a chain of sports-shoe shops, a young woman tries out various different sneakers with which to punish her boyfriend across the seat of his boxers. Part of our "Spank while you sell" feature on CP imagery in advertising.

Five or six weeks later, Marrianne announced over dinner, “I’ve been thinking about what you said about spanking providing you with a little direction and discipline. I’m not at all interested in spanking you, but you do need discipline. You’ve a number of irritating habits, and you’ve been getting lazy around the house, expecting me to do all the routine tasks required to keep and maintain our home.” It was then that all three of Jordan’s new tormentor’s produced a selection of old wooden paddles, both fraternity paddles with greek letters or old fashioned domestic paddles with quaint phrases on them. A very brief glimpse of a hard paddle swat administered at a private Catholic boys' high school in Louisiana. I couldn’t decide whether this was sounding worse and worse, or better and better. The idea Evelyn knew I was into being spanked—she and my wife discussed it over lunch—was terrifying (even though it did play into my kinkier fantasies). While the idea a young lady might take me over her knee and spank me was more attractive than I wanted to admit.United States: TV news item on school CP from February 2011: Report on demonstration by students, parents and alumni against a ban on paddling at St Augustine High in New Orleans.