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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 ... 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”.
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She was not to see who wielded the birch at any one time. More than one of the girls looked in awe at the marks already on her bottom, and perhaps thought ...
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What Happens to Bad Girls? by Penny Birch - book cover, description, publication history, where to purchase.
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Jaunty young clerks, and incipient men about town, dwelling in decorous ... For, you see, if these little matters be not rigidly and minutely attended to, if a rope be out of its place or a screw not rightly home, such trifling accidents as mutilation and loss of life are not unlikely to happen. ... He has always work to do.
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In 'The Regime of the Stay-Lace' [Liverpool: Karn Publications Garston (1995)] I explained, through the evidence of children’s literature, memoirs, and correspondence in newspapers, how the idea of dressing boys as girls as a punishment had developed in the nineteenth century and beyond.
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“Oh, Julian, I wish you would tell me how you felt when Mademoiselle first birched you. How dreadful it must have been for you, a big boy, to have had your trousers taken off before us girls, and your bare bottom birched by your governess in her bedroom”.
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Having read the stories of women being 'birched until their backs bled, ... No, girls, a handful of birchen twigs does not suffice, they must be properly put together, and that has to be learnt; it is not everyone who can tie together a good birch-rod to last long enough, to have a sufficient swing that it may properly swish...
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As we shall soon see our present sexually perverse practice of having strange men-not fathers-brutalize the sex areas of children, both boys and girls, was never taught by anyone at any time in either the Old or the New Testament.
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"Indeed there were--wealthy, bored society wives with much time on their hands and not much to do, they would meet and and draw lots or play games--the losers were birched. If you "lost" it was skirts up and drawers down for a good stinging session with one of these while you bent over an footstool.
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Possession did not warrant a jail term in St Johns, but it did warrant punishment, and that was the cause of the butterflies in the girls' stomachs as the plane swooped in for its landing. My friend Harry, an attorney in St Johns, had undertaken Susan's representation at my request.
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