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Castigation
Corporal Punishment — one author’s perspective
I write about the lives of women. Men rarely feature in my stories except in a negative way, usually. However, some readers may be interested in corporal punishment from a male perspective. Sam Evans does this in his own particular style, which, like me, pulls no punches. Over to Sam!
Castigation
Man has long had an infatuation with punishment. I have entitled this piece Castigation. So, what is Castigation? It describes the infliction of severe punishment. One who administers a castigation is a castigator or chastiser. In earlier times, castigation specifically meant restoring one to a religiously pure state, called chastity. My name is Sam Evans, and I am a writer who has a deep interest in the subject. I am not alone; it is a subject which fascinates a huge number of people, many of whom are men.
There has always been a belief that much of this resulted from the use of corporal punishment in schools, but that was banned in the UK state schools in 1987, although it continued in private schools much longer. That is 35 years ago, which suggests that few under the age of 50 in the UK, anyway, would remember its use. Yet the subject is as much alive today as ever, and certainly with those who would never have seen its use. This means that while memories of school punishment still exist for many and…
