This is a real historical fact that took place in the Prussian kingdom in 1730. At the court of King Frederick William I between him and his son, Crown Prince Frederick (future King Frederick II the Great), estrangement and conflict grew. Prince Frederick found solace only in communication with friends, among whom was Dorothea Ritter, the 16-year-old daughter of the theologian Matthias Ritter, the rector of the gymnasium in Potsdam. The relationship between Frederick and Dorothea was apparently purely friendly and limited to music, as Dorothea played the piano beautifully and sang. However, th… Read more

From soc.sexuality.spanking Google group Dave Davidson 2000 Celeste's Puritanical Grief By The Lurking Ghost Dave was glad when he toped the steep grade and the village of Virtue came into view, spread out below. He was returning home from Goliad where he had made an unsuccessful attempt to persuade the head of the Supreme Tribunal to change an outdated law, which made it an offence for two people to cross class lines. Each village and settlement had it’s own Tribunal which enforced the laws set by the Supreme Tribunal. Punishment was exacted for breaking a Tribunal law with puritanical ze… Read more

From soc.sexuality.spanking Google group blaa 2000 Corporal Punishment Primer – Part 1 Article published in Gentlemen's Domestic Monthly 1865 Title: The Use of Corporal Punishment in the Handling of Indentured Female Domestics I have been asked by this publication to provide a primer on the use of corporal punishment in the control of unruly domestic female indentured servants and field workers. It is not uncommon that sugar plantations in the Caribbean be worked and serviced by female indentured inmates from the British Isles. This relatively new source of workers is popular because of t… Read more

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN HISTORY By Alex Birch PART 1 Catherine Cadiere and Father Gerard Catherine Cadiere was born in 1709 in Toulon into a deeply religious Catholic family. She was, as a very young girl, put into the Royal Seminary to be schooled by priests and eventually came into the care, fatefully, of Father John Gerard. Gerard became obsessed with the girl and she fell under his spell, being induced into fits and hysterical hallucinations for which Gerard prescribed whippings on her naked body and these became regular happenings, soon followed when Catherine was about 19 by regular se… Read more

The House of Correction By Georgina James (From The House of Correction and other stories / Ed. by Helena Frost. – London: Wildfire Club, 1999.) Maria von Greef stood with the rest of those in the court as the magistrates sentenced the girls in the dock. The girl being sentenced was the sixth that day, and the last. She was also the slightest of them all; no more than sixteen at the most, and slender. The most prominent features of her developing womanhood were ill-concealed beneath the simple smock she wore, the more so because it had evidently seen better days on someone smaller, an… Read more