United Kingdom: A three-minute TV item in which a caning headmaster, and three caned boys, are interviewed (1996).

The caning was for bringing the school into disrepute; the paddling was for having so evidently practiced the move to perfection. The painter's daughter Cornelia is caned on her hands by her grandmother for framing the maid (and model for the titular painting) for theft. To browse for material on corporal punishment in a particular country, start by looking for that country on the Country files pages and also in The Archive. Singapore: Real-life footage of four formal, English-style canings over bending schoolboys' trousers. June 2007: Memphis school board meeting at which concerns are expressed over the consequences of abolishing CP.I am a little troubled by the reference to Eric Wildman, who, I assume, was a founder of your Organisation, in Ian Gibson's The English Vice, p. Thailand: Jocular punishment in which schoolboys are made to cane each other in front of their class. Colombia: More public whippings on the legs by tribal custom, this time of three FARC rebels for disturbing the peace.

One of the significant features of the scene was the absence of dialog and I don't think init would have worked as television without the almost continual audience laughter. But glad as I am of that, it's clear from the Tonkin performance in particular that this wasn't the effect that was originally intended.

News report, March 2018: Interview with student who agreed to accept posterial CP from his Korean martial-arts instructor. In a jocular atmosphere in a Texas high-school classroom, a sports coach administers one paddle swat. This caused a mumbling stir in the Assembly Hall and the loins of many girls, as Mummy’s turned to whisper to their child.