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Part 2 from Janus 15 by Richard Manton Writer Richard Manton (the pseudonym of a well-known novelist) continues his recreation of just one day in the life of James Miles, the factual Master of the Hoo Union Workhouse at Rochester, Kent during the 19th century. This compelling, obsessive yet authentic account, closely based on records of the time, takes one deep into the world of workhouse discipline for girls and raises many topical questions relating to right-wing moves to get corporal punishment put back on the statute books.  Part one  of The Man with the Golden Rod appeared in Janus 14. When, as James Miles, you were acquitted at your trial, the justices were clearly on your side. Off you go, they said. Birch those young reformatory trollops long, hard, and often. Did you suspect that the justices had a vested interest in the verdict? No? What a trusting sort of chap you are. The French revealed the truth in such Edwardian hooks as  Etudes sur la Flage...

Part 1 from Janus 14 by Richard Manton In January 1841, James Miles made headlines for the first time in the  Morning Chronicle . When charged with excessive use of birch and cane upon the bare bottoms of girls in his care, the justices laughed the case out of court at Rochester sessions. Mr Miles went on from strength to strength, supported by disciplinarians, press, and the justices — traditionally allowed to come and watch girls under the birch. As late as 1897, his colleague, the Rev Marshall Vine, supported such disciplinary zeal. It was still customary to give 36-stroke birchings in reformatory institutions, Vine insisted. ‘And I have done so,’ he added proudly in his evidence to the Parliamentary Committee. In our own time there is a groundswell of opinion, in the polls and in parliament, which favours the return of judicial chastisement. What would it be like? How would the system work? Is it quite as edifying as its supporters suggest? Perhaps before we give it ou...

A classic Roué video, featuring young Polly Smyth from Polly’s Punishments , who receives very light treatment compared to her co-star. The two girls, Cook and Simpson, arrive in the school hall for yet another detention session with their dreaded teacher. They stand in their gym outfits and are lectured as to their behaviour. Cook is the first to be punished. She is ordered to remove her short skirt and gym knickers and is then hauled across the man’s knee for a spanking while her friend looks on in awe. It is then Simpson’s turn and, bottom bared, goes over teacher’s knee for a stinging session on her very boyish rear-end. Both girls then stand wondering what is to follow. They — and we — soon find out as Cook is ordered to bring a stool into the centre of the room and then lays across it for what turns out to be a very painful and cruelly protracted beating with the cane. Simpson winces as she witnesses this wicked cane thrash her chum’s bottom, miserably aware that her own backside...

Short and sweet, from Blushes 11 Long summer evening; the sun’s heat through the day has made the atmosphere up in the loft room warm and humid. Laura hears him downstairs, taking his time  —  she kneels on that chair and tugs her knickers up so that her bottom will be ready for one or other of those things in his horrible box. Fresh-bared skin feels sweat-damp in the still air. He usually likes to have her like that, although sometimes  — ‘Hope you’ve got your knickers down, Laura!’  —  his voice from the foot of the steep stairs. ‘Y-yes  — ’   she calls, and slips her pants down quick as she can before his head appears at floor level at the top of the steps. Warm slidey moistness as the tugged-up tightness between her cheeks pulls from between the chubby snugness of her buttocks. ‘Now then, young lady  — ’ Laura gulps miserably, and pushes her ‘naughty little bottom’ out with uninte...