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Principles of Punishment PT

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From Janus 17 (with additional pictures from Janus 33) Punishment PT is unquestionably one of the most interesting variations on a theme of corporal punishment. It is, quite simply, PT carried out not simply as a healthful form of physical exercise but as punishment to be feared and respected. The punishment consists in the extremely lengthy and strenuous nature of the exercises which are at all times rigorously directed by a PT instructor firmly committed to making those under his charge suffer for their sins and infringements of the rules. Punishment PT is therefore by definition a form of CP (or Corporal, i.e. bodily, Punishment). It is doubly so by virtue of the fact that the person authorised to conduct a session of punishment PT maintains discipline — and spurs his convicted pupils on past their natural endurance — with liberal inflictions of his strap to any part of the body during the exercises. Punishment ...

Artwork — Janus Contents by Hardcastle 17

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Four more illustrations by Hardcastle from the Contents pages of Janus magazine — the final batch. From Janus 141 . An exclusive gentlemen’s club. From Janus 142 . A Marilyn moment after her caning. From Janus 143 . Lifeguard’s delight. From Janus 144 . “Shhhh…”

Questions and More Questions

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Story from Janus 57 by Michael Burntwood Gym shoes pattered over the varnished wooden floor of the gym hall. The netball match had started. It would settle the question, which team was to be appointed to play in the school championship final against the winning team from the fifth form heats. Long-legged sixth form girls were running up and down from one side to the other following the ball, eager to do their best to win the game and on Parents’ Day belong to the team which would show the younger girls that sixth form young ladies as always are the best. One of the teams was dressed in dark blue leotards and the other wore white sleeveless vests tucked into brief running shorts of shiny red nylon. Today, however, it seemed as if there was something wrong. Miss Hampton, the gym teacher, had to blow her whistle to break the game from time to time. Again the shrill tone from her whistle sounded within only the first minutes...