The Slipper, which I will write about today, is an implement well known for its use in british schools as well as a classic tool for parents worldwide. For an implement with such widespread usage, it may not be surprising to find out that there is no such thing as “the slipper”. They come in different varieties.
The slipper used in schools normally wasn’t what you would call a slipper really, it was a plimsoll. With a sturdy rubber sole, it could make a thorough impression when used on some miscreants backside. A slippering does not leave long-lasting marks like a caning does, but it leaves the culprits bottom hot and sore. As the sole of the plimsoll strikes a wider area of the buttocks (for smaller backsides, it may even hit both buttocks in one stroke), the sting is not originating from a single point of impact, the whole bottom seems to be burning.
A slippering is widely regarded as a lighter punishment than a caning. While this is correct in general, a good dose of the slipper can be quite painful. If the whacks are carried out hard, any pupil will have trouble sitting down afterwards.
At homes, plimsolls are also used, but more common here is the “real” slipper, the houseshoe. The variety goes from rubber- or plastic soles to slippers made of leather. The slipper is most often used because it – like the spoon we already talked about – is easily available. I know my mother sometimes took hers off while I was already over her lap. Sometimes she took mine as well, if other “helpers” were not easily available…
Most household slippers are not that harsh in effect as a real rubber-soled plimsoll, but they still deliver sound lessons. A misbehaving son or daughter will not quickly forget a thorough dose of the slipper delivered by an upset parent.
The slipper hurts most on a bare or knicker-clad posterior. Thicker clothing removes much of the effect from the whacks.
The slipper, a tool used for both formal and informal cp, will with no doubt remain a favourite of many parents.
Thank you……i was regularly slippered when young. Surprisingly effective on bare flesh
Both my Mother when I was a little girl, and the Lady who discilines me now think the slipper is an idea way of giving a girl a good red bottom without any lasting harm. Even one or two whacks on the knickers was enough during my schooldays to bring me back into line very quickly!
Yes, Carolyn. The slipper had that effect on me as well.
Ouch! Very much reminds me of my schooldays. And a very sore arse!
In the US the slipper was not used to often, but it is used as a item that is handy. Thank you for the overview.
In Spain the slipper is the most popular and used implement to give spankings. It´s so common that you can found in the picturezx from Goya (Serie “Caprichos” N° 25, “si quebró el cántaro”) also, one of his pupils, Antonio Alenza has a coloured version named “la Azotaina” (The Spanking). In Brazil, the slipper is considerated as a “sacred” impement to spank also.
I agree with Maria, in Spain was very popular implement in home spankings. Was the favourite of my mother and aunts, and often even the view of one on my mother’s hand was enough to return my good behaviour.
Now, being a mother, I have used and I still use on my daughter’s bottoms, but recently progressing into a hard wooden hairbrush.
I got both the slipper at home and the plimsoll at school; you describe them so well for anyone who hasn’t experienced them
I always thought that a slipper wouldn’t hurt so much.
To this day, there is no finer sting than that of a well worn white plimsoll crashing on down on a well presented bare behind.
I got the plimsoll several times at school, a large white one with a well-worn rubber sole – stings like mad at the time, then leaves a not unpleasant afterglow.
Always across my gym shorts, never bare. THWACK!!
Oh ! it will be sad….. never wanted to have experienced like this
And this is slippers site. It pretty much covers slipper related stuff.
The plimsoll can indeed leave a naughty boy’s bottom very hot and sore. It was the standard punishment at my school.
The boy was required to touch his toes with his legs straight. This stretches the skin across his bottom very tightly and increases the effectiveness of the slippering. The prefect or master giving the slippering would then whack the slipper on to the boy’s bottom with a long swing using his whole upper body to accelerate the slipper to maximum speed, a bit like swinging a cricket bat.
The sound of the plimsoll hitting tightly stretched trousers or gym shorts could be heard all over the school. It was expected that the boy being slippered would not flinch or make a sound while being punished, though it was very hard to hold position if being whacked by a master or prefect who really knew how to slipper well.
After receiving the allotted number of whacks your bottom would be hot and sore all over. I also found that when I walked away after a slippering it always felt as if my underpants were sticking to my bottom.
Having had the slipper on the bare at home and the cane through football shorts at prep school, I’d comment that the slipper hurt more but wore off quickly. A caning hurt less but could be felt for hours afrerwards.
As a little boy,back in late 60′s and early 70′s,I was often slippered by mother either with a rubber sole flip-flop or with a leather sole carpet slipper.Her favourite spot was my bare thighs,where the sting lasted more and the effect was doubled by the tremendous sound of the slipper landing on them.Surely,an experience hard to forget.
i grew up in the 60′s & 70′s. i was slippered on the bare bottom at home & slippered on a trousered bottom at school both were very painful & usually well deserved but it was more prolonged at home & i was given corner time & sent to bed straight after.
I’ve been slippered by my mom ,too. What a tragic!
Back in the sixties I was caned several times and sometimes just in thin shorts. It was always very gratifying withstanding the stinging strokes even if there were six of them. I could not usually wait to see the red weils on my buttock cheeks not could the other boys want to miss seeing them in the showers. It has left lasting feelings and the need for re-enactment of receipt of such punishment. Unfortunately there seems some difficulty in finding regular donors. iloilo@mail.com
Back in the sixties I was caned several times and sometimes just in thin shorts. It was always very gratifying withstanding the stinging strokes even if there were six of them. I could not usually wait to see the red weils on my buttock cheeks not could the other boys want to miss seeing them in the showers. It has left lasting feelings and the need for re-enactment of receipt of such punishment. Unfortunately there seems some difficulty in finding regular donors. iloilo (@) mail.com
Back in the sixties I was caned several times and sometimes just in thin shorts. It was always very gratifying withstanding the stinging strokes even if there were six of them. I could not usually wait to see the red weils on my buttock cheeks not could the other boys want to miss seeing them in the showers. It has left lasting feelings and the need for re-enactment of receipt of such punishment. Unfortunately there seems some difficulty in finding regular donors. iloilo (at) mail.com
I grew up in the 1960′s and sometimes got a good slippering, usually it was my mother that would use this for more serious punishments, I was put across her knee and given a thorough spanking and had to wait in the corner for 5 minutes, which seemed more like 5 hours at the time, she then came back with a plastic soled house slipper, I then had to bend over the end of the bed and she walloped my bare bottom as hard as she could 50 times on each butt cheek with the heel end of the slipper, when she had finished my bottom was extremely painful & and hotter than a coal fire, it was a dark purple colour and I had trouble sitting down for about 8 or 9 days afterwards, sometimes the bruises would last up to about a month.
I have never been caned, but I think that the slipper can be far more painful if used ‘properly’ than is often thought – the heel of the slipper is about 3/4″ thick and when used with force it really hurts!
After a beating I was extra good and tried to avoid anything that would get me another slippering, I maybe got 2 or 3 ‘good hidings’ a year from the ages of 12 to 17.
I have a son, but I have only given him a couple of mild smacks on occasion – and I have no control of him whatsoever – maybe it did me no harm, but is still what would now be classed as abuse and wouldn’t inflict that on any child.
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