Birching is a form of corporal punishment with a birch rod, typically used to strike the recipient's bare buttocks, although occasionally the back and/or shoulders.

2013年8月19日 · Young women and maids were supposed to be dealt with by means of a standard or governess birch. The sometimes rather fanciful Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine suggested that a governess birch should be a minimum of three feet long, with six to nine withes and weigh no less than six ounces for application to the bared bottom of a 16-year-old girl.

One of the earliest punishments of a female convict recorded in Van Diemen’s Land was the lashing of Elizabeth Murphy. Elizabeth was 19 years old when tried at Middlesex on 28 October 1801 for stealing a straw bonnet. She was sentenced to transportation for 7 years, arriving in NSW on the Glatton on 11 March 1803.

2021年3月14日 · Whipping women was made illegal in 1820. In 1862 the courts were allowed to sentence men to either whipping or birching. Birching was another form of corporal punishment.

2023年8月18日 · Both male and female offenders were sent to Bridewell. The corporal punishments were severe. Birching was applied to the bare buttocks, with the offender secured astride a 'birching horse'.

Flagellation (Latin flagellum, 'whip'), flogging or whipping is the act of beating the human body with special implements such as whips, rods, switches, the cat o' nine tails, the sjambok, the knout, etc. Typically, flogging has been imposed on an unwilling subject as a punishment; however, it can also be submitted to willingly and even done by ...

2009年5月28日 · The birching was usually given in a kneeling position and never over clothes. The school punishment was reinforced by home punishment and the wise pupil would not willingly admit to a caning at school as this might well elicit a further punishment at home.

Judicial birching A judicial birching for minor offences, carried out in a police station, is glimpsed through the door into the next room while in the foreground, waiting in anguish, are presumably relatives of the accused.

2018年2月19日 · Every paragraph is alive with a sensual aestheticism -- with the tingling sensibility of feminine discipline at its most elegantly severe. The celebrated introduction to the book, despite its fantasy setting, is a seminal essay on the philosophy of discipline which shows that the authoresses of the book mean what they say very seriously.

2011年11月22日 · A bare bottom birching was considered far too immodest, but a girl would certainly feel the cut of the rattan cane when applied across her skirted posterior. Once rattan became easily available, its portability and durability rendered it …