This contemporary engraving is captioned in French, "L'exécution de la punition du fouet" (Carrying out the punishment of whipping), but it is said to depict an event in Brazil. Even if (as I assume) this is meant in fun, it is quite intriguing that what is being acted out here is an English-style caning, rather than a US-style paddling. Picture said to be from 1972 at an American college in Bolivia. This is a less tightly cropped version of one of the photos in this news item. October 2009: A student is being caned on the seat of his shorts for arriving late at St Leonard's Boys' School. Canings were mostly given on the hand, punishment "on the buttock" apparently being reserved for serious defiance.
This is said to be from Kalgoorlie School, in the Australian outback, c.1900.
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