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Today's topic is Tataki (敲), a form of public caning used during the Edo period (1603–1867). At that time, Japan had adopted a policy of national isolation and was relatively peaceful and stable. As a result, punishments were rarely a major focus. So, what role did Tataki play in Japanese history?

Let's review and analyze a survey on discipline conducted by the British magazine The Governess in the early 1990s among its members. Unlike general BDSM or adult magazines, The Governess focuses heavily on spanking, so we might uncover some intriguing insights.

The birch rod is a type of whip that was used widely and for a long time in Europe. Due to its use for basic bare bottoms, it was replaced by the cane in the 19th and 20th centuries, but until then, it reigned as the most popular spanking implement. The key words for this old European implement are “Eton College” and “judicial spanking”.

Spanking is not only used for punishment but also to ridicule someone. In Japan, mooning without spanking is very rare case; almost always, they end up spanking their own buttocks. Why?

This is an attempt to roughly interpret Freud's work "A Child Is Being Beaten" ("Ein Kind wir geshlagen", 1919).The childhood spanking fantasies confessed by some Freud's patients. Freud begined to delve into the meaning behind these fantasies.

At the beginning of the 20th century, DeMoulin Bros cataloged and sold spanking machines to numerous fraternities across the US. Probably, there has been no other company before or since that offered such an array of spanking machines as DeMoulin Bros did. In this article, I will introduce some of their peculiar merchandise.

Unfortunately, there is not much historical literature on spanking culture in Japan. However, during the Edo period when samurai ruled the country, people's buttocks also should have been producing vibrant and melodious sounds, because the rakugo story "Shirimochi" speaks to us about that time !

We'll delve deep into Adam Johann Braun's spanking painting, "Punishment at the Girls' School".This masterpiece encapsulates crucial elements essential to the genre of spanking art while maintaining simplicity. It serves as an indispensa...