I Believe In Corporal Punishment

I was intrigued by pictures today of a young woman receiving a public caning in Indonesia. Leaving aside the bizarre nature of the "offence" for which she was being punished, it seemed that she was caned on her back. Surely that is cruel and dangerous. The place for the cane is the bottom.

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Carissimi · 70-79, F

It's degrading, humiliating, and injurious to both body and mind. I imagine it would cause resentment to fester in an individual undergoing such a barbaric ritual.

MartinII · 70-79, M

I don't agree that the ritual is barbaric. I would have thought that a moderate, properly applied caning was less barbaric than six months in a disgusting prison, for example. (I don't, of course, think that any punishment was appropriate in the case to which my post related.)