I Wear Short Trousers

@curmudgeon1968: I agree. I had to wear short trousers to school until my sixteenth birthday but at home was expected to change into short trousers as soon as I arrived home. The domestic regime under which I lived until going to university was extremely strict, including regular corporal punishment with the
'correction belt' which hung on the back of my bedroom door until I was twenty-one. I was always 'master' at home.

@Masterdee: In my mates' rooms I saw sometimes the belt hanging as a perpetual deterrent and I always thought they felt embarrassment when I paid a visit to them. Thanks Got, at home the 'correction belt' hung in the closet but I was not rescue from getting lessons from "Master Belt". As long as a lad lives under the same roof with his parents, he must submit to the rules of the house. As for short trousers, they are in fashion now and teen guys like to wear them with t-shirts, leaving their bare legs and shoulders as much as possible to the view. It's sexy, and I like it.

@Codrin: I certainly felt embarrassment when anyone saw the correction belt hanging on my bedroom door - even more when it was used on me in front of them.
I agree about current fashion - but there is something quite different about being made to wear them, I think. Were all your lessons from 'master belt' positive?

@Masterdee: Most of them yes - I suppose. For example I no more stole money after I was caught and severely beaten (in my mother tongue, the word 'spanking' does not exist). As a kid, I feared the belt and did my best to avoid getting it. In my teen years however I was tempted more often to step astray (i.e being rude or answering back), even I knew well the consequences. What's about you?

@Codrin: What is your mother tongue? Mine is English, but I would not use 'spanking' regarding the belt; I used 'beaten' also. Indeed, some major lessons were learned - but there were several rules of 'etiquette' and 'obedience' which, in my view, were too strict and did not help me; no speaking at the table, asking permission to do almost anything, uniform inspection each morning and so on . . . I would rarely be rude or answer back because I knew what the consequences would be - not just a beating with the belt, but being confined to my room, having to kneel in the corner . . all part of a single punishment which was particularly embarrassing (humiliating, actually) when visitors called.

@Masterdee: I am from Romania. I firstly knew about 'spanking' on internet. I of course would had gotten off easier being 'spanked', but in my childhood we were 'beaten' at home and at school. "To eat a beaten' is the Romanian idiom, with some slang variations.

Any punishment is humiliating, so much the more someone could witnessed it. During my primary and secondary school, corporal punishments were inflicted in front of the class (only in the high school the stick was administered in private). Some braved and boast, but others were very embarrassed. I also had to stay knelt in the corner of the class or to kneel and bag pardon after getting the belt. As for the school uniform, there were daily controls. The more humiliating punishment that I got was in my high school when I had to cut my hair number one for being disrespectful towards one of my teacher and on the point to be suspended for some days. For 2 or 3 weeks I was bald-headed so anyone who saw me knew I was punishes for being a bad student at school.

@Codrin: I imagine you would have received further punishment at home if you had been suspended? Or perhaps when you went home having had to cut your hair?
Are those feelings of humiliation still with you? What was the era - 1980s,1990s, earlier, more recent . . . ?

It happened in the 70s. No way to hid the truth at home. I felt guilty, and I knew my conduct would make my mother very unhappy (my father had died long time ago). I did not know how to calm my mother down and to gain her esteem. I bagged pardons and I was he who asked her to beat me. I rather was ashamed for my guilt and for disappointing my mother than for getting the belt at such an age. Actually, as a kid being beaten was very traumatic, not humiliating, for we all get beatings in those times. As a teen I was conscious when I deserved to be punished, so it was shame, not humiliation.

@Codrin: And now?

Now what? 🤔

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