Do you believe corporal punishment was abolished in schools because they found out certain pupils were secretly enjoying it?

The night my girlfriend and I were caned by the headmistress together was the night we lost our virginity. We have since married and caning has played an integral part in our sex life.

propably the teachers were enjoying it to much

In my schools in the South they could paddle kids up through the 12th grade. Boys and girls. I think some of them did like it. I know some teachers and administrators did too! There are still 19 states in the US that allow corporal punishment.

I'm old enough to not only remember it, I experienced it. I certainly didn't like it, but it kept me in line. I suspect a few teachers enjoyed it, though.

it paved the way for many things - especially when private school or religious school based.. One, there is a sexual component, when one is exposed.. The humiliation and exposure also adds to the situation for the one handling the discipline.. One also finds that if the punishment is severe enough, one is more quickly to agrees to other things, that will diminish the pain.. Then over time, the pain pleasure mix manifests in that person for the rest of their life.. Many adults will share that they cannot find the pinnacle of pleasure without some modicum of pain..

Kids that got the cane was treated like heroes and the ones to hang around with

I doubt it. What happened is more people realized that it's barbaric and didn't want it inflicted anymore. As others have pointed out, nobody cared if any of the students enjoyed it, but the teachers enjoying it was a problem.

During the Rodney King beating trial, it came out that one of the LAPD chiefs (not Daryl Gates, another guy whose name I can't recall) had given a sermon in a church where he was a lay pastor, where he talked about beating children until he raised welts in their skin and how exciting this was.

Edit: It was Robert Vernon. If Gates was Stalin, Vernon was Beria.

I am in the Uk. Mum canes my bare bottom and I dont enjoy it.

I can tell you I never enjoyed it at school or home

Never heard of that. Only one teacher in my school was allowed to use Corporal Punishment. Since he was the one that usually got the worst behaved students in school. (Parents gave him written permission even when he didn't ask for it)
He used 'The Beach Bat' it was bigger then a ping-pong racket and had been reinforced by the woodwork teacher, and It was covered in graffiti. The only way you could write your name on that thing was to get smacked by it.
Though he rarely used it. He had such a loud bellow he could rattle windows and your very core.
And yes. It took me 3 years of being in his class to earn my name on it.
During lunch, he was on his knees leaning on a desk as he did, and the Beach Bat was on the counter behind him. I couldn't resist. He smacked him across the ass with it, just as hard as I could. He yelled. I dropped it and ran. Got on top of a desk trying to climb over when his heavy footsteps caught up to me and I was launched over the table and out the door.
I poked my head into his class halfway through the next lesson. He just looked at me and laughed.

bullying was one of the automatic caning offences at my senior school in the UK under the headmaster in charge there from September 1971 through to December 1983. There were others too:
cheating in school exams
smoking (tobacco) - drugs weren't in the UK schools then leastways not mine!
stealing
truanting
some other crimes got the cane too depending on the prevailing circumstances.

I know some did enjoy it but that wasn't the reason for banning it.

And/or maybe those administering the canings?

I don't think that was why it was abolished but it's true that some pupils and teachers were getting off on it.

I am old enough to remember corporal punishment and to remember the push to ban it.

No, this is not what was talked about at the time.

And I have to wonder how "popular" this belief actually is.

I don't think so... Part of the rights of the child, the problem is they forgot to stress that with rights come responsibilities

I think it is only later they enjoy it

A nice thought, but I think it was an early example of what we now call wokery.

More like it was turning on the pervert teachers.

@MaryDreamilton some teachers did as well

It used to be corpral punishment wasnt allowed when I was in school unless it was in self defense. kids were kicked out of school if they were a problem and the parents had to find an alternative school to take them too.

No. They got soft on the children… participation prizes for example

@MaryDreamilton 😆sadomasicism at school at an early age wow that is a new angle too the abolishment of school corporal punishment

A sadist and a masochist were walking together one day. "Hit me! Hit me!" said the masochist. "NO!" said the sadist.

Was that a 'popular belief' amongst dodgy headmasters who are too dead to be taken to court?

There [i]may[/i] have been some who actually enjoyed it, but I think it was abolished because of its barbaric nature.

Humans are an [i]incredibly[/i] primitive species. And, I'm just about ready to leave it all behind. My transition can't come too soon. It's going to be the best part of my life.

I don't think so.

No I don't.

🙄

Corporeal punishment was never administered when I was in school.

(at least not in the 90's when I was there)