Competitive Caning and the Big BUTT

Free Chapters of the Woody Back to School Unit spanking saga are available at the Woodettes Publications Page.

Thanks to Paolo in Dublin for his kind remarks (note that he has migrated his erudite blog to the WordPress community so update your links!)

It seems like a lot of bloggers were lurking about in the Janus bookshop in London. Richard Windsor  has made posts about his early forays and now Paolo fess’s up to his Soho sorties.

It was also pleasing to read Paolo’s comments about the school system that we were brought up in (must be the same cane-generation ‘ish). Although the Woody Back to School Unit is entirely fictional and a product of my eclectic imagination the more biographical events that I self-indulgently ramble on about on this page are pretty much accurate. Which brings us niftily to the subject of competitive caning.

At the Woody Back to School unit the resident mega-minxes pass their time by competing for status on the Bottoms Up Table of Troublemakers. The inmate who has accumulated the most punishments holds the prestigious title of the Big BUTT. The current title holder is the world’s greatest über-minx, My Beloved Jojo!

The concept of competitive caning is not unique to the Woody unit. The British author and journalist Auberon Waugh wrote proudly that he held the school record for being beaten for six consecutive terms. My own grammar school practiced its own Big BUTT known as the ‘ton-up’ club where the goal was to accumulate 100 hundred strokes of the cane.

Canings were delivered in four’s (by the Masters) and six’s (by the Headmaster) so you only needed to be caned twenty times to join the club. This is not as much as it sounds. A 1977 survey by the Educational Institute of Scotland (the teachers’ trade union) found that 36% of 12-to-15- year-old boys were belted at least once in 10 school days; 21% of these were strapped three or more times in the same period. So  by comparison scoring a proverbial century we were not setting ourselves particularly ambitious or extravagant targets.

By contrast at the Woody Back to School unit Jojo has been caned over two hundred and fifty times in her pursuit of the coveted title of Big BUTT. Hey, I write spanking stories so in a series of books that are comprised of nearly 4,500 pages, or 4.5 million words, it is not unreasonable that one of the central characters scores a few whops along the way!

Jojo faces some tough competition and always has a plethora of mega-minxes snapping at her bumbags and trying to take her title. Another nifty segue into allowing me to introduce you to some of the characters featured in my stories in future posts.

Don’t Forget – Free Chapters of the Woody Back to School Unit spanking saga are available at the Woodettes Publications Page.