South Africa: senior male secondary student undergoing "six of the best" at private school, 2012 (also video clip)

United Kingdom: computer-generated impression of flogging of junior seaman over the bare breech on board ship, c.1820 (view from 3 different angles)When Jordan objected, a further strip of tape was placed over his mouth, effectively silencing him. Singapore: Suparman Adam, secondary school principal, turned school round with more vigorous enforcement of caning, 2002 Pakistan: woman receives unofficial Taliban flogging on the ground, Swat Valley, 2009 (also video clip) Hillman, Mark, Colorado State Senator, recalls with approval "board of education" being applied to his "seat of knowledge"

South Africa: photo showing student in school uniform bending over for the cane, pre-1996, presumably posed but positioning is authentic United Kingdom, schoolboy attempting to destroy school cane on abolition of CP in Inner London, 1981

USA: Weitensteiner, Rev. Joe, leader of boys' ranch in Washington State, pictured in 2002, "legendary in his use of the discipline paddle" over 45 years

It was then that all three of Jordan’s new tormentor’s produced a selection of old wooden paddles, both fraternity paddles with greek letters or old fashioned domestic paddles with quaint phrases on them.The next moment it was far from ‘very well’ with my bottom as the cane was brought down hard and decisively across both cheeks. It may as well have been a red hot poker. I began to cry immediately but managed to stay bent over. I felt Mr Dawson’s hand rub my bare bottom consolingly. “Good boy,” he said. “You must learn to take your punishment like a big boy. Two more to go.”

USA: Prince, Stella, director of Florida charter academy, defends paddling of half the students, 2004 Unidentified Middle Eastern country: boy in his late teens bending over for the strap (also video clip) New! Canada: Benditt, Aaron, the "Ryerson Spanker", jailed for illicitly spanking teen boys, 2001 (picture from poor-quality photocopy)United States, school paddle, provenance unknown, used by Florida TV station to illustrate item about school CP, 2003 Bahamas: Deveux, Kenneth, teacher who allegedly gave 12-year-old schoolboy 70 strokes of the cane, 1999 United Kingdom: photograph of student bending over for a rulering at front of class, but it's all in fun (I think), boys' secondary school, London, 1970 Singapore: secondary student gets two strokes of the cane in front of his class, c.2006 (also video clip)