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Birching horse
From Spanking Art
A birching horse is an item of spanking furniture used for birching, i.e. corporal punishment given with a birch.
Similar items are the birching block, the birching table, the birching donkey, and the birching pony.
Birching horses were used in the U.K. for judicial and prison corporal punishment, both for juvenile and adult offenders. It is unsure if they were also used in the military or in schools.
The delinquent was positioned over the horse and restrained with straps or rope by his wrists. Optional additional restraint points were his back and/or legs. The spankee's legs would be on either side of the horse so that he/she was straddling it. The birching was generally given on the bare bottom.
In schools, a vaulting horse or vaulting-buck was sometimes used in a similar manner (albeit usually without restraints). Aboard training ships, a capstan, bitt or the barrel of a cannon was used (see kissing the gunner's daughter).
[edit] Gallery
 Drawing of girl over a birching pony by P. Fusty (1909). |
 Drawing of woman over a birching horse by P. Fusty (1909). |
 Illustration by G. Topfer for the novel Au bon vieux temps by James Lovebirch. |
 A wooden horse (Foltermuseum Freiburg, Germany). |
[edit] See also
- Spanish horse (torture device)
