Some More Thoughts on the Switch.

[Redskinluver]

Wanted to add some commentary in reference to use of a switch on the legs that appeared on the other thread.
It is true that in the rural South of the past that "a switching on the naked legs" was a common form of punishment or threat for misbehavior.
One reason it has fallen into disuse is that corporal punishment of children is much less widely used or accepted in our society. But for the switch specifically it is in part because we have become much more urbanized. City dwellers often don't have ready access to bushes or trees from which to cut a switch. In the country schools of the past, the switch was often the choice of implement for punishment, now superceded by the paddle, in those schools that still use corporal punishment.
Have a favorite punishment scenario. In it a girl or woman is wearing short shorts and gets a switching on her naked legs,likely as punishment for wearing them in public. The idea being that the stripes left by the switch will make her ashamed to wear them where people will see them and know what has happened.
Short shorts have been around for some time. In the 50s there was a novelty song hit called "Who Wears Short Shorts?"
Can easily imagine that in the 40s and 50s, when modesty in dress was stricter-and corporal punishment more accepted- that some young ladies wearing short shorts found themselves "doing the dance" as a switch was being applied to their uncovered legs.
And not just short-shorts-could have happened when the mini-skirt came along. Imagine some pot-smoking "hippie chick" wearing a mini-skirt getting a switching on her bare legs!
Of course would work too with swimsuits or tennis dresses.Or if all the girl was wearing was panties.
Goes without saying of course that a switch works well on bare bottoms. Though like more the idea that after a legswitching a paddle being used on the seat of tight shorts(or swimsuit or tennis outfit panties) concluding with a barebottom paddling.
Wonder if anyone here knows of someone who got switched for a "dress code" violation so to speak.