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1. “Culture War” Propaganda that Supports Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse
2. School Beatings in the News “Parental “Support” (as long as they remain ignorant)
3. Paddling: “Out of Control” Pseudo Science
4. Paddling Brutality and Injuries
·Paddling as Physical Brutality
·“Discipline beatings” passing on bloodborne pathogens such as HIV, Hepatitis B, or Hepatitis C in Africa and the Southern United States
·Paddle-Induced Vaginal Bleeding and Abortions
·“Jeff Charles’ Theory” of another possible cause of paddle induced vaginal bleeding
· Paddlings that result in kidney failure, ripped off skin, and other “unexpected” injuries
·“Discipline Beatings” that cause lifelong spinal injuries
·A Letter from Tennessee
·Three possible types of life-long spinal injuries that can occur from paddling
·Severe problems from tailbone injuries
· “Corporal Punishment” that leads to scarring or other lifelong physical effects
· “Ordinary damage” from “ordinary paddlings”
·Injury/Brutality Quotes
5. Reasons for Paddling
6. Can We Justify Child and Adolescent abuse?
7. Does Paddling Do Any Good?
8. The Phallic Paddle
9. Padding in the Digital Age: “Bringing Back the ‘Good Old Days?’”
10. “Did Jesus Teach "School Paddling?”
11. Other Religious Views
12. Lifetime Sexual and Psychological Damage for Victims and Witnesses
13. Sadism: a Job Hazard for Paddlers
14. School Paddling as Sexual Harassment
Now for another theory—and it is nothing more than some semi-educated conjecture--about paddle induced vaginal bleeding. I’ll throw this out for people to consider. Whether this mechanism is at work or not, it is nonetheless worth thinking about. This theory allows us to explore a few factual anatomy issues that make paddling a very unequal experience between the genders, and which also further insure that paddling’s physical and sexual effects are completely unpredictable and unpreventable.
In the Ohio paddle induced vaginal bleeding case the Doctors speculated at first that the girl’s uterus was dislodged. They later thought the traumatic shock itself caused the body to “bleed” for a few weeks. In truth I do not believe the doctors actually know what caused the bleeding to this day.
People are sexually built differently, just as they are in every other way that we see outwardly. With males some have a longer or thicker penis. Some have penis’ that expand and contract more while others stay closer to the same size, whether limp or erect. Some have testicles that are “close” to the body and others which hang low. If a man is warm or cold, sexually aroused or not, the size and engorgement of his penis and testicles can be affected within moments. Some women have protruding “Venus mound” genitals while others have more “flat” or withdrawn genitals. Some women’s outer genitals are extremely small and others take up a larger area. In both genders the actual placement may vary as well, with some being higher up toward the “front” and others “farther back.” We are all human. The basic elements are the same, but there is a lot of variation that can have a tremendous effect on injuries and sexual exposure during a paddling.
Likewise everyone has buttocks, but some are larger, more or less muscular, smaller, bonier, or softer. Additionally there is the way the “butt-cheeks” either “stay together” or “spread out” when various people bend over, alternately protecting or exposing their genitals in a very different way than the next person’s exposure will be. A person whose cheeks tend to "spread out” will have their genitals and anus much more exposed to direct and indirect impacts from the paddle than a person who has a large buttocks that “stay together” more when they bend over. Similarly the “position” assumed could affect victims sexually, as can the placement of the hit and the direction angle the hit comes from. The fact that “paddle position” is also perhaps the most highly pornographic “sex position” imaginable, and that a man’s penis is capable of fully inserting itself into the vagina or anus of a person holding that posture, shows that the paddle is likewise capable of contacting, with the right conditions, the victim’s anus or vaginal opening. It may not be the most common paddle occurrence, and it certainly does not happen every time, but it is possible to happen with a few conjunctions of slightly unusual circumstances. With millions of paddlings occurring every school year we can be very sure some number result in direct paddle contact to the vaginal opening as well as to the anus. The labia are very likely hit much more frequently than the vaginal opening itself, especially on women where they are large, where their buttocks configuration offers little protection, and where they are made to spread their legs wide and the paddle hits from a direction that facilitates that contact. A man may even sadistically try to contact a victim’s anus or vaginal opening with the paddle hit on purpose. It would break no law, and the injured and humiliated student would have no recourse, if he did. He can laugh and joke about it afterwards too if he wants to, as hitters often do with bruises and other injuries.
Not only are the force of the hits and the sexual arousal or humiliation of the paddler, victim, and witness(es) impossible to predict, but even “simple” seeming aspects of paddling, such as what position each student assumes and which part of the student’s body is the “target” are, in practice, complex. Paddlings for individual students are never applied "the same," even within the physical act itself. No two paddlings ever have "equal effects." Paddling is unjust because various students have so many differences that the position is itself actually impossible to define. “Bent over the desk” could mean the buttocks are projected high, low, or straight. Even if the students were told to always assume the “exact same position” as all other victims, the genitals on some will nonetheless be exposed to the paddle much more so than others, as will the anus and tailbone. The specific “target” the paddle impacts is thus another impossible to define variable. Even if we outwardly think the student has the same position and we are hitting the same part of the buttocks we can be sure we are dishing out very different punishments to every student. Violence is not quantifiable even in how it is dished out, before we even begin to consider people's individual biology, gender, and psychology. There are tremendous bodily variations between individual victims, sexual dangers from primary or secondary impact with individuals who are "built" in significantly different ways, that are likewise impossible to define or predict ahead of time.
What I am about to propose for consideration will involve using a small amount of mechanical knowledge that most of us possess. We can use an analogy of a hand bicycle tire pump to make it easier. Air is compressed when the plunger is pushed down and the air gets pushed into the tire. There are check valves and such built into the pump to make sure the pressure stays in and this allows us to “pump up” the pressure, but when we are considering paddle hits we can ignore all of that and consider the effect of “just one pump” to a balloon. If we draw the handle up and attach the hose to a balloon with a tight fit and then push down the handle the balloon will inflate. If we then unseal the balloon the air will come back out. The effect on the balloon is that it will stretch larger and then shrink back to its regular size.
Many of the women we have interviewed have experienced abdominal pain after a paddling. I attributed it at the time to them being sick from worry or stress or something. Perhaps that is all it was. I wonder now, however, if it could involve paddle-induced air compression into their vaginas that was not enough to cause hemorrhaging, but was enough to cause abdominal pain. Like all hitting this is not “science” and could not be predicted in any one event, but I think it is likely to happen to some degree in many paddlings.
Chapter 4: Paddling Brutality and Injuries