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Child Abuse Story From Simon

by Simon
(Newcastle, UK)




My Father had been brought up in rural Scotland and his Father had hit him with a belt during his childhood. He was determined I should not have such treatment. He only ever spanked me with his hand. Although it hurt, the humiliation and the abuse was not the spanking itself but the baring of my body before and after a spanking.

My Mother had left my Father when I was very young. I don't remember her at all. He did all the bringing up. If I had been bad or rude or done something wrong he would call me over and pull down my shorts or trousers and then my underpants as he told me off before putting me over his knee. This was in the 60's and through to the mid 70's so lots of other kids got it the same way. For me two things marked it out. He was a sociable man and there were often other men there - his work mates or men from his hobby clubs. They would see my spankings which I hated. The other thing was that it continued during my teens as I was growing up.

I matured early - maybe about 11 and I begged him to stop the spankings and stop pulling down my underclothes but he had been belted until he left home at 20 on his bare rear as he told me many times. As I say I went through puberty very early I found the audience for my spankings more and more difficult and the fact he undressed me for them like a small child very difficult indeed. I was spanked standing up as I got older in front of him and everyone looking. After a spanking I'd be put to stand in a corner to think about what I'd done still with my rear and private parts uncovered. If my Father left the room the men, often they had had a few beers, would tell me to turn round and tease me about still getting a spanking and fact I had red pubic hair.

Although I got absolutely no sexual urge from the situation (then or now) I would sometimes get a partial or full erection before a spanking but my Father did nothing to lessen the intense embarrassment of this in front of others. For my Father it was harmless but as a teen growing up and needing privacy it was an ordeal which I now think was abuse.



Most of my punishments were in the early evening and often I'd be told to go upstairs and just put on my pyjama top and come down for the evening to watch TV and have my meal. My Father would make it clear that there was no need for pyjama bottoms for me because I had been 'bad' in some way. Again there were comments - I had "forgotten" my pyjama bottoms and teasing about my genitals.

Once maybe twice my punishment was seen by the sons of my Father's friends. I was about 15 and my genitals and build was like a man, they would have been about 9 I think. I was very scared they would tell people that they had seen me spanked but even more that they had seen my Father take down my underpants and they had seen my penis. I was a very shy nervous boy and the possibilities of what might happen ate in to my mind for months even years afterwards.

My last spanking was at 16. It was done in the same way as when I was a 5 year old.

I told my Father how much all this has affected me once. He was very surprised and said that he had only spanked me in front of his mates who I knew and that the baring was to teach me a lesson. He repeated many times that he had never belted me which was true but the humiliation stayed with me even after I met my wife and had children of my own. People have said that that I could have simply overpowered my Father but he had a strong mental hold over me and I would never have argued.

I'm sorry if this is of no interest but it's been helpful to write.




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Oct 01, 2011
Simon:
by: Darlene Barriere - Webmaster

I'm so glad you wrote your story and that it has helped you doing so. Your father not only emotionally abused you, he sexually abused you as well, using a form of so-called discipline that was, and still is, socially acceptable. One could argue that he was misguided, and simply went too far for too long. That's not what he did. He was ceremonious in the way he set up the spankings: making you come downstairs with only a PJ top on, etc. He paraded you naked in front of other adults, and then later on even other children. He left you to be teased by them while fully exposed. These men were "getting off" on your punishment. A real man would have either put an end to it, or at the very least would have left the premises and given you privacy. Your father set you up for further sexual abuse, whether or not it actually happened. He "romanticized" what a spanking should entail, and then he carried out the fantasy of what HE himself would have preferred when being disciplined from his own father. It's all very convoluted. The power and control he held over you lasted your full childhood...it wouldn't surprise me if it has followed you into your adulthood. It's perfectly understandable that you didn't try to overpower him. Just as it is perfectly normal for a young male to have an erection when he anxious, scared or nervous. Always remember that, Simon, always remember that. And now you need help with the repercussions of what you endured. Please seek out some form of counselling in order to help you deal with the shame, the embarrassment, the low self-esteem, all of it. You ARE worthy of that kind of help. Try not to get wrapped up in the fact that it was legal for your father to do what he did to you. Slavery was legal at one time...most of us now understand how wrong it was. I hope for the mental health of all children in the world that there will come a time when society realizes that spanking is truly harmful to a child, on many more levels than many people want to believe. Thank you for sharing your story with my visitors and me.

From Victim to Victory, a memoir
Darlene Barriere
Webmaster: www.child-abuse-effects.com
author. speaker. survivor. coach
From Victim to Victory, a memoir



Oct 01, 2011
thank you
by: Tim L.

Darlene is right; your father concocted a deluded fantasy where the only thing wrong with the way he was treated in his childhood was the specific object used to spank him. His obsessively bringing up that he was belted by his father until he was 20 years old (!) was also used as an excuse for him to take out the obvious anger he should have directed towards his own father on you, his innocent son who he intruded upon, humiliated, and abused to the amusement of his drinking buddies. He thought nothing of your dignity, your feelings, your physical, sexual, or emotional health. I can imagine how disturbing these scenes must have been, and I'm so sorry you were forced to live through them.

You deserved a kind, affectionate childhood with a father who would never hit you in any way and would protect you from being subjected to things like this. Your father should have dealt with his own past and determined to really give you a substantially better life than he had as opposed to making a farcical change and maintaining his subservience to his own father. Then there would have been no need to share with you repeatedly that he had been beaten by his father. You weren't his therapist and shouldn't have been the object of his resentment either.

Oct 02, 2011
YOU ARE STRONG
by: Anonymous

Hi Simon,
Im so very sorry you had to go through all of that! The reenactment of past trauma by the parents in a feeble attempt to regain some form of control,understanding, meaning, "closure" or even dare I say revenge over what happened to THEM is ABUSE. Because it tears down your sense of self, it is humiliating, it is toxic and its unbelievably painful! Im not a psychologist but after having endured the physical beatings in my childhood and talking to a lot of other physically and sexually abused individuals though group therapy, I found to my detriment that this is a common theme among us abused children. I have personally documented 50 cases of people that their parents kept reenacting the past in some form or other and the worse bit is that through the alteration of some "ceremonial" bits of the abuse, they vehemently claimed and on some level believed that THEIR abuse was "different" and "ok" just because the method was a little "less" harmful or little "less" physically painful...Of course THEY judged what was less painful...Darlene is right. They DO get a kick out of it and they do enjoy it because instead of looking deep down inside and DOING something to stop the pain, they transfer their experiences onto their innocent, helpless children. Children that cannot protect themselves. You said that a lot of people told you "hey you could have overpowered him"...this is done in films not real life...Abused children love their parents and they dont "overpower" them. They are AFRAID. Physical power has nothing to do with it.
Simon I am so glad you found this place. Your journey in healing will have its ups and downs but you will make it! It wont be easy to work through the pain but its something that needs to be done especially as you have children of your own and you want to enjoy your life with them, being happy and content! In my humble opinion you need to seek out some form of support, councelling and talk to people that were in your shoes and can help you, show you the ways to move on and heal. Im wishing you all the best from the bottom of my heart. Hang in there! You are strong!

Oct 02, 2011
embarrassing and wrong
by: scott 1

Hello Simon.

I was a child of the mid 60's to the late 70's and personally experienced, witnessed and overheard a number of such punishments unfortunatley. leading me to beleive that they were common. School spankings of my own by far had biggest impact on me. In an almost daily ritual through inflated convoluted reasons, the submission required. The forced removal of pants and underwear. All in full veiw of the classroom full of my peers! All so unnecessary!! I am familiar with the feelings of public exposure you are referring to. The public exposure we endured during these punishments were probably meant to deter us from further disobedience. I cant help but wonder if these adults remember how embarrassing and wrong it was for them as children to be stripped and beaten. Surely that is what happened to them, right? If it was done to them then they should have known how wrong and excessive it is from their own experiences. AND NOT DID IT TO US! But yet they chose to ignore that and went off on their own little power trips, perhaps replaying a fantasy of dominance and control in which to abuse. I have to ask the question and explore the devious reasons behind these peoples behavior toward us. It was wrong! They were wrong. Thanks for sharing your story. You are not alone.

Oct 03, 2011
because I was physically, emotionally, sexually abused It is your turn now
by: maurice

Simon: You like many a loving and cherishing parent stopped this cycle,of ABUSE, Fantasy, Pervertedness, Unreal, Humiliation, Good on you Simon: The taking away ofachild/adolecent/young adult dignity is abnormal and done by pedophilles and sicko's of animalistic thinking adults on the innocent and the vunerable: Thank You: You wrote from your heart, it was as you put it exactly the same for me and many who were beateen spanked on their bare bottoms with all the the control orders by sick adults. With Darlene I say I am glad you wrote your story and that it is a stepping stone to be free of the effects it has had and having on your life: Read Darlene's comment slowly, You are one very brave, courageous and intelligent man: You will do what is the best for you, which in turn will benefit your two beautiful children and their mother: You are strong as Anonymous puts in the comment written: Embarrassing and Wrong as Scott 1 puts it: Thank You as Tim L puts it: Simon you can be certain we who are leaving you comments emptaise with you in all you had such great courage to put on paper: New Begiinings NOW Simon: Our innocence was evaded by a controlling, sicko of an adult; He only spanked me with his hand.Although it hurt, the humiliation and the abuse was not the spanking itself but the baring of my body before and after: I was numb, scared, sore, after being beaten with instruments belt and all: Yet Simon you speak the real truth, the real and lasting effects and the memory of standing there naked from the waste down: Yes, I was made stand while others watched too; I am ever so gratefull you were so honest and brave to write what you did: Now Simon I ask you to read Darlene's comment which was written for you personally but it sure gave me great comfort and affirmation too: She sure wants you to move on in your life: as she does all her Family of Visitors who tell and write their Abuse story: She is a Victim into Victory and has with counselling and therapy become the wonderful caring steward of her site for the benefit of us all: It is for many now a site for hope, That there is a life to be lived after the horrificness of being abused as a child/adolecent: Her affirmation and her woman's heart words to you Simon are lovingly for your happiness in living your life to the full with your children and letting go now that you have put your real feelings down on paper: Have a healthy mind in a healthy body making sure your children do too:

Nov 07, 2011
Thankyou
by: Simon

I had not expected comments but thank you so much for what you have said. I will think on this. Simon

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