Ruled by the Rod by Sara Rawlings Read Free Book Online Page B

the head was pressed into the anus. It was with great
relief that I found that papa's discharge, combined with the
remains of the grease with which he had customarily anointed his
member, led to a less painful entry than my first impalement of the
evening. I dutifully worked on the doctor's excess of female
contamination and, in a gratifyingly short time, was able to effect
complete relief. But what with the effort and discomfort I had
suffered, and was still suffering, I was almost insensible by the
time the doctor had finished his rest on my back, and had to be
helped to my feet, after the doctor had carried out a further
examination and pronounced me only temporarily exhausted, and
having taken no injury that a healthy young woman, such as myself,
could not throw off in a very short space of time.
    After papa had
refastened the band about my right knee, so as to restore those
restraints on my impetuosity judged so necessary for the proper
management of women, I made shift to drag myself to my room. But my
halting shuffle took me little further than the outside of papa's
door, where I was found by my loving sisters and helped to my
bed.
    While they
bathed my wounded buttocks, for the doctor's cuts, though not as
numerous as papa's, were on skin that had not become accustomed, by
usage, to bearing the rod and, consequently, had come up instantly
into thick purple ropes, I told them of this new departure, and how
there had been a stranger present at my correction.
    Charlotte,
ever ready to speak without that due consideration and respect for
the actions of men, was quick to exclaim that it was not proper,
but Marion hushed her while I finished the tale, explaining his
profession, and papa's reasons for engaging him to examine us.
Charlotte was most abashed to hear how mistaken and undutiful she
had been to have doubted papa's discretion in the matter and
agreed, albeit a little reluctantly I thought, to Marion's
suggestion that she should purge her conscience by confessing her
fault to papa at the earliest opportunity, so that it might be
entered in his book and accounted for at her next correction. This
was to be in four days' time, as Marion was scheduled next, in two
days.
    On that occasion, too, as might be expected given papa's
intention to have a medical opinion on each of us, and a scientific
assessment of how to proceed with our management, Dr Boucher
attended the correction, and made an informed inspection of
Marion's nether parts, giving it as his opinion, inter alia , that she too
was a well formed female, who could bear severe and extended
correction if called for. He also stated that, 'In the matter of
the clitoris, the organ is overly large, a condition associated
with hysteria and other mental ills of the female, and cognisance
must be taken of this fact when the patient's treatment is given
final consideration.'
    Papa had
decreed that she should receive six extra strokes for having failed
to keep her previous appointment, on account of her menses, and
these he allocated to the doctor, who laid half on the already
twelve times striped buttock, and three, as in my own case, to the
tops of her thighs. I think it must have been in the interests of
investigating our physiological responses to trauma, that he chose
this rather unusual site for the welts he laid on our persons, for
a few days later he performed exactly the same service for
Charlotte, who was awarded three extra for her self-confessed lack
of respect for her parent's judgement in introducing a male into
our discipline sessions, which, as with Marion and myself, he laid
on her thighs, rather than her buttocks.
    Charlotte was
also the subject of an intense intimate examination, and reported
that Dr Boucher had diagnosed her form as well suited to the rod
and extended correction, as we others. Apparently he considered her
clitoris as, 'Not of unreasonable size for a healthy woman, though
probably rather more sensitive than some.'
    However, when
papa gave