The Strap And The Pillory
The city fathers have discovered that the big leather strap is the crowd-favorite spanking implement for their market-day judicial public punishments. The big bullhide whip does so much damage, the punishments are over too soon. The crowd likes to see the naked punishments dragged out, the longer the better. The spanking strap is perfect for that job; it bruises and reddens until the criminals can barely stagger away from the pillory afterwards, but it rarely breaks the skin in a skilled hand. And the city punitioner is very skilled:
I don’t know the source of these comic panels, sadly.
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One of my favorite middle ages inventions shame humiliateion atl at the same moment but criminal behavior among spouses would decrease if it was placed in the village Square on r again