New Zealand
New Zealand is a country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two large islands (the North Island and the South Island) and numerous smaller islands, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands with a population of about 4 million. Its official languages are English, Māori and NZ Sign Language. The most spoken language is English. Of particular note, unlike most colonial nations, Māori and the Crown shared co-sovereignty from the begin.
Spanking in New Zealand
Most of New Zealand's current population is of European descent. In the 19th century, New Zealand became part of the British Empire. This also meant that European traditions were widespread, including European corporal punishment methods, both in judicial corporal punishment and regarding disciplinary spanking of children at home and school corporal punishment in school. New Zealand is renowned for being "more English than the English", and this meant the caning of boys at school -- typically, "six of the best" -- was extremely widespread, usually given in the hands-on-knees position, grabbing-ankles position or touching-toes position. Such canings typically took place in the corridor outside the classrooms, the boy delinquent being taken out of the class for the punishment and returning to it immediately afterwards. This custom provided semi-privacy, in the interests of sparing a boy unnecessary humiliation[1]. Leather straps were also not uncommon, participially for primary and intermediate level schools. Girls seem to have been rarely caned or otherwise corporally punished at school, though.
- In 1990, New Zealand banned school corporal punishment.
- In 2007, New Zealand increased it's spanking ban to at a total ban[2]
- In 2009, New Zealand held a citizen initiated, non-binding referendum, that voted 87.40% against the criminalization of spanking.[3]
New Zealand spanking art
Funbun is a spanking artist who lives both in the Netherlands and New Zealand. The spanking artist and author Damian Simons is probably from New Zealand.
Roguebfl is an author of spanking stories, who is American by birth but grew up in New Zealand where he has dual-citizenship.
See also
References
Links
- Description of corporal punishment (for boys only) at a mixed-sex city secondary school in the 1960s on World Corporal Punishment Research
- Caning in New Zealand schools, Oct 1981 on World Corporal Punishment Research
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- ↑ Source: Caning: Educational Ritual by Joseph A. Mercurio, 1975; first published in the USA in 1972 as Caning: Educational Rite and Tradition - review by Colin Farrell
- ↑ Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Act 2007
- ↑ http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/2009_citizens_referendum/