Scotland

Man wearing a kilt of the Clan Murray of Atholl.

Scotland is a constituent country of the United Kingdom. Scotland occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain and shares a land border to the south-east with England. It has a population of about 5 million and three officially-recognised languages: English, Scottish Gaelic, and Scots.

The two main cultural areas of Scotland are the Lowlands and the Highlands.

Tartan is a specific woven textile pattern that often signifies a particular Scottish clan, as featured in a kilt.

Spanking in Scotland

A Scottish birching table, 19th century.

Throughout history, Spanking was as common in Scotland as in the rest of the UK. Scotland also had judicial corporal punishment for a long time. In the year 1936, 230 juveniles under 16 years of age were ordered to be birched. See also whipping table.

The tawse

A two-tailed leather tawse with hanging strap produced for the BDSM market.

The tawse, a spanking implement that is a kind of leather strap with its end cut in two or more 'tongues', originates in Scotland. It was preferred to the cane for school corporal punishment, but used more commonly on the student's palms than on their buttocks.

Scottish spanking clubs

• Northern Spanking

Scottish spanking actors and actresses

• Lucy McLean

See also

Political satire of Scotsman whipping Britannia with thistles, the emblem of Scotland. The anguished onlooker might represent the Church of England (c. 1750).

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