Ladies Confessions

Flappers were new women. Unfortunately for her independence and comfort, there were parents, husbands, and employers who were distressingly old fashioned. Many cluing to the tried and true methods of curbing youthful exuberance. With all that had changed, hairbrushes were still hard enough to issue stern rebukes rebellous young ladies. Razor strops still hung in bathrooms, ready to apply hellish heat to exposed feminine bottoms. Paddles, switches, and belts could be used to teach lessons in proper behavior. Her bottom still burning from the effects of a sound skirts up, panties down, over-the-knee, bare bottom spanking, the flapper might turn for advice and solace to the pages of a magazine created just for her. There she could share her experience with other girls with a similar problem. In the mid 20s, Ruth Froby collected letters to the editor, written by spanked flappers, from Experience, one such magazine published for flappers.