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Members of Opus Dei wear cilices of barbed metal around their thighs. Those who wear them typically don’t talk about them and will keep them concealed at all times. This serves as a precaution against hubris (which comes from openly displaying piety) and also prevents those unfamiliar with the practice from seeing the resulting injuries. News report, 2012: A shopkeeper in Quebec foils a would-be young robber and spanks his bare bottom.
A six-minute report (Nov 2007) includes an interview with a rural principal who believes the paddle is effective, and still uses it regularly. In a dormitory in Romania, serious bare-bottom pain for a young man being initiated into a sports team. From a TV documentary about the Russian army. Rookie soldiers get a taste of the belt from their mates. What Do You Do When You Have Fallen Out Of Love With Your Wife, But Feel Like You Should Stay Because Of The Kids? Should You?
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The second implement I decided on using is no stranger to being used for woodshed whuppin’s. My infamous Italian leather belt, which I decided to wear today for this special occasion. Joey has shared with me many times that the sight and sound of me taking off my belt gives him that “oh no” feeling in the pit of his stomach. Even when I’m just taking it off to put it away. How’s that for some conditioning? 😉
College boys celebrate attaining adulthood by receiving 18 whoops with a belt on the seat of their jeans in a Polish birthday tradition. Fifth-century Syrian saint Simeon Stylites was the first famous “Stylite,” or pillar-dweller. In his time, the usual practices for an ascetic included fasting, self-harm, and solitary confinement in tiny spaces. Simeon felt it was his calling to do these acts...while also living in isolation atop an 18-meter (60 ft) column, completely exposed to the elements. In a jocular atmosphere in a Texas high-school classroom, a sports coach administers one paddle swat. A cilice (aka hair shirt) was an uncomfortable—and sometimes outright painful—garment worn underneath regular clothes, which allowed one to “mortify the flesh” and strengthen the spirit. Early Christians made these outfits using coarse goat hair and burlap-like fabric and wore them as undershirts and loincloths. This ancient practice saw its greatest resurgence in medieval Europe, where it became popular among ascetics, saints, and leaders.
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Three versions of a scene from one of the St Johns schools of Canada, part of our series on "Top CP Schools".
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