This story is set at some time in the future, at a time when Authority decided the reduction of crime, vandalism and general mischief among school age people and young people (especially boys and young men) under the age of 25, required them to be placed under a strictly disciplined code of regulation and behavioural control and that the slightest digression would result in inevitable corporal punishment, coupled, if considered necessary, with the humiliation of having pants confiscated for various periods, in which case an Athletic Support or G String were all that was permitted.
Laws were passed bringing into existence a Youth Court system and special Youth Police to administer the new regulatory control measures. In the case of young males it was gazetted that the term "Boy" referred to any male under the age of 18, and that young men from the age of 18 to 25 were "Provisional adults" , and 25 or over regarded as full adulthood and subject no longer to the Youth regulatory system. Provisional Adulthood had certain privileges, such as the legal wearing of long trousers. The Youth Court however, could at any time cancel Provisional Adulthood, reducing the young man concerned to a status of shame and humiliation far worse than the normal disciplinary control of "Boys". Such young men, termed "Shameboys", would have an uncomfortable collar fixed permanently around their necks for identification purposes and would be required to wear at all times shorts of extreme brevity, and to keep their legs and bottom and pubic areas clean shaven at all times. Frequent inspections would be made and severe bare corporal punishment meted out for disobeying.
This is the story of "Michael" a 20 year old university student arrested and brought before the Youth Court for vandalism while drunk and disorderly.
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Michael sat outside the courtroom, a slight tingle in his backside. He knew there would be no second chance.
He was a handsome lad, clean cut with a slight boyish figure. He was just 20. He was gay, but refrained from the outward signs of his _s_e_x_uality. He was dressed soberly in a neat grey suit. It was the year 2010 and gayness was accepted without concern all over the world, in fact it was encouraged as a birth control measure.
The enlightened Government of the time discarded the laws passed some decades before, against corporal punishment in schools and enacted legislation giving headmaster's, headmistresses and teachers the authority to spank by hand, paddle, strap or cane or other preferred instrument on the bottom, bare if considered appropriate. All boys up to the age of 18 must wear short trousers of regulation length above the knee at all times, even pyjamas, with severe penalties for disobedience of this law.
Michael was only too well aware of his situation. Although it was the first one to bring him before the Youth Court - drunkeness and vandalism especially were not tolerated at his university in 2010 any more than it would have been in earlier periods, and he had a very poor record as a boy at school. Once when he was 11 (and he still remembered the horror of having to take down his pants and underpants for the first time) he had received 12 of the best for smoking, and the huge swollen welts left by the headmaster's heavy strap had taken 2 weeks to disappear. But when he was 15 he had attempted to seduce a younger boy (boys are forbidden any _s_e_x_ual activities at all, even masturbation will earn them a good thrashing) and was saved from the Youth Court only because the Headmaster was his uncle. The welts on that occasion had been made by the vicious South African jambok the Headmaster kept for just such occasions, with his pants and underpants off and in public, and there had been 15 merciless strokes, one for every year of his life. Naturally, at the end of the whipping, the welts could not be distinguished one from the other, his bottom was a swollen mass of bruised agony and took a month to fully heal during which time he was denied the privilege of wearing pants and only a G string to modestly cover his genitals but leaving his bottom naked. He never touched a boy again. He was however, caught masturbating several times and each time soundly thrashed. He was also soundly caned several times for wearing jeans or other long trousers before he was 18.
Scrupulous records of all punishments were kept by the authorities and were available to the Youth Court whenever necessary. Most universities and other institutions of tertiary education have facilities to order and conduct punishments in public for minor offences, and various apparatus for restraint can be found in all quadrangles or other suitable areas for the application of corporal punishment. Serious misbehaviour is dealt with by the Youth Courts.
When "Provisional Adulthood" was cancelled by a Court the young men concerned were removed from their institution and detained in a special Detention Centre facility where their studies were continued but under a vastly different and savage disciplinary control. Back into short pants of extreme brevity, legs, bottoms and genitals are shaven and must be kept so, _s_e_x_ual activity of any kind absolutely forbidden, even masturbation, and absolute and unquestioning obedience to regulations expected. Merciless bare Corporal Punishment for the slightest offence. Pants can be confiscated for any period of time, and in fact most young men seem to spend their sentences without any as the authorities seem to prefer them that way. ____________________
The doors of the Court opened and a 19 year old boy, now a "Shameboy" by order of the court, was marched out sobbing in terror. The guards had already stripped off his pants and underpants and he staggered under the rough handling of the guards, one of them belting his bare bottom with his truncheon to encourage him to move faster. He was headed for the nearest Detention Centre and already he had been denied pants. The outside doors swung closed on the dreadful cavalcade.
"In you come Michael !" snapped a guard, "It might have been better for you if you had worn black gym shorts son, the Magistrate enjoys those, and today he's in a foul temper, a bit of nice leg might have cooled him off a bit - I reckon you'll lose your pants for sure."
Michael's case took only a few minutes. He had no hope, none at all. The Magistrate was dark and scowling and right in the mood to order the Cane in generous amounts. The verdict was guilty. Before sentencing, as was usual with this Magistrate, Michael was ordered to take off his pants and underpants and stood holding up his shirt tails while the Magistrate took a pleasurable look, he was even asked to make himself erect but was unable under the circumstances to do so. The Magistrate was obviously disappointed because he immediately ordered Michael to be taken out to have his genitals, bottom and legs shaven before he passed sentence.
In the special room provided Michael was shaven as ordered by the grinning guards each of whom tried to assist Michael to become erect as they said if he came back in that condition they were sure the Magistrate would go easier on him. Apprehension however was too great and the memory of the lad dragged out from the court and having his bare bottom belted with a truncheon didn't help either. They did however, advise Michael to strip to just his singlet and socks and they lent him a pair of knee length socks for the occasion. The Magistrate would like that they told him.
Back in the dock and clean shaven from the waist down the Magistrate noted with an enjoyable smile Michael's new condition. He also firmly believed pants of any sort were unnecessary for boys and young men. One reason why the Government, concerned at the rising juvenile crime had appointed him to the bench of the Youth Court. Pants impeded the application of Corporal Punishment and gave an unnecessary feeling of security. The Magistrate again ordered Michael to rub himself erect. It was totally humiliating to display his method of wanking in front of the whole court and Michael red faced hesitated, but an agonising belt from a truncheon across his bare bottom urged his hands down to try. It was hopeless of course, and the members of the court and the audience seemed disappointed.
The Magistrate tapped his gavel. "Michael, you have been in Provisional Adulthood for three years. Your behaviour while trusted with this privilege has been undesirable and prior to reaching this level your Boyhood behaviour was appalling. You cheated at one of your exams and as far as I am concerned certainly do not deserve the privileges of adulthood, I therefore cancel your Provisional Adulthood for two years, the first year of which you are denied pants. I further order that you continue your university course during those two years in the State Detention Centre under Rigorous disciplinary control and that upon your arrival there, and at a time convenient to the authorities, you shall receive upon your bare bottom 20 strokes of the Cane. That is all, take him away !"
Two guards dragged Michael out while a third vigorously and enthusiastically applied his truncheon to the lad's bare bottom. He was thrown sobbing into a Detention Centre Van and driven away.
Three days later he was marched naked to the Punishment Room. The Executioner was a young man not much older than Michael, he was dressed very provocatively in a sleeveless shirt and brief elastic waisted shorts which did nothing to conceal the extended excitement inside their front. The Cane was over a metre in length, at least a centimetre thick and swung flexibly from the executioners hand.
The Head of the Centre read out Michael's sentence, ordering 20 strokes of The Cane. He nodded at the excited young executioner. The young man raised the Cane.
The Caning did not quite draw blood. The bruising was spectacular, far worse than any hiding Michael had previously experienced. After it was over, the executioner, the front of his shorts very wet left the room. Michael was assisted roughly to his cell. Despite the condition of his bottom he was mercilessly subjected to the normal discipline of the Centre, his bare bottom available at all times for punishment. At the end of the first year he was granted the right to wear the brief regulation shorts, but because of his very frequent masturbation, found himself usually without them and face down on the bench in the Punishment Room.