When I was growing up in the 1950's, a lot more dads whipped their sons, especially in working-class homes. Our dad never whipped us, but Mike Bies my neighbor, and his older brother Dave got beat often and quite brutally by their father. In the trailer court you could hear everything that was going on next door and so the beatings the boys got pretty regularly for a number of years was no secret to anyone.
One time when I was around seven or eight while I was in the bathroom taking a _s_h_i_t_, I overheard Dave getting a whipping from his dad with all the shouting and crying and realized that the bathroom was the place to go to hear the guys getting it.
Old man Bies would whip his boys with a razor strop. Mike showed me strop hanging on the wall of his dad's workroom where he administered the beatings. He showed me the table his dad bent them over when he did it to them. I acted real interested but Mike got embarrassed.
I always knew when there was going to be a strapping next door. You could hear Mr. Bies shouting like he did before someone really got it. Sometimes I went into the bathroom where I could hear it all better. His dad always played the radio loud to cover up the sounds of the thrashing, but I could hear Dave or Mike crying and begging his dad not to beat him.
A couple of times, I heard Mr. Beis telling the kid to pull down his pants. "Those too," I heard him say once to Mike, "farther, pull 'em down farther," his dad demanded, "pull 'em all the way down to your knees." Then I could hear the sound of the strop make contact with his ass and the little squeals that punctuated the crying. The whippings were always around a dozen strokes administered fast with a lot of screaming and crying. If you didn't get to the bathroom fast, you'd miss the best parts.
He shade was always pulled down and so I never go to see any action , but I heard plenty. At some point, I started jerking off while I listened. One time, I got Mike to show me the marks on his ass from where he got beat the night before. It got me all excited to see his ass covered with big raised welts. I went back to my bathroom and jerked it off three times afterwards.
When I was fifteen, the Bies's moved out of the trailer court.