The art of 'slicing'
All that is required is an 18 inch ruler, a cooperative guy deserving of corporal punishment and humbly accepting of his due lot, and a strong right-arm.
The guy to be 'sliced' lowers his trousers and 'tucks up' his shirt. He stands upright, then bows slightly forward, keeping his back straight. He is wearing only a nylon pair of jocks. The contours of his bum-cheeks are precisely positioned for what is to come.
He chooses which buttock is first to be sliced. "My right bum-cheek!" he asserts.
His position is marginally adjusted so that the ruler can make maximal impact on his chosen buttock.
In contrast to a strapping or caning, the ruler is slashed downwards. It makes contact with the chosen buttock at all but 180 degrees, not at the more usual 90 degrees.
The impact is interesting to watch. The sliced buttock is initially still. Then it 'bounces'. The deserved pain of the 'slice' is clearly registered. A gasp is heard. Then careful aim is again taken and the second 'slice' administered. Again the pause, the 'bouncing' buttock, the heard gasp, and the repositioning of an obviously throbbing and squirming bottom so that the the 'slicing' might continue.
One waits, quietly watching the squirming but conveniently positioned bottom. One lines up the ruler. "Keep that bottom still!", one commands. One raises the rules then slashes it downwards, noting yet again the 'bouncing' buttock when it receives and registers the 'slice'.
When six 'slices' have been adminstered to one buttock, one slightly repositions the miscreant so that the other buttock is conveniently positioned. Aim is taken. The buttock twitches as the ruler gently taps the fleshy buttock prior to being raised and brought into contact in a neat and precise line of all but unbearable pain.
Six 'slices' on each of two firm but fleshy buttocks.
"Let me see the marks!" one commands.
The nylon underpants are lowered. Without being so commanded, the chastised miscreant bends slightly forward. A bared bottom is revealed and made available for close inspection. One slice has cut through the outer-skin and resulted in marginal bleeding. The remaining eleven slices have, as desired, led merely to eleven red weals, each of which when squeezed obviously causes the 'sliced' miscreant considerable discomfort! One watches the squirming and indeed jerking pair of buttocks with bemused interest....
There is an art to delivering a slicing.
The art is well worth mastering!