This was an ordinary little Norwegian town in the 1930s. The church ruled the town's population of 60.000 people with an iron hand. The power of the church was complete, total and unquestionable.

The church enjoyed their total authority over the town's population. People were expected to attend church sermon on sunday's. The Bishop was blessed with unrestricted power and kept meticulous records over which of the town's population that didn't attend church sermons.

He saw it as his holy duty to punish those that didn't attend church sermons. He always punished the fathers in the families that hadn't attended church sermons.

He would visit and punish them in their private home's. He would visit a private home in the evening, and the man in the house was then expected to have put on his best clothes.

If the family hadn't attended church sermon's on two occasions, the Bishop would put the man in the house across his knees and spank him 35 times with his hand on the seat of his best trousers, never failing to make him cry.

If the same family failed to appear for church sermon's on a third occasion, the Bishop would again appear at the family's private home. On such an occasion, the Bishop would again put the man in the house across his knees, only this time he would take his trousers and pants down and spank him very hard 50 times with his hand on his bare bottom.

Every family that failed to appear for church sermon's for the fourth time, would receive even harsher punishment. Then the man in the family would have to choose between having his entire family paddled on their bare bottoms, or the man in the house could choose to be punished by the nuns.

Then the man in question would have to stay for one week at the mercy of the nuns. The nuns on many occasions had as many as 5 or 6 men simultaneously locked up behind bars in the cellar of their nunnery.

The men would only be allowed to wear long nightgowns, that went almost down to their feet. Underneath their long nightgowns, the men had to be completely naked for the entire week. At the mercy of the nuns, the imprisoned men were totally helpless and had to work all day in the garden.

Any disobedience from one of the men, and the nuns would line up all the men and order them to take off their long nightgowns. Then the men would have to stand completely naked, their helpless arms hanging down by their sides, and watch as a nun spanked the completely naked man with a paddle.

The other nuns would stand right behind the lined up men's bare bottoms and watch both the man getting spanked, and the other naked men who could only stand by helplessly and watch their friend getting his little bottom punished.

Every morning, the men would have to take off their nightgowns and walk completely naked to the washing room. The men would be lined up, beside each other, facing the wall. Then a nun would stand behind their bare little male bottoms and hose them with ice cold water.

Then the nun would lead the still wet and completely naked men to the eating table in the cellar. The men had to sit completely naked while eating breakfast, while two nuns supervised the meal and made sure the totally helpless men behaved themselves. After breakfast the men were allowed to put on their nightgowns and worked for the rest of the day.

Then the men would have to take off their nightgowns and sit completely naked and eat their evening food, under close supervision from two nuns. For the men, no talking were allowed at all, within the nunnery.

Then the men were allowed to put on their nightgowns, before going to bed. On the last day of the week, as the men were about to leave the nunnery, the men were all spanked completely naked with a paddle on their little bare behinds. The families always attended church sermon's every sunday after the man in the house had received his embarrassing punishment from the nuns...

At school, the children was spanked for bad behaviour, bad grades and for failing to do their homework. The Bishop in this small town decided that whenever a child had been punished on three occasions within the same term, the school's principal would punish the child's father inside his office at the school in the afternoon.

The principal would notify the father in question by letter, ordering him to appear at his office on a given afternoon. The unfortunate and completely helpless child's father would have no choice than obediently obeying the school's principal.

The child's father would appear at the school's entrance, and the principal's female sectretary would take a firm grip round his arm and lead him through the school's old corridors and inside to her office.

Then the unfortunate man would have to take off his clothes in front of the woman and stand in a corner and face the wall, wearing nothing but his underpants, also bare feet, his helpless arms hanging down by his sides.

After 30 minutes of embarrassing corner time, the man would be led by his bare arm by the female secretary inside to the principal. The female secretary would stand at the side of the man, to hold him down as he was bent down over the principal's desk, with his hands holding the far edge of the desk.

Then she would pull his underpants down to his knees, and the principal would stand at the other side of the helpless man and spank him on his little bare bottom.

The principal was allowed to cane the children, but only allowed to spank their fathers with his open hand. He was very experienced and rarely failed to make the fathers cry, as he smacked their soft, little bare bottoms 40 times.

"Relax your bottom cheeks," the principal would order the man on the receiving end, and only smacking his bare bottom when the man relaxed his little bottom cheeks jelly soft.

If the man tried to stop the pain by placing his hand over his exposed behind, it was to no avail, as the female secretary then bent his arm on his back, holding it firmly with her hand on his back for the remainder of the spanking.

Then the spanked father was given a long scolding, having to stand in front of the principal's desk, his underpants down to his knees, his arms hanging down by his sides. Then, and only then, was he allowed to put his clothes back on and leave. The children always improved upon their grades, behaviour and homework after their fathers had been spanked...

Men and women were spanked when they did something wrong at their work, they were spanked if they got drunk and made trouble, they were spanked for not paying their bills, they were spanked more or less for every litle trifle they did wrong. Actually, grown men and women were more often given spankings than the children in the town...

In the town's bars, there was always one man from the church present, and the guest's in the bars knew he would pinch their earlobes and lead them inside the backroom and spank them on their bare bottoms whenever they made trouble.

Even in the boxing club in the town, one man from the church was always present. He would spank the boxers on their bare little bottoms if they used foul language or did something wrong. He would even supervise the boxers when they stood completely naked in the showers. The boxers hated it, but couldn't do anything about it, except mind their behaviour...

For the town's public swimming house, men and women were not allowed to swim together, since the church had decided that both the men and the women had to swim completely naked. Sometimes, as much as 40-50 completely naked men and boys were inside the public swimming house's large pool.

They even had to be completely naked inside the public swimming house's bar and the gymnasium. The completely naked men and boys were supervised by the nuns, ready to spank any misbehaving little male bottom...

The Bishop had total authority over the police as well and closely supervised their work. If the church were not satisfied with the work of the police, or the behaviour of the police, the Bishop himself would spank the policemen in question.

At one point, as many as ten policemen had been caught doing something that the church did not approve of. Wearing their uniforms, the ten policemen were ordered to appear at the Bishop's office.

The Bishop lined the ten helpless policemen up on a horizontal line in his office. "Right, boys," the Bishop barked, "all ten of you, take off your uniform jackets, your uniform ties, drop your uniform trousers and your pants, and stand with your arms hanging down by your sides."

The ten policemen immediately did as they were told, and soon they stood at attention, with their uniform trousers and pants down to their knees, their twenty arms hanging helplessly down by their sides and with their uniform shirt tails as their only cover.

Then the Bishop put them one by one over his knees, pulled their uniform shirts up on their backs and spanked the ten nearly naked policemen on their little bottoms. The policemen chose rather to be spanked by the Bishop, then having to be punished by the nuns...

The soldiers and their officers in the military camp outside this town, also were under the church's total authority. The soldiers and their officers had their naked little bottoms punished for the slightest little trifle they did wrong both at the hand of their officers, and by the church.

When the soldiers or the officers had to be punished harsher, the church sent the unfortunate soldiers to the nunnery, who'd put the helpless soldiers in long nightgowns and punished them for the same amount of time as they did with the town's men.

Soldiers were allowed to visit the town's bars, and they were painfully aware that they would be spanked on their tender, little young bare bottoms in the same manner as the town's men and women, if they made trouble.

Finally, at the town's prison, the totally helpless prisoners were treated harshly. They were undressed completely naked whenever they were caned. When new prisoners arrived at the prison, they were undressed completely naked outside, before they entered the prison.

Then the naked prisoners were led inside. They had to state their names, dates of birth, their parent's names, their professions and their crimes. Then, still naked, they were given a haircut, had a cold shover and were led to the warden's office.

Then they had to stand at attention in front of the warden's desk, their arms hanging down by their sides, while the warden lectured the completely naked prisoners about the prison rules. Then the warden caned the naked prisoners across their bare bottoms inside his office.

After the warden had caned the new prisoners, the guards bent the prisoners' arms on their backs and handcuffed them. Then the new prisoners were locked up inside their cells, completely naked, with their arms helplessly handcuffed on their backs. They were handcuffed until the following morning.

Every morning, all the prisoners had to undress themselves completely naked, and march on long lines to the eating room, with their arms raised above their heads. The prisoners had to be completely naked for each of their three daily meals.

No talking among the prisoners were allowed while they ate their meals. Any man that disobeyed this rule were caned on his bare bottom in front of the other helpless prisoners. Any prisoner being caned in the eating room, were caned until he cried. And while the man, or the men, were caned, all the other prisoners had to stand by their tables with their arms rasied above their heads and count out each stroke.

Whenever a guard spoke to a prisoner, the prisoner had to take off all his clothes, and stand completely naked in front of the guard, with his arms raised above his head. On such an occasion, the guard then spanked the naked prisoner twenty times across his bare bottom with his hand, since he had to address him in the first place...

The prisoners had to be completely naked while their relatives visited them, and if their relatives made any trouble, even they were spanked on their bare bottoms.

The prisoners' cells were searched three times every week, and off course, the prisoners then all had to stand outside their cells, completely naked with their arms raised above their heads. They had to stand and face their cells, so the guards could give the prisoner's bare bottoms a good smack or two, whenever they felt like it.

It wasn't possible for any man to feel more helpless than these defenceless prisoners felt during their captivity in this town's harsh prison. I know, my grandfather stayed there for years, and it's he that's been telling me these stories, true stories I may add.

Also, it's he that's told me about how the church ruled this town all those years ago. Fortunately, the church has no such power these days...