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SPANKING MACHINES ( CLICK HERE for MEMBERS version ) ( We are now selling a machine , see our ROBOSPANKER Page . )
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" The utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was one of the first writers to contemplate the possibility that corporal punishment might be administered by machine rather than by a human being . In The Rationale of Punishment he wrote : ' The following contrivance would , in a measure , obviate this inconvenience :---A machine might be made , which should put in motion certain elastic rods of cane or whalebone , the number and size of which might be determined by the law : the body of the delinquent might be subjected to the strokes of these rods , and the force and rapidity with which they should be applied , might be prescribed by the Judge : thus everything which is arbitrary might be removed . A public officer , of more responsible character than the common executioner , might preside over the infliction of the punishment ; and when there were many delinquents to be punished , his time might be saved , and the terror of the scene heightened , without increasing the actual suffering, by increasing the number of the machines , and subjecting all the offenders to punishment at the same time . ' " ........ From World Corporal Punishment Research
Some years ago , the English publication "Janus " carried a story featuring an electronic cane .
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