This week Pandora is telling the story of Pamela, who grew up an only child in the 1950s. One afternoon she’d been playing a game with a visiting friend when one of her mother’s ornaments was knocked off a shelf and broke, catching the attention of her formidable mother – and her mother’s leather strap. Of course, this wasn’t the only time Pamela was spanked by her mother – and nor was hers the only family in which these punishments were used. She finds, in hindsight, that these stories raise in her a flicker of excitement, and wonders if they had the same effect on some of her peers. This film is both a hot spanking story and an exploration of how childhood experiences that were at the time distressing can, in adulthood, evolve into something else
