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This sort of spanking was almost surely considered and understood as punishment. Of course, there are those people who draw sadistic (is that sexual?) pleasure from punishing others; but it was punishment. - However, one
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While I do not know of a source there was a book (which I have since forgotten the name of) that I read in which one scene the maid is spanked by the lord of the house. She had failed to clean the man's bedroom at which point he spanked her. I belive this book was set in the 1880s though written in
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the last ten years. Certainly it is unclear wether the man was doing this as punishment or for sexual means- I would suggest it was the latter. Certanly when confronted with the question of losing her job or a painful spanking a woman would chose a spanking- given how hard jobs were to obtain.
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I don't think it's about the U.S.... Unless the person meant, 'with a ninth grade education or less?' Which I don't think s/he did, because it's not terribly common for maids to be less than 18 in the U.S. Actually, the last three sentences really need to be cited.
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I am writing a historical fiction. would it be weird if she did everything? if so is there a name for such a person. she would be a royal maid.
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