Naked in Borstal

By Endorphin


Copyright 2025 by Endorphin, all rights reserved

[6,150 words]

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This story is intended for adults only. It contains depictions of forced nudity, spanking, and sexual activity of preteen and young teen children for the purpose of punishment. None of the behaviors in this story should be attempted in real life, as that would be harmful and/or illegal. If you are not of legal age in your community to read or view such material, please leave now. 

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Introduction

Hello, my name is Richard Atkins and I hate to have to admit it but around 60 years ago, as a fourteen and a half year old teenager I was sent to Borstal for twenty months. It was all very embarrassing and not at all a pleasant way to spend nearly 2 years, but I certainly learnt from the experience!

Although it was only the start of October, many shops were selling fireworks to anyone, irrespective of their age, in the run‑up to Bonfire Night (November 5th). Despite my lower middle‑class upbringing I was a bit of a tearaway at that time. I had bought a couple of rockets and out of pure devilment set one off in a residential street to fly along just above the road. About 100 yards ahead of me there happened to be a milkman doing his rounds with his horse‑drawn cart well stocked with glass bottles of milk. Concentrating on the rocket, I didn’t really notice him but he’d just got off the cart and was delivering to an adjacent house when I released the rocket, which exploded with a loud bang and a shower of coloured sparks just behind the cart.

The horse, which had been placidly standing there, not tethered as it was used to the stop‑start nature of the milk round, was spooked by this unexpected explosion and bolted, pulling the cart behind him. The cart’s wheels hit the kerb and the whole cart toppled over leaving behind a trail of smashed bottles and lots of spilt milk – to say that the milkman was annoyed would be an understatement! He rushed out and grabbed me by my left ear while several passers‑by grabbed my arms. I had no means of escape. It was just my luck that the house to which milk had just been delivered was one of the few at the time with a telephone, which was used to call the police.

It only took a few minutes for a policeman to arrive and after a short briefing from the milkman and bystanders I was formally arrested and taken to the Police Station where I was thrown into a cell while they did their paperwork and called my parents. My father was at work but my mother arrived, as an adult was required to be with me during questioning and at the Court. That afternoon I was up in front of the Magistrates in the Juvenile Court. There were 4 charges against me: ‘Causing a Public Nuisance’; ‘Discharging a firework in a public street’; ‘Putting the life of a horse at risk’ and ‘Criminal Damage’ (the broken bottles and lost milk, as well as the severely damaged cart). With so many witnesses it was no surprise that I was convicted, but the Magistrates wanted to know more about my background before sentencing me. I was therefore temporarily bailed into the care of my parents.

Once home I was sent straight to my room to await my father’s return from work. Having been spanked several times before by Dad I thought I knew what was coming! Dad, having been fully briefed by Mum, entered my room and pulled the straight‑backed chair into the middle of the room. He sat down on the chair and made me stand before him and give my side of the story; I dared not try to lie and owned up to my guilt, although I did say that I had not realized that the horse and cart were there.

I was made to remove my shoes, trousers and shirt (as was normal for punishment by Dad). Dad pulled my underpants up tightly to lie smoothly over my buttocks with no slack. He had me lay over his knees where he held me down with a hand planted firmly in the middle of my back. I lost count of how many swats he gave me as he spanked me with his strong, rough workman’s right hand for several minutes.

My buttocks were already aching a lot from this treatment when I was released from Dad’s lap and made to stand before him again, now with my hands on my head. He reached out and yanked my pants down to my knees, from where they fell to my ankles and I was instructed to remove them completely.

I stood there naked apart from my socks, with my well‑developed penis and scrotum directly in his line of sight. Oh, how embarrassing! He’d never totally stripped me before for a spanking. I was soon back over his knees but this time my exposed genitals fell between his opened legs, which he then closed together trapping and squashing them to add to my pain.

I was given 25 swats on each of my already red buttocks with a solid wood‑backed bath brush. I had been determined not to make a sound as Dad punished me but this onslaught was just too much to bear and I was soon blubbing – but Dad just carried on until, by the end, I was almost screaming with the pain in my tortured bum that seemed to be on fire. Dad must have been very annoyed, as I’d ever been hit that much before.

Dad finally released me and ordered me to put on my pyjama trousers. The flannelette material felt rough on my well‑spanked buttocks, despite it really being quite a soft cloth. I was denied the usual pyjama jacket and sent straight to bed without an evening meal. I usually sleep on my back but that night had to sleep on my side as it hurt too much to have my very sore bum pressed into the mattress.

A week after my first appearance at the Court, I was back again for sentencing. The Magistrates had found nothing in my background to soften my sentence, which was for twenty months in Borstal. Since I was under 18 and still a Juvenile with no funds of my own, my parents had to pay for the damages to the Cart and its stock of milk. They were very annoyed as my father was not well paid as a building labourer, all be it a foreman.

I lived a few miles outside Liverpool but was sent to H.M. Borstal Ravenmoor in North Yorkshire. This was miles from anywhere – way out on the Moors; should a boy manage somehow to escape there was nowhere to hide and no public transport for a rapid getaway, so the Borstal’s guard dogs would soon track him down! On his return he’d be put in solitary confinement and be subjected to severe corporal punishment – Borstal style.

It was quite late at night when I, along with another convicted boy, arrived at Ravenmoor and each of us boys was just locked in a separate holding cell overnight in the Induction Unit. The cell had a bed with a mattress, pillow and a single blanket. On a shelf there were two single‑serving packets of corn flakes, some tea bags, strips of sugar and a small carton of milk. An accompanying note indicated that these were supper and breakfast for me.

Having relieved myself into the very exposed toilet bowl in the corner of the cell I ate the inadequate supper and, exhausted from the journey, lay down on the bed. Before falling asleep I heard the sounds of more boys arriving and being similarly locked into their own holding cells. The next thing I heard was a loud bell ringing to wake us. I did still have my watch and found that it was now 7am. I got up, splashed some water on my face to wake myself properly and ate breakfast. The real action of induction started soon after 8am when the day shift of warders had arrived.

Induction

We were processed one by one; I was the second boy of the group to be processed. I can only assume that the other boys were treated the same as I was and can only record what happened to me. From my holding cell I was taken to the main desk where my property (that had been taken from me at the Court) was displayed on the counter. I had to confirm that it was all there and sign the listing of it before it was bagged up and locked in a safe area. I was photographed (head and shoulders only) and fingerprinted again, then issued with a Prisoner ID card which I was to carry at all times on a cord around my neck. I could see from it that I had been allocated a Prisoner number of B5603RK.

The next stop was for a strip search. One by one my clothes (including shoes and socks) were removed, checked by the Officers to see that no contraband was hidden in them and put away in a box with my prisoner number on it (this would be stored and its contents returned to me on my release). Eventually even my Y‑fronts had to be removed and I was standing there very embarrassingly totally naked before the four Officers. I’d never before been fully naked in front of anyone – except for my recent chastisement by my father – since I was about 8 years old! I now had to submit to internal checks to see that I wasn’t hiding anything in my orifices. One of the Officers looked inside my mouth and then roughly pushed my foreskin back to check there. Finally a gloved finger was inserted into my anus. Nothing was found so I was then taken, still totally naked, to see the barber.

The chair was very different from ones I was used to and restraints were applied to hold me in it as soon as I sat down. Almost all my curly blond hair, of which I was so proud, was shorn off leaving me with only very short stubble there (a Number 1 Crew Cut). When I complained about losing my curly locks I was told that all inmates had their hair cut like that throughout their time in confinement for reasons of conformity and hygiene (it stopped head lice which were quite common in those days, particularly among kids of the lower classes who also happened to form the majority of inmates).

As soon as my haircut was complete I was blindfolded and additional restraining blocks stopped me moving my head. An electric motor re‑configured the chair into a sort of bed, with me lying almost flat on it. I felt my lower lip being grasped at either side by some instruments with which it was then pulled back, exposing its inner side. I heard a buzzing sound and then felt what seemed like dozens of needles pricking the tender flesh inside my lip while a very nasty taste filled my mouth. I later discovered that they had tattooed my prisoner number inside my lip. While the tattooist was working in my mouth the barber shaved off all my pubes leaving my whole genital area totally denuded and looking like that of a pre‑pubescent kid. The bed was returned to being a chair, my blindfold and restraints were removed and – still naked – I was taken to have a shower.

The shower room had three separate showerheads on one wall with no dividers between them nor curtains to give any privacy. On the opposite wall was a long bench with a towel placed opposite each showerhead. The water was only lukewarm and I had to use a bar of soap instead of the body wash that I had at home. I was also being embarrassingly watched by two of the warders.

Once I had dried off the two Warders took me along to the medical suite. There I had to sit, still naked, on one of the cold metal chairs in the waiting area until the doctor was ready.

The Medical

To my great embarrassment, the first thing that happened there was to have my naked body comprehensively photographed from every angle. These pictures would remain in my files indefinitely.

I was then quizzed about any ailments that I currently had, or had previously had, weighed, and my height was measured along with my chest, waist and inside leg. These were followed by the usual tests with the icy cold stethoscope (I don’t know how doctors manage to keep the ‘business end’ so constantly cold!)

As he worked, the doctor called out the results to an assistant who noted them on my record forms. I didn’t know it at the time but one of these was a standard form for the doctor to complete as a record of my body and to certify that I was fit to receive the sort of punishments to which all boys could be subjected. This form would forever be available in my general record for any of the Officers to see, while the more detailed forms were confidential to the Medical department.

The doctor started looking very carefully all over my body. He could clearly see some small scars on my face from when I’d scratched at the itchy spots, having caught Chickenpox as a young child. When looking at my arms he commented that he couldn’t see a Smallpox vaccination mark and asked me about it. I didn’t know what vaccinations I’d been given as a baby but did know that most boys in my class at secondary school had a white scar (I knew not for what) on the top of their left arm but I didn’t have one, however I’d never been curious enough to ask my parents about it. I also knew that, soon after starting at that school, a form had been sent home with every boy in my class for parents to complete and return in a sealed envelope. A short while later everyone except me and two other boys were lined up outside the school medical room to be given the first of three injections of a relatively new Salk vaccine against Polio – apparently my parents had refused it for me.

The Borstal doctor now inserted a needle into my right forearm and several vials of blood were collected. I was next required to give a urine sample. It can be hard enough at any time to urinate on demand but even more so when one is totally naked and being embarrassingly watched closely by the doctor, (male) nurse, the assistant keeping the records and the two Warders. The nurse turned on a tap at the sink and the sound of running water did the trick so that I nearly filled the collecting jar.

The doctor prodded and poked all over me, eventually reaching my genitals. My long foreskin was roughly forced back again, stretching my frenulum uncomfortably. He fingered this, eliciting an erection that made me even more mortified to be erect in front of them – but more embarrassment was to come as he inserted his gloved finger into my anus and felt around for my prostate. He so stimulated it that I involuntarily shot out a load of semen. This had obviously been the object as the male nurse expertly caught it in a jar to later be examined under the microscope to see how fertile I was.

If you are a male, you will well know that immediately after ejaculation your balls are more sensitive than usual. The doctor lost no time in taking them in his hands, feeling all over them and then giving them a very tight squeeze – eliciting a cry of pain from me.

Having examined, handled and noted as much as possible about my body I was next given 5 vaccination injections into the muscles of my arms, thighs and buttocks. These turned out to be individual shots against Diphtheria, Tetanus, Whooping Cough (Pertussis), Polio and Chickenpox.

As I said, unlike most boys and girls at the time, I’d not had a smallpox vaccination as a baby. A quantity of the liquid was put onto my upper left arm just above the middle of it and scratched well in with a special tool, looking a bit like a miniature garden rake, that had three tines to drag across the liquid, ensuring that most of it entered my arm through the scratches, where it would later produce a large, puckered white scar. As this process was being repeated on my right arm the nurse asked the doctor if one insertion each side was going to be enough to give me full protection since I’d not been primed with a vaccination as a baby – unlike almost every other boy they’d seen for several years. The doctor replied that it probably was, but there would be no harm in giving me an extra insertion each side, which he did so that, when healed, I ended up with two very large Smallpox vaccination scars at the top of each arm!

A fairly new vaccine called BCG (to protect against Tuberculosis) was being given to children in the 4th year at my school. I was in the 3rd year and so this had not yet been offered to me. The Borstal doctor gave me two BCG injections into each arm just under the skin a little above my elbows. When these later settled down, I would find two more permanent large white scars on each arm where these injections had been given.

Circumcision

After being vaccinated I was told to lie on the couch where I was strapped down tightly. The head end of the couch was then raised so that I was looking down at my crotch and I was instructed to watch closely what was being done for me. (Note that the doctor said it was being ‘done for me’ and not ‘done to me’; something I didn’t appreciate one little bit at the time but with hindsight I realize that it was indeed for my long‑term good despite the accompanying severe pain).

The doctor painfully seized the tip of my long foreskin in some forceps and folded it right back. The nurse cleaned the inside with antiseptic wipes to remove the inevitable build‑up of smegma before painting the whole area, from my slightly ‘innie’ navel to half way down my thighs, with a dark brown antiseptic. A sterile sheet was put over the area and my penis was pulled through a hole in it.

With the forceps again holding my foreskin right back and my penis lying over my stomach area, the doctor proceeded to carve out my frenulum, undercutting it on each side and then across the ends. Because I’d not been given any anaesthetic this cutting was very painful and I was crying out for it to stop. Far from stopping, the nurse simply put a gag in my mouth to silence me. Once the cord of the frenulum had been removed, the groove it left was bleeding a lot. The doctor used an almost red hot ‘V’ shaped metal block to cauterise the groove, sealing the bleeding points and making me scream into my gag from the extreme pain as the heat seared deep into my tender glans. What I would only learn much later, when all was healed, was that it was also deliberately destroying the nerves in that area, so I would never again get any sexual pleasure from there.

With his scalpel, the doctor then cut neatly through the inner foreskin, just a couple of millimetres behind my glans, before the nurse tightly pulled the rest of the foreskin well forward over the glans. The doctor marked the location of the underlying glans rim on it and then, with tension released, used scissors to roughly cut away the outer layer just behind this line, peeling off the entire inner and outer foreskin along with a bit of my shaft skin.

The two cut edges were stitched together, pulling the skin on my penis very tight and even making my scrotum lift a bit. I would later find that using scissors rather than a scalpel meant that the cut line was somewhat jagged rather than being a neat circle around the penis shaft. Although sat in the sulcus rather than half way up my shaft, the resulting scar was therefore jagged, rough, quite wide and very prominent – proclaiming to all who saw it that my penis had been deliberately and roughly modified!

The final thing that was done to my penis was to cut my piss slit (which I now know to be called the meatus) much wider open causing yet more pain. A dressing was applied, temporarily hiding what had been so painfully done to my prized possession.

When my gag was removed and I was released from the couch I protested saying, “There was nothing wrong with my foreskin, I didn’t need ... didn’t want to be circumcised. Why have you done this to me?”

The doctor said, “It’s a Borstal Rule that all boys must be vaccinated and circumcised on entry. It keeps you cleaner and healthier as well as protecting the whole Borstal community. It also ensures conformity, stopping one source of bullying.” Then taking hold of my balls and again squeezing them painfully he continued, “You should think yourself lucky I only removed your useless foreskin and didn’t cut these off as well. If I had my way, I’d castrate all you criminal boys so that you can’t reproduce and flood the country with more criminals.”

I had previously obtained lots of nightly pleasure from masturbating with my long, but loose, foreskin stimulating my glans as I slid it back and forth across the sensitive coronal rim. I would discover that this radical circumcision had made masturbation difficult and no longer very pleasurable – the real reason they so radically circumcised all inmates!

Hospital Cell

With the medical finished, Warders took me upstairs into a part of the Borstal hospital wing reserved for newly circumcised boys. The cell that I was put into had a transparent door so that I continued to have absolutely no privacy. The none‑to‑comfy looking single bed was bare apart from a mattress and pillow. On it there was a pile of bed linen (two sheets, a pillow case, blanket and towel – but still no clothing!) and three bags. One bag contained toiletries – body wash, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste, comb, disposable razor and a roll of toilet paper, while the second had a plastic plate, mug and cutlery. The third bag had some foodstuff, including a 1‑pint carton of milk, a one‑portion box of cereal, tea bags, coffee, sugar and a bar of chocolate.

As, with some difficulty, I made my bed (a job that Mum usually did for me at home), I took stock of the room. A small table, a plastic chair, a doorless shelving unit for my things, a fixed metal washbasin with a steel mirror above it and a stainless steel toilet basin, with no proper seat. There was no curtain around it and, being directly opposite the door, anyone looking in would be able to see me doing my business. I was used to all the usual home comforts with the bath, shower and toilet all behind lockable doors. Not since I was a little boy being toilet trained had I been seen having a shit (except just once accidentally by one of my parents when I was aged about 8 and forgot to lock the door; not the world and his dog as was the case here) – all so horrible and embarrassing, but then the aim of Borstal was to give you such a shock that you’d want to reform so as to never have to come back! I would certainly learn my lesson there and never again offended.

What I didn’t know was that down in the medical room the doctor and nurse were tidying up and preparing to do the same things to another boy. As he tipped my removed foreskin into the medical waste, the nurse commented, “I think that’s one of the largest amounts of foreskin we’ve ever cut off a boy. You did a very good job there and he’s really going to miss it!”

The doctor replied, “Indeed, I think I excelled myself with that one; he was such an attractive lad that I really wanted to mess him up! His smallpox vaccination scars will be so prominent on his arms. The BCG ones should also be satisfyingly large, and always be clearly visible below short shirt sleeves.”

“The circumcision scar will also stand out as I made sure it wouldn’t be a neat, narrow, feint one but ugly, jagged and prominent. He’ll really notice the tightness when he gets his first erection; it should be very uncomfortable for him – even quite painful with a bit of luck! I’ll be having a look at him in a couple of days to see how he’s progressing and, of course, will get a good idea of the final result when I take his stitches out in two weeks time. Are we ready for the next boy? I want to see if I can skin him even more thoroughly!”

Upstairs, my bed making was interrupted when a Warder appeared outside the door and pushed some papers under it. There was a booklet entitled, ‘Borstal Rules – To be obeyed at all times by inmates’; another sheet was for me to order my meals, giving a choice of three main courses and two desserts each day for the rest of the week. According to what had already been filled in on it, I was in cell ‘H-W2-11’ (I’d later understand that it meant Hospital Wing – Ward 2 – cell 11).

They had taken away my watch with my clothes and other possessions; no clock was in sight but I estimated that about an hour and a half after I was put there another naked boy with a bandaged penis was brought past my door and I heard a neighbouring cell door slam shut. After a further similar time a fourth boy was likewise locked in a nearby cell. It was clear from the bandages on their penises that they too had just been circumcised.

When I was able to talk to the group during exercise time, two said that they previously had a fully working foreskin that had been sliced off them for no medical reason at all – just like mine! All resented having this done to them. Things were slightly different though for the third boy. He was Jewish and had been circumcised at 8 days old as his religion required. However, the doctor here noted that, having been done as a baby, he still had some inner foreskin and a frenulum; so the doctor cut them off too, further modifying his penis to fairly closely match what had so cruelly been done to ours.

The Showers & Toilets

There was a shower room, with no external door, at the end of the Ward which, after the first two days, we were required to use every morning after breakfast. Unlike school, where one had some limited privacy in the showers, the room was totally open with shower heads mounted on 5 poles – six heads to each pole. We were thus in very close proximity to 5 other naked inmates and could, of course, clearly see all the others around their poles too – there was no way to hide and there was also always at least one Officer watching us shower. Oh, the embarrassment – especially if one got a boner! It was also perfectly clear that every boy had been vaccinated and circumcised.

In an adjacent toilet room there was a long trough urinal able to accommodate up to 10 boys at a time. On the opposite side was a row of 5 toilet bowls with no additional door, nor dividers between them so anyone could see you having your shit. For a teen boy like me who, being in puberty at the time, was quite shy of having his naked body seen, let alone being seen ‘doing his business’, this was an absolute nightmare – but of course, all part of the Borstal’s object of breaking us down and controlling our every move to make us compliant and better citizens.

Two Days After My Medical

Two days after initial examination and circumcision I was required to see the doctor again. He removed the bandage from my penis and closely examined his handiwork. Pronouncing himself satisfied that all was well with my circumcision, and that my vaccinations for Smallpox and BCG were progressing well, he re‑dressed my penis and dismissed me. I was told to ask to see the doctor if I had any problems with the circumcision or vaccinations but otherwise I would be called after 2 weeks to have the stitches removed. At this point I was given instructions and more materials to change the dressings for myself every two days. I was also given some XXL condoms to wear in the showers if the dressing was not being changed at that time.

Stitch Removal

When my stitches were removed at the 2‑week mark, there was slight bleeding from a few places and the doctor applied a light dressing that I was to remove the next day and have no dressings thereafter. With the stitches out, and before re‑dressing the wound, my circumcised penis was photographed for the records. For the rest of my time in Borstal frequent photos were taken of my naked body (or parts thereof) that I found very embarrassing, especially when my drastically modified genitals were involved. Even to this day I don’t like photos to show my penis, although I am now reasonably content with being circumcised – even though it takes me ages to reach orgasm and I get very little pleasure on the way – orgasm though, when it eventually comes, is actually more enjoyable than when I had a foreskin and I now ‘shoot’ further.

For the remainder of my month in the induction unit’s hospital ward the doctor examined my penis and vaccinations each week to check on progress of the healing.

We had daily exercise periods, morning and afternoon where our naked bodies were on close display not only to the other boys in the medical unit but also to those in one of the regular cell blocks that overlooked it. It was clear that the warders enjoyed our embarrassment at being naked and on display to them and dozens of other lads looking out of their cell windows.

In a Regular Cell

After 4 weeks of being naked in the ‘goldfish bowl’ like environment of cells with transparent doors, and with nothing particular to do but read books; the doctor confirmed that my circumcision and vaccinations were sufficiently healed for me to leave the Hospital Ward. I was also no longer to have a dressing on my penis. I was therefore moved that afternoon to a regular cell in one of the House Blocks.

I had to strip my hospital bed, fold my bed linen and leave it in a neat pile on the bed. I was provided with a large, heavy-duty transparent plastic bag into which to pack all my personal things including my plate, mug, etc. and my foodstuffs. Still totally naked apart from my ID badge, I was led out and through the grounds to House Block 3. Although I couldn’t see most of them, I could feel that the eyes of dozens of other boys in their cells or exercise yards were embarrassingly on me and my naked body.

My new cell HB3-2-15 was very similar to the one in the hospital wing but slightly larger with a solid steel door having a drop-down hatch (controlled from outside) through which things could be passed, and a small peephole window – some degree of privacy at last! However there were bunk beds and I was going to have to share with another inmate. The lower bunk bed was fully made, presumably therefore that of my new cellmate. On the bare mattress of the upper bed was a pile of bedclothes, identical to the minimalist set in the hospital cell. Next to these was another pile containing two pairs of thin shorts (with elasticated waists), two sleeveless vests and a pair of pumps – a form of slippers with a canvas upper and rubber sole.

There was neither underwear nor socks – indeed we were never to be allowed to wear anything more than this minimalist regulation clothing. The shorts and vests were bright orange and printed on the back in large black letters was ‘HM Borstal Ravenmoor’. We’d really stand out well if we did manage to escape! Furthermore, it was very cold on the moors at night and our thin, skimpy clothing would not keep one warm enough to avoid the very real possibility of being frozen to death.

I was told that we must continue to sleep naked to allow our day clothes to air – so come what may, my cellmate and I were going to get a daily eye-full of each other’s bodies and modified genitals.

As with the hospital cell, the toilet bowl was not screened in any way and was clearly visible through the hatch or peephole in the door (or if the door was open). My cellmate and I would also have no privacy from one another when doing our business! He was not there when I arrived as he was having lessons in the education department so I quickly took advantage of being able to have a shit in private before he returned.

I quickly put on a vest and shorts to cover my nakedness. However, having had nothing other than a tight bandage in contact with my exposed glans, the shorts rubbed on it as I moved around making my bed. The feeling in my glans was very strange; the rubbing of the cotton shorts was uncomfortable – almost painful – but at the same time it caused my penis to stiffen somewhat. This in turn resulted in stronger rubbing against the cloth and increased discomfort. Eventually the discomfort and stimulation balanced out enough for my penis to cease erecting any more. It was only when I ceased having to move about making the bed and putting things away that I was also able to lose my erection. ‘Thank goodness,’ I thought, ‘It would kill me for my new cellmate to see me with an erection; he might think I was gay!’

Each floor had a shower room very much larger than that in the Hospital Wing. It had six open pole-showers, each with six heads around the pole – this time there were even more boys to have to share and be seen naked! Outside of our cell we were required to be fully dressed, except when going to/from the compulsory showers first thing in the morning, when we had to still be completely naked and carrying our towel, soap/body wash, etc. by our side. As before, there would always be at least one Warder watching us showering.

The toilet room next to the shower room was also very similar to that in the Hospital Block, although much larger to accommodate more boys. It had a long open trough urinal, toilet bowls with no doors or dividers, and some washbasins. We could use these at any time when out of our cell, including en-route to the showers if we’d forgotten to go in our cell. Woe betides anyone who pissed in the shower! However, if we used the toilet bowls here for a shit we could be seen by many more other boys at a time!

Some while later, when I had my first session in the gym I found that we had to do it ‘gymnos’ (i.e. totally naked) in the fashion of ancient Greece. Yet more opportunity to embarrass us with nakedness!

For most of the rest of my time at Borstal, I was glad to be able to wear at least the shorts to cover my genitals. However even quite minor infractions of the rules led to some form of corporal punishment, most of it applied to our naked bodies with as many onlookers as possible. Not just painful but very embarrassing too!

Although the 20 months seemed to go quite slowly, the time eventually came for me to leave Ravenmoor and I was given back my regular clothes to wear. Even this was still done in such a way as to be as embarrassing as possible in that I had to completely strip off my Borstal clothes and stand naked in front of the Warders while they fetched my box of clothes. When I finally walked out of the Borstal into the real world I had been changed completely from the tearaway that I had been, into a well behaved citizen with a respect for others, particularly my seniors.






   
   
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