Shades of Singapore: Sister Sarah Balfour's Memoirs of Judicial Caning in South Africa, Vol. I [Paperback]

Angus Balfour (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 24, 1998

In pre-war South Africa, Sarah Balfour, a nursing Sister, administered to young women and girls awaiting punishment in the court system. This provocative memoir tells in great detail of Sister Sarah's job and "good fortune" of examining girls prior to their punishments-- often canings and strappings while tied naked to the whipping bench.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Blue Moon Books; 1ST edition (April 24, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562010719
• ISBN-13: 978-1562010713
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,763,012 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Verrrry compulsive fetishism - well, ok!, July 12, 2002

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Michael Callaghan (Jersey City, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shades of Singapore: Sister Sarah Balfour's Memoirs of Judicial Caning in South Africa, Vol. I (Paperback)

This has to be Balfour's greatest, fully focused magnum opus. Every chapter is one girl after another being paddled, all sorts of girls - rich ones, poor ones, fat ones, well dressed ones, white and black ones, and on and on... straddling the 'horse' and being paddled or birched until she pleads for mercy. And over 300 pages of it! I should warn casual observers that this is probably going to be too much for them to enjoy beyond the first 100 pages, but if you have a prediliction for either corporal punishment or obsessive fetishist pornography, go for it! Considering these Blue Moon titles go in and out of print, you never know when you'll see another Balfour when this edition is gone, and buying it now sure beats rifling through used bookstores for a spine-creased copy.

I'll sum it up this way: Six or seven hours of flippant descriptions of wailing women having their bottoms striped. No affection, no lovemaking, no kissing. No filler, and no pretense.

Sounds good, no?

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars story after story of severe punishment!!, September 28, 1999

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Joe Sinclair (Hammond, Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shades of Singapore: Sister Sarah Balfour's Memoirs of Judicial Caning in South Africa, Vol. I (Paperback)

The author is telling the reader of the opportunities she has had of giving the cane to many deserving bottoms. The psychology behind the punishments are explained as well. I'm more of a fan of the paddle, but these girls are left sobbing more times than not. If you like to read about well deserved punishment of girls, then this is a good book for you!!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Essential Female Caning Book, April 12, 2003

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This review is from: Shades of Singapore: Sister Sarah Balfour's Memoirs of Judicial Caning in South Africa, Vol. I (Paperback)

This is a long series of accounts of the severe caning of deserving young women and is essential reading for anyone interested in this topic. All the caning is performed by the female author or by other women so it is exclusively F/F. However, the accounts do suffer from repetition.