Sally looked quite fetching, blinking back tears, hands twitching slightly by her sides, standing in front of my desk.  "I hope you've learned your lesson about passing notes in class."

"Yes, sir."

"But now I'm afraid that you need to learn a more serious lesson, about comportment during a discipline session."  I kept my voice mild, and my tone apologetic.  After the first part of our punishment session, Sally had learned better than to argue with me, though.

"Yes, sir."

"I have decided to give you a level 3a, or 3b, punishment. This means either 8 strokes with the medium cane, on the bare bottom …"  I allowed my gaze to fall for a second to her neat triangle of dark brown pubic hair "… or, 8 strokes with the switch, completely naked."  Now I looked for a second at her chest, where the small, hard nipples of her high breasts were just visible through her thin brassiere and short shift, then back into her eyes.  "Which would you prefer?" I inquired politely.

"Prefer?"

"Yes."

"Well … the switch … sir."  I raised my eyebrows.  "I mean, well, " Sally's already-red face blushed deeply.  "Well, the paddling really hurt.  I don't know if I could take the cane.  And I'm not that modest –- " Amazingly, her face got redder still.  "I mean, I mean, I mean it's embarrassing, but I'm not that far from na–-. I mean …"

I held her eyes for a second, and then nodded.  Slowly, she lifted the shift over her head, then walked over to a chair in the corner where and folded it on top of her shorts and panties.  Then, as required, she returned to stand just in front of my desk to remove her brassiere, which she also put on the chair. When she was standing naked in front of my desk, I nodded towards the back wall. "Go fetch the medium cane, please."

Now her face went white.  "But … but –-"

"I asked for your preference; I didn't say I would honor it.  It was one factor that I considered."

"But …" She hunched her shoulders just slightly and bobbed her head a quarter of an inch, clearly indicating her nakedness.

I nodded, and spoke apologetically.  "Yes, I will have to give you additional punishment for removing your clothing without being instructed.  And also for failing to obey me promptly about fetching the cane.  But we can discuss that later. First let's get this part out of the way. Fetch the cane, please."

I was looking straight into her eyes. Sally hesitated less than a second, then turned and walked to take the cane from the wall.