Marketing.
It's like coffee cup sizes, one large is not the same as another, different sellers and makers will have different definitions.
Supposedly it's to do with how hard they hit (amount of force vs square area of impact) which is controlled by lots of variables.
- A longer cane has more spring at the far end but may not accelerate as well.
- A thinner cane will go faster and deliver its impact over a smaller square area (a spankee will bleed very quickly that way) but has less weight.
- A denser material will gain more inertia and impart more force but travel slower due to being heavier.
There's no ISO 9000 standard for canes so each seller basically makes it up based of their empirical impressions. Some will sell longer, thinner canes, others shorter and heavier and all of them will try to convince you that the cheapest sourced material is best and anything that has a tariff on it is going to be 'special premium.'
There's going to be Dragons Bite canes and Black Talon canes at a wild, speculative guess. It's when a website decides to sell one in Pink and call it the 'woman's cane' that I'll know they're bankrupt of ideas.
CP in schools in the UK ended long before uniformity and the only national standard the population wanted to employ across the whole school system was a universal ban. Eventually even conservative minds caught on to the idea that beating a child with poor handwriting doesn't cure their dyslexia.
Since they were only niche products manufactured by bored saddle-makers and furniture companies there was no production drive to adhere to set patterns or decide that X amount of Netwons per cm^2 of skin should represent the initial line.
Since I keep my fetish and my engineering job separate I couldn't imagine anything more unsexy and boring but that's just me, anyone else is entirely at liberty if that's their fetish - I know there's a few on this site for whom it is.
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