Camford is an old town steeped in tradition, as the attractive Allison Carter soon discovers when she is accepted as a graduate research student at All Saints Ladies College. She is surprised to learn that corporal punishment appears to be one of the more active traditions, and that all newcomers to the ladies college are publicly birched by the High Mistress. Prior to her scheduled birching, however, Allison finds her shapely bottom on the receiving end of the cane several times. Firstly, she is tricked into being caned by her tutor's wife and his friend, David, with whom she later spends a night of passion. Then, the following morning, she is caned by the head porter for staying out all night without notifying him, and a third caning is administered by the High Mistress some days later for the same offence.

Although painful, the highly-sexed Allison finds these punishments to be very arousing, and she subsequently has sexual encounters with JJ, a member of the college rugby team, and Joanna, a fellow student who had soothed her after they had been caned together. During her public birching over a vaulting horse by the High Mistress, Allison experiences an intense orgasm and later spends the night with Joanna.

Some days later, the cane is put to good use once again when, following some spirited high jinks involving a policeman's helmet, Joanna and another friend of Allison's receive ten strokes of the cane from the local schoolmistress and her assistant whilst Allison herself is caned once again by the head porter.