Cucking stools and ducking stools were chairs formerly used for punishment of disorderly women, scolds, and dishonest tradesmen in England, Scotland, and elsewhere. They were forms of wyuen pine (“women’s punishment”). Cucking stools were basically exposed public toilets, while ducking stools were chairs suspended over rivers, used for dunking.
They were both instruments of public humiliation and censure.
cucking and ducking stools, a method of punishment by means of humiliation, beating, or death. The cucking stool (also known as a “scolding stool” or a “stool of repentance”) was in most cases a commode or toilet, placed in public view, upon which the targeted person was forced to sit—usually by restraint, and often while being paraded through the town. The consequences of the ducking stool were far more severe. In use in England by the 17th century, the apparatus consisted of a wooden or iron armchair onto which the culprit was strapped. The chair was attached to a long wooden beam, usually located alongside a pond or river, and was lowered into the water. Repeated duckings routinely proved fatal, the victim dying of shock or drowning. ~ Britannica
Cuckservatives are “fiscally conservative” and infected with a cuckoldry transmitted “socially liberal” disease. Perhaps the old form of humiliation can cure some of them.