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I used to see a lot of movies and such that implied being spanked as a child could lead one into enjoying it sexually as an adult. Now, this isn't true of all people who are spanked, but it could be that way for some people.

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Yeah "Exit to Eden" is a humorous example. The guy was aroused by his attractive nanny spanking him when he was a child, and he goes on to want that as an adult. I think people don't want to believe that this happens, but it does for some people (not everyone of course and maybe only a few). I don't know what the trigger is exactly. I remember one day years and years ago I watched as another child was paddled in school (another humiliating practice is that sometimes kids are spanked in front of other children). I remember thinking how humiliating it was and how he could not possibly refuse to comply (those aren't the words I would have used then, but I can verbalize it now). That notion of forced humiliation / lack of power, etc. somehow got tangled into sexuality for me. And I've had to work to push that aside so that I can have interests in normal sexual intimacy (a little spice is fine, but I wouldn't want to have an unhealthy level of interest in deviant practices!).

WARNING: Imagine a giant triggermark covering this entire next section!

Some people don't believe that adult sexual arousal by corporal punishment has anything to do with childhood experiences. I think that people who have never seen spanking as sexual may not be be aware that the childhood connection is strongly evident in corporal punishment pornography. That type of pornography consists of pictures of people being spanked (obviously) as well as stories. It's in the stories that the childhood connection is most obvious. Usually the story consists of someone doing something "bad," being scolded for it and ultimately spanked. In fact, if a parent were to scold their child and spank him/her, then write a description of what had just occurred, that description could then be published on a corporal punishment pornography site without its even being necessary to embellish it. Though typically the story is embellished by making the spanking last a long time, using various implements, adding descriptions of arousal during the spanking and sometimes incorporating sexual intercourse, etc. afterward. Usually the story is rewritten so that the participant is actually an adult (i.e. the wife being scolded for having cheated or having not done the housework, etc. and then being spanked). Or else the participant seems to be a child but is really an adult -- that's where you get the Catholic schoolgirl / Daddy's-little-girl stories. The doing something bad / being scolded is the foreplay and the spanking is the sex act in these stories (though sometimes it's followed by real sex). Where else would a taste for this sort of thing come from if not through childhood experience? I doubt seriously that someone wakes up one day and says "oh now, I think I'll be aroused by being scolded and spanked." It just doesn't seem likely to me.

I don't think this type of sexuality is a healthy adult interest. In my opinion sexual pleasure should be derived from a relationship of equals in which you each take pleasure in the other physically/emotionally and without a need for roleplay/power games, etc. That's why I'm opposed to any practice that could possibly stimulate that type of interest (even if the possibility is low) and why I bring up the topic (so people might be more aware of it).

My continued apologies to all who are offended by this topic.

Thanks, Sidony