Goodness.

Okay - let’s say that Bill enjoys being trussed and flogged with a soft suede flogger. Bill enjoys a simple form of submission. Very basic leather/rope trussing.

Jill enjoys being trussed, too, but she wants to feel the genuine pain that can be inflicted only by leather/metal floggers that make indelible marks on her body. Jill is in a TPE relationship. And her bondage is much more extreme. Much, much more extreme.

Bill is the ‘vanilla’ sub - the white-bread-and-mayonnaise sub; the most common, less flavorful and blander sub than Jill who loves only through complete submission.

Can you actually not understand what ‘vanilla’ means in this context? Do you read books often? ‘Vanilla’ is often used as a synonym for ‘plain,’ ‘basic,’ ‘modest,’ &etc.

I shouldn’t say this, as I don’t have one, but maybe you should invest in a good thesaurus? It could help you understand the use of words that may, on the surface, seem to have only one meaning.

I should have read the OP more closely before responding: I cannot imagine how fantasies of children being punished by spanking is a fancy that can be realized beyond sheer imagination.