bendover:
I agree. Also, the readers are sometimes very choosy in what they want to see in a story as far as who is the spankee and spanker.
To expand on that I have noticed that although you would expect people who are into kinky things to be more open minded than vanilla people often they are just as close minded, sometimes even more so. They often think that their particular kink is OK but anybody else's is disgusting or perverted.
For example, if they are into adult spanking they call anybody who likes to read stories about people under 18 being spanked a pedophile. Or the BDSM people who put down those who are into spanking as being wimps. Or alternately the spankos who think that BDSM is horrible and should be outlawed even when it is consensual.
As far as I am concerned it is "different strokes for different folks". Don't put down anybody else because their turn on is different than yours. There is no right or wrong in matters of taste.
On an entirely different matter. Is it possible to cross reference authors' names with their member names? For example, JohnS47 mentioned his stories. Under what name?