Breast spanking/caning stories?

Mmm...I think its likely that those kids would have hurt themselves some other way even if they'd never seen Superman. Since human prehistory we've told stories about people performing superhuman feats, and I suspect that there's always been that one kid who hurt himself trying to play the part of Hercules or Thor...and even without fictional icons to emulate, little boys love climbing tall rocks and running heedlessly through the woods.

I agree that art can have a very insidious effect on culture (particularly in regards to the normalization of behaviors previously seen as unusual or extreme), but little kids are kind of an outlier.


Here I think you're on to something. Never having slept with a teenaged boy, I can't comment on how porn effects their expectations and attitudes toward sex, but women are also effected by this. I had an affair with a woman (well out of her teens, mind you) who seemed to base her entire sexual persona off of porn films. She put on this ridiculously high pitched voice, narrated everything either of us did, and asked me to do inane, showy things that you would only ever do to please a voyeur.

I wonder if she did that on her own initiative, or if what I saw was the result of past lovers asking/pushing her to be that way. Either way, it was awkward as all hell and not terribly enjoyable.


I would generally agree with this statement. I don't think its the artist's responsibility to make sure that their audience knows fantasy from reality, though. It seems more reasonable to ask that the readers themselves exercise common sense when allowing their reading/watching material to inform their worldview.

Thank you Jools for this comment. I rest my case!

I agree that such stories would be pure fiction, but I sure would not want to read them.

Jools,

You reminded me of something I watched the other day that really impressed me. I watched my DVD of the new movie The Three Stooges. At the end of the movie the two people making the movie came on and showed the 'rubber tools' that were used in hitting one another. Also, the eye poking was shown to be just above the eyes on the forehead. One of them said, "kids, please don't poke someone in the eyes as it is very dangerous. Play safe at home."