What Is A Spanking Story?

Heh, heh, heh. You said deviated!

These are the stories I like best, and I think that most of my stories are like this. At least I try to make them interesting enough that the spanking is secondary. The spanking scene is the hardest one to write and becoming the hardest one for me to read too these days, so I would bore myself to sleep trying to compose a story solely about that.


I love that spanking in McLintock. I even bought the movie. John Wayne may be a spanko, but his movie roles don't necessarily provide evidence of it. He's just an actor, but his writers and directors may be.

Goodness me! I didn't realise it was so complicated! I have to say I have never thought about what a spanking story is or ought to be. I write them ... or I thought I did ... and LSF is good enough to publish them. I'm sure Februs or flopsy would tell me if I was getting the wrong end of the stick ....

What am I saying! The wrong end of the stick???? Is that a spanking stick??? Or maybe it's for bdsm ...

HELP!

Interesting discussion. My tag line is that I don't write spanking stories...I write stories with spanking. What that means is that first of all it's a story with a protagonist, an antagonist and conflict. The spanking aspect is what propels the plot or resolves the conflict. But it's given a fairly high prominence or it would not be of much interest to a readership like this one. But actually the spanking aspect could have been replaced by something else and the story would still be intact. I once wrote a riff on "A Tale of Two Cities" called "Anne of Wulfstedt." Basically I replaced the guillotine with a public birching, but the plot McGuffin stayed the same.

Although it has all been stated, I must say when I write, my first priority truly is the plot, characters, setting and conflict- where the spanking usually takes place and resolution. I especially enjoy developing my setting. I write stories that contain spanking for this audience. I could write mainstream stories, but I value this international community and enjoy the level of interaction this site fosters. I get few complaints on my stories that contain spankings and I get the satisfaction of exercising my creativity and sharing my love of travel and art. I care not that the red and purple dotted stories go beyond spanking, I enjoy reading those too. Let's not get tied up in semantics, dear friends. I've noted quite a few stories with a white dot cover content regarding spanking-a memory or discussion of a former spanking or future one; it is not a turn off for me. There is not other site like this. Revel in it!
Islandcarol

Well, I understand that, my point was simply that an account featuring the recipient being struck on his/her thighs, in lieu of his/her buttocks rather than along with them, wouldn't be a "spanking story" from my perspective, since a "spank" by definition lands on the victim's posterior.

Hence saying something like "You're going to get your bottom spanked" is actually redundant, since "You're going to get spanked" has the exact same meaning. However, "You're going to get your bottom smacked" isn't redundant, since a person could be smacked on various parts of his/her body, even though "You're going to get smacked" might be assumed to imply a spanking (smacking on the buttocks). Of course, many Library authors (myself included) nonetheless obviously enjoy using "spank," "spanked" and "spanking" in the same sentence with "bottom," and especially "bare bottom," don't they?

As to the "No Spanking" designation, I was referring to that white circle symbol which indicates that there isn't any direct spanking activity occurring within any particular writing. I've read (and sometimes myself written) stories within which there was at least one spanking described in exposition (rather than dialogue), occasionally in considerable detail, yet it was classified as "No Spanking," which I've found to be perplexing.

Often it seems that verb tense affects that designation, for some reason:

"The boy was quickly put across his mother's lap, then promptly paddled soundly on his bare behind with her wooden spoon."

"The boy had quickly been put across his mother's lap, then had promptly been paddled soundly on his bare behind with her wooden spoon."

The first example (past tense) would clearly be given the F/M symbol (pink box atop blue one), while the second one (past perfect tense) might however be given the "No Spanking" one (white circle), although to me it's still exposition describing the boy being maternally spanked, even if it had occurred earlier than the story's timeline. (If the walloping had merely been indicated via dialogue, then I'd agree with the "No Spanking" designation.)

Well, of course it's up to the individual validator how a literary work is classified, and I'm merely expressing occasional puzzlement--it's hardly a critical issue, simply one that I find interesting to ponder... --C.K.

To be fair, that's only true by some definitions, of the many that are a single Google search away. The verbiage I see in many definitions is "especially on the buttocks".

But we usually don't get so pedantic here! Down through history, I'm sure that there have been uncountable unhappy red-thighed kids who would be very surprised to learn that they hadn't actually been spanked.

I agree entirely, the best spanking stories are first and foremost: stories.


It's the same for me. I think it's because the mainstream stories invest time in characters and developing a plot. Too often spanking movies are perfunctory, a basic set up then let's get down to business. Titilation takes precedence over storytelling.

I've often wondered what it would be like if some of the stories in this library were adapted for the screen...

Well not impossible, but highly improbable. Our stories are of the 'spanking story nature' even though many have a good plot beforehand. It's not like McLintock where the story had a totally different scenario. However, I watched Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens and it had a number of canings involved all in the beginning. One really never knows after 50 shades of Gray went to the screen. Some of us would be quite well off if they did.

I'd like to add that Wacher's - The Proposal - is one for the screen if I ever saw one.

By the way, a good question by someone named spankingtheatre.

It's a nom de plume inspired by the theatre between one's own ears. But I do have a fascination with how others might imagine the words that we writers have been able to visualise so vividly.

Which raises an intriguing question, what is more fulfilling: the rich virtual dreamworld of the imagination, or a fully rendered adaption projected directly into our eyes?