A Poll: Were you spanked as a child?

Although corporal punishment was effectively banned in schools here by the time I reached high schools (we did have one teacher in Year 8 who said that it could still be used in certain cases as long as parental approval was obtained prior to doing it. I wouldn't have minded going over her lap myself) we did have a PE teacher who had no issue with applying his rather large hand to the shorts of anyone who was foolish enough not to do as they were told in his class. He also wasn't adverse to the odd foot up the bum if you wanted to behave like an idiot while he was teaching.

first question -5 second 16 when I was old enough to defend myself, I grew up in a Forster home and the strap was used on the bare bottom, always interested in spanking as far back as I can remember.

Very interesting and fun posts to read through. Nothing I like better than real life experiences, especially from the female members. Ok so, I remember being spanked up till about age 10. Some were otk with hand or paddle, as I got older dad used one of his belts with me bent over the bed. The ones that were the worst were the ones where he came home late from work and I was already in pj's in bed. The skimpy flannel pj bottoms really offered little protection from the belt strap. One I did prepare by putting a paper back book down my pj bottoms. It worked, I wasn't found out. Funny thing is after a while even with the paperback that strap started to really hurt. I would say after 10 maybe up to 13 spankings stopped and other punishments like grounding, taking away things etc took over.


I have been interested in spanking ever since I can remember. I remember that in pre - school (so I was under 5) we were playing this game where a girl (Katie) was in her house and we had to tell Katie what we wanted to do if she let us in. Yep, you guessed it, I said I wanted to spank Katie. I didn't get in, damn!

First question is a 1. I never was spanked. I, along with my siblings, heard the threat: Do I need to take off my belt with Dad's unbuckling and the initial sliding of the belt out of a couple of loops. We never let it get any farther than that and became very compliant. Oldest brother was understood to have been on the receiving end of that belt when he was younger - but he was 11 years older so I have no recollection just stories. I remember the day my sister went horseback riding against direct orders of Mom. Mom and Dad spent some quality time in her room. We were sent outside to play. I never knew for certain what happened, but I believe her sore backside was the product of a belt and not a horse. I remember my younger sister making my Mom blow her top as an adolescent and Sis being chased, caught, and spanked on the steps leading up to the bedrooms. So family spankings were very limited in my house, but the threat was perceived to be real.

School was a different story. I never met the business end of a paddle, but in grade school and junior high paddles were all the rage with teachers and principals in the 60's. In grade school, teachers carried paddles with them while patrolling recess, and one teacher in particular was often seen popping miscreants out in the school yard periodically. There was hardly a week that went by where I did not witness or hear the sounds of some poor lad or lassie getting the board of education out in the hallway. Teachers all had paddles in their rooms. I remember one third grader that was paddled at two separate times in front of the class. I could go on, but those examples are enough to suggest that corporal punishment was an accepted practice in Ohio public schools back then.

I believe my interest in spanking was sparked on a summer evening when my older teenage sister and her friend told me stories about all the neighborhood kids' spanking experiences. The girls were both friendly with the ladies of the neighborhood who would invite them in for cookies. The cookies was the true part, whether the stories were true - I will never know, but descriptive details of each of the different Moms' and Dads' spankings techniques for the neighborhood kids were related with enthusiasm. I was thereafter fascinated whenever a spanking scene was on TV. I still do not totally understand the fascination given that I know I would have really hated being spanked. I walked the straight and narrow in some small part because the fear of the belt at home and the paddle at school. My guess is that if I would have ever received one, I would have been reduced to a blithering crying mess.

Hmm answer would have to be 'never' as I believed I was a fast runner haha! I would be threatened with a one hand swat and chased around the hose but never caught. Very effective punishment if I may say so haha which led me to believe I could outrun my parents. I would spend an hour or so hiding in my room thinking they had been outwitted LOL! Hmm the age this was effective was around 7.... after that there was confiscation of favourite things. My 'interest' has nothing to do with childhood memories.

I was spanked regularly by my mom growing up. It was not unusual in our house and I got it in front of my older brother and younger sister, as did they in front of me. My mother believed in it, especially after my father's early death. I found an earlier comment interesting, as my mom was Jewish (my dad was Italian Catholic) and while we were raised Catholic, and I knew spanking was part of my dad's growing up, it had also been important in my mom's family. Perhaps it was a variation on guilt edging toward shame. We were all spanked into our late teens and always had to lift our skirts or lower our slacks. Mom would take our panties down (and my brother's undershorts) and when my sister and I began to wear bras, those had to come off which almost seemed more embarrassing then than having my panties pulled down. And if someone happened to be in the house when she decided one or more of us needed a spanking, we got it in front of them, old or young, male or female, relative or friend. And yes, I'm a confirmed spanko, mostly in the giving-out department these days.

Question 1: My answer is number 2; I was rarely spanked growing up. At home, I can only recall getting spanked twice by my mother, and I don't think it was very hard - at least it didn't make an impression on me. A little more frequently, she would try to swat me once or twice as I ran away. Those weren't really spankings, more like a precursor to what would happen to me if I continued to do whatever it was I was doing to upset her. I guess I got the message, b/c she rarely followed through, and I know she could have done so if she wanted. I do recall a spanking my father gave me, and I think it was the only time he ever spanked me. It was OTK, with his belt, with my pants up, but it still hurt more than any other punishment I ever got.

Since it happened so rarely, I don't recall when these actually stopped. My best guess would be 8 or 9.

I never got spanked at school. I did get my palms smacked with ruler a few times - this was the nuns' preferred method of punishment. I only remember seeing one boy actually get spanked at school. Fully clothed, bent over the teacher's (a nun) desk, and smacked with a ruler 5 or 6 times.

I'm pretty sure none of this had anything to do with me being/becoming a spanking lover. I think this is something I was born with. In fact, the first word I spoke - just after I came out of the womb - was in response to the doctor giving me the traditional smack on the bottom. I said "more!"

1. 2
2. 15 sadly

I was a goody two shoes and rarely got in trouble. Sadly, when I got older, "discipline" techniques were yelling or emotional isolation. Would have much rather the Maternal One found a spanking proxy.

[1] #3 (occasionally but not often), by hand or fly swatter (only my mother used one on me a few times when I was four or five), then later with a belt (from both parents), over whatever clothing I happened to be wearing at the time. (If I'd ever seriously misbehaved in the bathtub, it presumably would've been on the bare behind, but that never occurred.)

Although there were a few rare, brief paddlings given to kids (by the assistant principal) in my elementary school, I was never spanked there. My female fourth-grade teacher did believe in giving disruptive pupils a couple sharp swats with a ruler on one of their palms (IIRC it happened only to boys, however not very often), but it never happened to me.

[2] At age twelve (seventh grade), I believe spankings were discontinued for me at home.

I'd become fascinated by spanking around the age of five or six, as a result of briefly exchanging bare-bottom smackings with a female cousin my own age--we took turns bending pants-down over a swing to be slapped mildly with the other's palm. I don't remember it too well, but I believe that it was her idea and she delivered most of the handspanks.

I never had any erotic feelings about parental corporal correction (even though I now realize that my mother was damned attractive while in her thirties), or RE the prospect of being spanked by any other adult, but I did enjoy occasionally getting a couple sharp swats with a wooden ruler from that same cousin while playing 'school.' (It was the only real attraction I had to the game.) She'd order, "Hold your ankles," then smack the 'reprobate' on the seat of his/her pants once he/she was bent over.

I'd truly appreciate getting a serious paddywhacking on the bare from that cousin, but unfortunately we live 1,500 miles apart and I rarely get to see her--even then only at family-oriented functions--while I can only speculate that she may have spankophile tendencies... --C.K.

Although many frequent commentators responded a number of people who responded to this poll are people who rarely or never make any comments in the Forum. Here are the results of the poll:

Never spanked 20%

Rarely Spanked 31%

Spanked occasionally but not often 28%

Spanked regularly 13%

Spanked very frequently,
the main or only discipline method 8%

Age at which spankings stopped:

4 3%
7 14%
8 3%
9 10%
10 14%
11 10%
12 10%
13 10%
14 10%
15 7%
16 3%
17 3%
18 3%

From the statistics you can see that 59% of the respondents were spanked rarely or occasionally and for 54% it stopped between the ages of 9 and 14.

I suspect that similar results would be found if you polled a random group of non-spankos. Therefore it would appear that being spanked or not has little or no bearing on whether one becomes a spanko.. It is possible that one is born with a predisposition to being a spanko just as one is born being gay or straight or liking beets or not. If early life experiences have some contribution to that tendency those experiences may have nothing to do with actually being spanked.