I think that an interest in spanking is both nature and nurture, physical and psychological.
On the physical side nerves in the buttocks also are connected to the genitals. When they are stimulated the genitals are stimulated to some degree also. Of course that stimulation is often masked by the pain at the time but later on the genital feelings may still be there and a person may, sooner or later, learn to connect the two.
On the psychological side many people have erotic feelings based on dominant/submission themes. Spanking is one of the expressions of those feelings.
Exposure to those themes will generate an increased interest in them. For example , although spankos have always existed spanking in the past was mainly associated with punishment. Nowadays with all the porn sites normalizing behavior that was formerly underground many more people, particularly women, now consider spanking to be a form of foreplay although still kinky.
There does not seem to be much of a connection between whether a person was spanked as a child or not and whether they have an adult interest in spanking. Possibly that may be because most children, with some exceptions, don't have strong sexual feelings until they reach puberty. Most spankos don't began to think of spanking as being sexy until they began to have sexual feelings, usually as preteens or early teens.
I can think of one notable exception however. One female that I know personally told me that she had no interest in spanking until one day, when she was in her thirties, she was walking along with her then boyfriend and he gave her a sharp slap to her bottom. Instantly she thought, "I liked that!"
As a result of that incident she began researching spanking and became a full fledged spanko. And this was in the days before the internet when spankos had to share their mutual interest through ads in magazines and through letters, a much more laborious process than today.
At that time, being already in her thirties, she thought that she would probably never get married but because of her new found interest a few years later she married a fellow spanko. Certainly a happy ending. (pun intended) |