Erotic spanking often goes hand in hand with other fetishes, such as for erotic clothes or sexual humiliation.

Erotic spanking is the practice of spanking another for the sexual gratification of either or both parties. Erotic spanking is generally regarded as a form of BDSM activity (sadomasochism in particular), although many spanking devotees do not regard it as such. Spanking can be carried out with the bare hands, a ruler, hairbrush, paddle, switch, cane, crop, birch, martinet or whip; it is sometimes combined with sexual roleplaying and/or ageplay. It is often delivered on the bare buttocks.

Positions for spanking include:

• over the knee (OTK) or across the lap
• laying face down on a bed or birching block
• bent under the arm of the spanker

Those interested in giving or receiving erotic spankings are sometimes known as spankophiles or spankos. Examples include the poet Algernon Swinburne and the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Many people with a sexual interest in spanking draw on historical corporal punishment techniques used in homes, schools, courts or prisons. However they are generally careful to distinguish their consensual sexual activities from their views of child-rearing, education and public policy. Punishment spankings and erotic spankings are sometimes hard to separate, see domestic discipline.

Spanking fetishism in gay men

Spanking fetishism in gay men has many varieties. Some gay men with spanking fetishes are "turned on" by spanking with various instruments within BDSM relationships. In the erotic fiction of this type, spanking is seen as natural as a reflex as sitting on a chair or making dinner. Other types include "spanking between friends", "father-son spankings" (most commonly of a father spanking a preteen or teen son), "brother-brother spanking" (often reciprocated from a spanking by a father), and authoritarian school disciplines. The least personalized and least overtly erotic are usually the authoritarian school discipline stories and pictures, which are less popular in the United States, where there is little of this culture. In the United States, "father-son" (especially paddling and belting), "brother-brother", and "between friends" are more common as pornography.

References and further reading

• Lady Green, The Compleat Spanker, Greenery Press, 2000. ISBN 189015900X.

A 19th century sketch

spank (http://www.femdomart.net)

Also see

• Spanking magazines
• Berkley horse
• flagellation
• Nexus Books
• Penny Birch
• Yolanda Celbridge
• Wendy Swanscombe

External links

• http://www.sssnewsgroup.com/
• SpankingCommunity.org resources (http://www.spankingcommunity.org/)
• Spanking Drawings (http://www.femdomart.net/femdomart/spandraw.htm)
• Spanking Blog (http://www.spankingblog.com/)
• http://www.guyspank.com/