Slog - Comments on Spanking Leads to Sexual Deviancy

Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty in Waimea

Fifty-Two-Eighty in Waimea — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:26:17 -0800

Well, that explains everything. Except maybe the ex, who had never been spanked in her life before I came along. Or tied up. She was a fast learner, though.

Comment by monkey

monkey — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:31:55 -0800

#1 beat me to it. It really would explain a lot.

Comment by jhell

jhell — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:35:44 -0800

Is spanking correlated homosexuality too? It really is my parents fault!

Comment by jhell

jhell — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:36:19 -0800

correlated to homosexuality, oops

Comment by maxine

maxine — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:43:11 -0800

That makes me wonder about my supposedly non-freaky, fundy sister who was definitely spanked a lot more than I was. As for me...duh! But I actually liked it as a kid and would laugh and that would make my mom or dad hit me harder. Hee hee. They actually switched to time outs for me...but not her. I doubt she is one of the "lucky" ones. I personally believe Jesus is a fetish.

Comment by erika

erika — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:48:15 -0800

Well, you've got to imagine there is a lot of freaky sexual stuff going on in the old "spare the rod and spoil the child" Bible Belt. Part of which is related to all the sexual shame they promote, but it is all related to corporal punishment and their child rearing system as a whole.

Comment by Mr Catnip

Mr Catnip — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:56:46 -0800

Well, my strict Southern Baptist grandfather beat the shit out of my dad, who in turn, raped the shit out of me. I, in turn, verbally assault all the Slog children. But this is where it stops!

Comment by Suz

Suz — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:01:03 -0800

no matter what we do, even healthy people will screw up their kids in some way. we can't anticipate what will set one kid off and not another. best to start saving up for their therapy just as you would for college.

Comment by danielbennettkieneker

danielbennettkieneker — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:16:36 -0800

Pleased to meet you.

Comment by Jason Josephes

Jason Josephes — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:46:40 -0800

Yeah, this explains quite a bit. That and what the babysitter did, I mean. (It's okay -- female babysitter. Cue the South Park "nice.")

Comment by apres_moi

apres_moi — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:51:02 -0800

mmm i've been a bad boy. spank me harder daddy :-D

i couldn't resist saying it lol

Comment by lymerae

lymerae — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:22:46 -0800

I was never spanked... my parents threatened, but never followed through... does this mean I can't call myself a sexual deviant anymore?

Comment by Kiru Banzai

Kiru Banzai — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:24:01 -0800

In my experience this is true.

Comment by Series of Tubes

Series of Tubes — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:13:12 -0800

I don't agree. I used to be quite active in the kink community, and talked to a lot of fellow perverts about their upbringing. There was no higher incidence of childhood physical discipline among the deviants than among the vanilla people. What WAS much more frequent in the childhoods of my fellow degenerates was a fundie-churchgoing upbringing, but contrary to popular stereotypes, not all fundies beat or screw their children.

Comment by kerri harrop

kerri harrop — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:37:59 -0800

I would argue that not being spanked as a child feeds the desire to have one's bottom warmed as an adult.

Then again, I come from a big Catholic family, so maybe that's it.

Comment by Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:01:32 -0800

Whatever. I was spanked plenty as a child and, aside from the fact that I'm gay, I am unbearably vanilla.

Comment by Ben

Ben — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:36:08 -0800

First time I read that headline, I thought it meant spanking NOW would lead to sexual deviancy NOW. Like, spanking my wife would make her more deviant.

I guess I don't even think about punishing kids when I think about spanking.