Did parents, teachers and other adults derive sexual pleasure from spanking?

I do remember reading one time that Voltaire supposedly had a spanking fetish that he wrote about a couple of times, but now I wonder how often spanking fetishes as a phenomenon occurred prior to his time. Our ancestors weren’t stupid, they just had different ways of expressing and understanding these things.

Spanking is probably just a small subset in the series of sexualized activities that are predicated on causing pain. In that regards, spanking would be of a lesser harmful order than many other activities where pain was involved.

I'm sure our ancestors had no illusions about the ways in which some people link sex with pain.

@agracier Yeah, but if I had to make a bet, I’d say less people in the past saw spanking through a sexual lens than they do today. Of course, we have porn and the internet. But maybe you are right. What’s that quote? “Everything in life is about sex, except sex is about power”?

The one memory I have along these lines concerns a spanking I received from my French teacher in high school after calling me an idle bastard.

He took me out of the classroom to give me a lecture on not doing my homework.

After the lecture, he bent me over and pushed my head between his legs. I was definitely aware of his genitals dangling over the back of my neck through his baggy trousers.

He then proceeded to lightly tap my bottom a few times, before letting me up and telling me to consider myself severely spanked.

I found the whole thing really weird, and had stop myself from laughing and managed to keep a straight face.

Nowadays that sort of behaviour would not, nor should be tolerated.

I would say he obviously got some sort of pleasure doing it, but I couldn't say whether is was sexual, or just a power play. It never happened again.

I did discuss it with some of my class-mates at the time and we laughed about it.

@LordJim2 Yeah, there’s no justification for that sort of position. Wow

Looking back on it now that I am older, I think it was possible.

I'm sure some did. I don't know if either of my parents did, but my father certainly had a "thing" about the fantasy of adult women being whipped, so it's possible that he might have derived some pleasure from spanking in general. Again, I don't know for sure, but it did seem like the energy level at home went up when I was to be dealt with.

My parents left me at the home of friends of theirs on several occasions. The dad in the family was definitely "spank happy" and seemed to love to dole them out and to threaten to dole them out. I think he enjoyed the domination and fear he caused.

I would yes but also no. My basis for saying no is, growing up I think my parents were sometimes disappointed in me that I had to be spanked, so it was more of chore which was no pleasure sexual or otherwise. I based on the fact that my dad let me slide as a teenager before he spanked the last time at 17. A that last one he seemed annoyed that he had to do it, but more so because he was on doing other things which he stop and deal with me. It was a tough spanking and it was severe and it hurt. My butt was sore for a few days.

On the other hand, yes, because as kid, I think for direct disobedience and some of the other foolish things kids, do, they liked it because I deserved it. But even then there was a level of appointment if nothing else. Whether is a sexual thing, I can't say, but mental pleasure, definitely yes. Especially my mom who sometimes talk about I or my brothers had been spanked and punished with her friends and would exchange stories and laugh over coffee.

The interesting thing about my parents and sex was the only thing we realized at a young age, was if their bedroom was closed and locked, don't bother them, they would come out when they ready. At young age, I didn't understand but as I went into puberty, it became clear. Also, other than hello and goodbye kissing, but did not sure much intimacy around myself and siblings. They were however, married for 61 years.