I was. My area is was relatively non spank. I didn't know such a thing existed before school. There was the natural frustrated parents clipping you around the head or whacking you with something. But it was never "spanking."
Then in school as time went on and events unfolded I discovered this entirely different process, this punishment that fell into a separate special category. It was unlike anything seen or experienced before. This was a thing of intimacy, embarrassment, one on one connections. This was laying across a lap, OTK. Always OTK ! There were public displays of this which created fear and fantasies, desires and shame. Fascination and arousal. So yes elementary school was a learning experience. Then just like everything else that just came along ion life, one day there appeared pants and underwear pulled down spankings. Not beatings !! We were not assaulted. I can tell you I was spanked. Though this bare method holds memories of in-class public views, that created unimaginable shame.
These session of course happened in private sometimes with huge emphasis on ritual and ceremony. Other times it was reaction to frustration and disrespect, disobedience. It was in school I found myself over a woman's lap and being taught to obey women in authority. It is all different for everyone who knows how it ends up. For me I realized that the people that cared for me were women and intimacies were expected. Nudity and body touching was something shared between a few women over a boy. My naked body was allowed, under certain circumstance, to rub against the bare naked body of another adult. Bare penis and body against bare thighs. No other way to word it.
Penile and buttock and anal handlings at home and penile and buttock handling in school. No other scenario in life would you be able to pull down your pants and underwear and rub your penis all over a lady teacher's leg. That would be a case for medical psychological evaluation intervention. But in spankings, this intimacy was perfectly required as was the complete compliance.
Only 2 women are recalled when associating the movement of the foreskin.
Mum washing and retraction back and forth causing erections. One of those things that lock in memory as a body memory, you know it from feeling rather than site.
Teacher, across her lap and her bare skin and feeling my foreskin retract as I thrust and humped into her leg during the spankings.
There may be no more to it, or there may have been an erection. Oh well. I choose OTK spanking over a cold belting any day in my childhood. We all have our memories, embrace and enjoy, or reject and be a victim I suppose.