"spanks" by coach

I apolgize if you have read this--I wrote it some time ago and do not recall where------Back in the 60's guys swam naked in swim class----Our coach always gave my bare butt single spanks as in getting out of the pool or passing by my locker if i was bare--or coming from shower---It was always a single spank I never needed a discipline paddling He did not give other guys these single bare spanks--just me----The other guys laughed at him behind his back for his giving my bare butt so many single spanks---He did not know he was being laughed at he never touched me in any other way nor was he ever in trouble for doing any improper sexual things----- He did paddle guys bare for discipline but that was totally accepted at that time----I have always recalled this odd need to give so many spanks to my bare butt---I though it was kind of an 'atta boy' thing but it was too frequent-- he had a long career and retired with no blemish on his record----Would appreciate any comments on my experience---It could have been 'atta boy' or could have been a little more weird thanks

That was inappropriate if this only happened when you were bare butt. Totally different than a single hand swats to our rears that coaches would do if we were going from the sidelines into the game. That happened in almost every sport that I played in junior high and high school but not every coach did it. It wasn't controversial for a coach to swat a boy on the butt to send them into the game or back into a game. I don't know how that tradition started but it was a quick single hard hand swat to our seats. Maybe it was to get us focused. Kind of a good luck swat too.

I remember feeling the swat through my football pants or gym shorts or whatever I was wearing for that sport since the most that we ever wore under our sports uniforms was a jockstrap so there was only one layer of material between a hand swat and our butts. A hand swat was just hard enough to feel the sting but not enough to distract us from doing what we needed to do in the game. The same thing happened even when I swam on the school swim team. A quick swat on a speedo clad butt if I was being told to sub in for another swimmer who couldn't swim a race. I never had that happened in a locker room or coming out of a shower. If we were getting any swats in those circumstances, it was with a paddle and not with a coach's bare hand.

I would suspect you had a mighty sweet butt and the coach loved smacking it... That said it most likely was highly inappropriate.. There may be the slightest of chances he felt a real connection to you and felt your really needed this type of encouraging bounding... but I would consider that highly unlikely...

Today those coaches would be headed to prison

This was totally inappropriate and as mentioned previously he would be terminated and probably prosecuted. He isn't as bad as Jerry Sandusky who is doing multiple lifetimes in prison but he is in the same vein. Disgusting

In years past a swat on the butt would not have been seen as anything weird necessarily, certainly if nothing else happened. Not now! The coach would be buried alive under sexual harassment allegations.

Had never heard of swim teams being nude for practice, that sounds even more odd. One. thing for sure if any boy was unfortunate enough to earn a paddling from a coach on his bare wet butt just as he stepped out of the pool it would have been an experience he would never forget. Not to mention being reminded of it every time he sat down for the next few days. And imagine if he was from a family with the rule, "get it at school, get it at home too!"