Does anyone else wish they got more spankings growing up?

Yes, got some but while it scared me, it excited me as well.

I Do 😈😈

I thank the guardian angels I don't believe in, that I was never spanked when growing up. In fact, the very notion of being spanked made my blood boil in anger. Nothing more cowardly than a grown-up beating on a youngster who couldn't defend themselves.

Of course I was aware of the need for some kind of corrective punishment, but just nothing involving hitting, swatting, spanking, wacking etc. All it would have done is build up an ever growing resentment and desire to get back at the perpetrators.

So, I can safely say that it would never ever have even crossed my mind fleetingly to actually ask for a spanking. Frankly, when I saw the question here on Zity I couldn't believe it at first. Why would a child ask for a spanking? Perhaps to avoid a worse punishment? That is conceivable, but even so, I don't gather this was the general idea behind the question.

I had plenty of spankings growing up, so I didn't need to wish for more.

I had plenty of spankings growing up, so I didn't need to wish for more.

Perhaps if your childhood spankings had been less plentiful, then you might have craved more?

I would.

Oh geeze no. Those probably bordered actual child abuse.

I didn't think of it as child abuse 50 years ago, and nobody else said that in those days. Why do you think that is, Nixie?

I didn't think of it as child abuse 50 years ago, and nobody else said that in those days. Why do you think that is, Nixie?

There were spankings and then there were 'spankings' that did verge on and qualify as physical abuse. There was no set standard that parents were 'taught' and therefore all spankings varied in intensity, pain, duration and conditions (bare buttocks, naked or not).

My parents did not spank and I know by personal experience what my parents thought of one married couple (my father's work colleague) who spanked/beat their kids savagely. They despised the father who did that.

And let's not forget when drunkenness is added to the spanking experience. That often ends very badly for the child in question and few people were in doubt it was abuse.

And of course, humans being frail as they are, some spankers could not control their emotions for any number of reasons and would get carried away, going way way beyond what a supposed educational spanking should be.

So many people in those days did most certainly consider some forms spanking quite obvious abuse.

There were spankings and then there were 'spankings' that did verge on and qualify as physical abuse. There was no set standard that parents were 'taught' and therefore all spankings varied in intensity, pain, duration and conditions (bare buttocks, naked or not).

So what would you say about my father giving me a couple of dozen smacks on my bare bottom with a leather slipper? Where does that fit in with your "There were spankings and then there were 'spankings' that did verge on and qualify as physical abuse" comment? It sounds pretty normal for 50 years ago when parental spankings were par for the course.

So what would you say about my father giving me a couple of dozen smacks on my bare bottom with a leather slipper? Where does that fit in with your "There were spankings and then there were 'spankings' that did verge on and qualify as physical abuse" comment? It sounds pretty normal for 50 years ago when parental spankings were par for the course.

You experienced this, not me. So you're the person best suited to give an assessment.

I do know that many people managed to raise kids relatively well enough without having to spank or hit them. Just as it known that the best way to treat pets and animals is also not to hit or mistreat them physically.

I remember a couple RTs from a babysitter but never a spanking.

What are RTs?

What are RTs?

Rectal temperature. This abbreviation is used in numerous posts all over Zity.

I had just a few spankings from my dad. It was one of my close friends who had it a lot. I even witnessed his punishment a couple of times. If I had a Time Machine I’d go back to those days when we did something wrong with him for which he was spanked and I was not. I would say to his dad we are friends, we did it together and we should share responsibility, so I feel I should also be punished. I am sure his dad wouldn’t hesitate at that time to spank me along with his own son.

Spanking friends' sons wasn't the done thing when I was a kid. My dad would have said "If my son needs a spanking I'll do it".

Spanking friends' sons wasn't the done thing when I was a kid. My dad would have said "If my son needs a spanking I'll do it".

It wasn’t very uncommon where I was growing up. And also, I’d never tell my parents about such things.

I never got spanked as a child, not that it wasn't a think, cause it was. I remember my siblings and cousins being spanked, and being terrified! So my question is, do you think my loving spanking, is due to me seeing others get spanked but I never did?!

So my question is, do you think my loving spanking, is due to me seeing others get spanked but I never did?!

I think it is probably a combination of factors. Seeing others get spanked certainly could trigger it. Some of us are just wired this way and it doesn't take much to draw our attention to it.

Seeing another boy getting spanked was what triggered it in me, but the desire to be spanked must have been already dormant in my nature otherwise it simply wouldn't have been aroused that time, full stop.

@agracier There were spankings and then there were 'spankings' that did verge on and qualify as physical abuse.

The spanking that I was aware of when young in the early 1950's were not because of their severity, but instead because of frequency.