Was bare bottom spanking really that common?

Did bare bottom spanking really used to be that common? I see so many people on here talking about how it was just a way of life, and how it was completely normal to be spanked bare bottom until there late teens. I was spanked bare bottom one time around 11-12 and already having a spanking fetish at that age it was one of the worst experiences of my life. I’ve never spanked my daughter period let alone would I ever spank her bare bottom into her teens. Maybe it’s just becuase of my spanking fetish I feel that way.Not judging anyone. I even enjoy the spanking porn depicting that particular scene. I just wonder if everyone on here is telling the truth sometimes lol.

It probably depends "when". In many novels or autobiographies set in the 19th century or first half of the 20th century, it is considered a matter of course to spank, switch, or flog children (think of Tom Sawyer). It's not always said if it was on the bare or not though.

IHi Curious....in answer to your question, it sure was at my house.......no exceptions, I think the real punishment for bare bottom over the knee was the embarrassment and humiliation more than the actual spanking itself. Mind you, they did sting and depending on the transgression, they could be by hand or the dreaded hairbrush or worse yet the paddle could come out. I had friends that were spanked on their bare bottoms but I was very private about my spankings. One benefit for the spanker of bare bottoms is that they can observe just how long and hard a spanking to administer so as not to over do it.

It was 50 years ago.

IHi Curious....in answer to your question, it sure was at my house.......no exceptions, I think the real punishment for bare bottom over the knee was the embarrassment and humiliation more than the actual spanking itself. Mind you, they did sting and depending on the transgression, they could be by hand or the dreaded hairbrush or worse yet the paddle could come out. I had friends that were spanked on their bare bottoms but I was very private about my spankings. One benefit for the spanker of bare bottoms is that they can observe just how long and hard a spanking to administer so as not to over do it.

I would have to agree, it seems the embarrassment would be the worst.How old were you and your friends when receiving your last one? Was it just your mom giving them to you or was it your dad also?

Google tells us there were about 50 million households in the US in the decade of the 50s-60s. If only 10% of homes included children who received bare bottom spankings (and I bet it was more than that) then that's a lot of kids who were spanked.

I got my first proper bare bottom spanking as an adult with a fully developed spanking fetish. When I was a boy, my mother only spanked me through my clothes, at least as far as I can remember.

Google tells us there were about 50 million households in the US in the decade of the 50s-60s. If only 10% of homes included children who received bare bottom spankings (and I bet it was more than that) then that's a lot of kids who were spanked.

In 1950 the average woman had 5 children (per "Our World in Data), that's 250 million kids and if 10% of them (which is probably on the skinny side) got spanked bare bottom - that would be 25 milion butts that got whacked. While spanking wasn’t common in our house, I’d bet each of those who got spanked growing up, got spanked on at least 10 different occasions (another unverifiable assumption - probably on the low side) - that’s 250 million spankings. At 10 whacks perspanking (again unverifiable) comes to 2.5 billion whacks ….makes me feel sorry for the parents who suffered bruised hands! 😀😀😀

It certainly was in the 1950s and the early 1960s in the city in which I grew up. According to my college girfriend it was common in her city too (as well as in her household).

This was a common occurrence among us. Boys were spanked more often. Not all, but very many. The children reacted differently to this. Some even boasted. Others, like me, were ashamed of this and denied it in every possible way if other children laughed at me because of it.

Was in my house growing up. I seen my older sister get her butt spanked with a belt at 16 jeans panties down . Mom didn’t care about modest I got the bare butt spanking in front of her too.

Grew up in a small town in Ontario Canada and got spanked over the knee bare bum well into my teens. Dated my wife in High school and her and her sisters got the same - it was the spanking era!!

Yes it was very normal to spank children on their bare butts and still is in some places. The most common spanking implements that used to be used were switches and birch rods which were basically a bundle of switches. Both are really only effective on a bare bottom.

If you look back at cartoons, comics, and movies a lot of spanking scenes implied or directly showed spankings given on bare bottoms. There is even a new Bugs Bunny/ Yosemite Sam cartoon where Sam gets his pants pulled down and spanked. I don’t remember which movie but there is one where a boy is going to be spanked and he motions as if he pulls his pants down then bends over while his dad lashes him. In Joe the King a bare bottom spanking in school is shown with obviously fake bare buttocks shown. The list goes on but the point is they don’t show that because it was a rare event. It was normal.

When I was growing up in the 80s most of my close friends admitted to getting spanked on their bare butts. In fact one of my first childhood memories was a discussion I had with friends about how our dads spanked us. At that point in time though, parents were more discreet and usually took kids behind closed doors. I suspect this still happens to some degree, especially in the US where most people still claim Christianity, as the Bible is pro spanking.

I grew up in the 1970s and while I was never spanked, all of my close friends got spanked. I am pretty sure all of them got bare bottom spankings, but I know for certain that my best friend did. I witnessed two of them and both were given bare bottom with a ping pong paddle by his father.

I was never spanked bare-bottom by either parent, though I was spanked. Often. I have a good friend (female) who was up into her late pre-teens with a belt. There was a whole ritual about it, having to wait face down on her bed, pants down waiting to get smacked. Seems extra creepy to me. She was not sexually abused. I don’t know if she’s a spanko now, we’ve lost touch.

@Nurse_Phillips A cousin of mine used to receive the martinet like you describe, face down on bed, bare bottom, though I don't think there was a full ritual for it. It was reserved for serious offenses, otherwise he just got the hand.

Was your friend spanked on the bare by her father? mother?

If I remember correctly her father was the primary spanker.

Growing up I didn't receive all that many spankings but it was always done on my bare bottom with pants and underpants pulled down to my ankles either with the back of my mother's wooden hairbrush or with a doubled over leather belt.

I grow up in The Eastern Europe during the fall of our communist era (The '80s) and the new democracy of the Early '90s.

During this decades, the parental spanking discipline was still popular with a large spread in all social classes especilly for the mid class families. Even today, UNICEF said based om annonymous polls made inside school students that around 70% from the kids was spanked at least once in their last 12 months.

This is a huge number for today, so, just imagine how it was 4 decades ago...

I still remember how soo many parents from the past used to talk / socialize in their circles being open-mind to free disscussions about bare-butt spankings that they used to give to their children...

Also a lot of literature and movies / TV productions depicted really realist this kind of discipline...

Most of the yesterday kids used to receive or to be witness of such kind of discipline...

Depending on age, it may be very true for many members. As I am 63, I grew up with discipline in our home. It was not used to be abusive, rather to correct poor choices and put me on a better path. I agree that some here do push truthfulness to its limits.

When I was growing up there were mentions of fessée cul nu (bare bottom spanking) but I never experienced it. In fact I never experienced a spanking, at least one that I remember.

I was spanked on the bare in the 1970s to early 80s, and slippered. Don’t think it was unusual at the time, quite a few of my friends and others I knew at the time were too.

It was at thing at my house for sure. Only mom spanked, but she was fierce with a hairbrush or wooden spoon. Always bare. Not sure if that is why I am a spanko. Probably. It was common around us though. I know the neighbor girl got it because I could hear her getting it. I will say that got me very exited.

Very common in our house, only mom. Always bare bottomed, bare hand in in the early 70's, graduated to a long paddle about 1/8" thick, broke that on my ass one day and mom had a friend that did wood working make one that was a little over 1/4" thick about 18" long, 4" wide. That one hung on the wall next to the refrigerator as a reminder of what would come, and was used until I was around 15 in the mid 80's.

Funny mom gave that paddle to my sister when she had her twins, my sister had a fireplace going and tossed it into it in front of my mom telling her she never wanted to see that again.

Needless to say after my childhood, I never spanked my kids.

A a teen in the late 90’s, I never got to enjoy it. Seems it was more common early 70’s and earlier on , from other people.

Later on I met an older mentor online , he was probably mid 60’s and I was around 19-20, and he introduced me to the world of erotic and sensual spankings along with anal play. Experienced many wonderful sessions over his lap and other positions. And after a few sessions , he asked me to reciprocate which I did and it was amazing and a powerful feeling.

I always found spanking pictures and stories erotic , but he was the first I experienced it with , and it was amazing.

Yes, growing up in the late 1940's, early 1950's, they were even done outside, in public!

I was never spanked bare bottom by either parent. Mother did give me a crack on the bare one time when I was acting up in the bathroom. Of my girlfriends, who I knew how they got spanked at home, only two were spanked bare and then by their mothers and no older than junior high age. One was a single parent and her mother was very English. By that, I mean that her mother was not born in England but also educated there. Therefore, I don't think bare bottom spankings are as prevant in America as they are in stories.

I was born in the 50s and spanking was a fairly common thing parents used to discipline children. At schools I attended there were paddle boards openly displayed in classrooms and the principles office and sometimes students were paddled. One time a fellow student was paddled by his teacher and when his father found out what happened he went to the school and confronted the teacher and then paddled the teacher with his own paddle, after that the classroom paddle board disappeared and the teacher changed his attitude. I got more than my share of spanking’s or being threatened with one growing up and it only made me more aggressive towards men and it it left me with problems of socializing with men later in my life. If a lady gives me one or two swat’s or flirts and touches me really enjoy it. I have children also and I have never spanked any of them. I could not ever do that to any child.

At schools I attended there were paddle boards openly displayed in classrooms and the principles office and sometimes students were paddled. One time a fellow student was paddled by his teacher and when his father found out what happened he went to the school and confronted the teacher and then paddled the teacher with his own paddle, after that the classroom paddle board disappeared and the teacher changed his attitude.

Sweet poetic justice. Served the teacher right. Hope he liked his just deserts.

It was in my house in the late 50’s. And 60’s, never was spanked by my father. Mom always spanked bare bottom, every spanking I received was bare bottom except in school, always over my pants.

The two times my aunt paddled me was bare bottom, I was 14.

Those were the last spankings I remember receiving from mom and my aunt.

Fast forward to today all my spankings are bare bottom