I have to disagree about re-enacting something from childhood in an adult spanking. I received a few spankings as a child either by hand or with the wooden spoon or rubber spatula. They were discipline, and I did NOT like them. There was ZERO enjoyment to them, and as I wanted to avoid getting them (or any other punishment) I changed my behavior. There was never anything arousing to them for me, nor for my parents. It was purely discipline.
Somewhere in my teenage years I noticed that when I read/heard/saw a spanking or a threat of a spanking in something fictional (tv, movie, book), I'd get a little quiver, a jump, deep inside me. In those stories there was also nothing sexual involved. It was usually some woman who was doing something she shouldn't and a strong man had an answer to the problem. "I ought to put you over my knee and tan your hide until you can't sit..." "I'm going to give her a very necessary talking to." Think Ricky and Lucy. Or John Wayne calmly following Maureen O'Hara through town until she ended up across his lap. Fantasizing off of those types of scenes DID eventually lead to thoughts of what could happen after the spanking as I got older, but again, I never ever ever connected it to anything from childhood spankings.
And now, I still find spankings can be highly erotic, but I differentiate between spankings. There's true discipline ones that are not only not erotic but also really affect my thoughts. I dread those, not because of the physical pain so much but because I have done something wrong and hurt my Dom. There's perhaps some childhood coming in there, as it's punishment, I didn't like disappointing my parents either, and I change my behavior to avoid getting another discipline one. I am not, however, envisioning what happened as a child and what the spanking could lead to. It doesn't lead anywhere, except maybe the corner, any more than childhood ones did. My Dom finds nothing erotic to the discipline ones either. His entire demeanor changes when we have to do one. There's maintenance ones, which are a form of discipline, to remember what can happen if I disobey my Dom. Those are not erotic for me, but neither do they really affect me mentally. The "because I can" ones start carrying over to erotic. I never got either of that kind as a child, so those have no connection to childhood. And then there's the fun kind of spanking that leads to all kinds of other things.......
As far as Shay's concern/dislike, I don't have a problem with members who write about "standard" spankings or parents who chose to apply a FEW licks with a belt or stripes with a switch, etc. I have a big problem reading about some of the extreme beatings that some members relate from their childhoods and an even bigger issue with those who claim the parents got off spanking them (and the parents if that's a true thing). Abuse in the name of discipline is wrong as is using children's discipline for sexual arousal. That is why even on personal recollections Moderators edit or remove a post for walking the line on zity's rules.
With those rules in mind, please note that the topic of this thread is "Does anyone else not like members talking about children being spanked?" NOT whether or not children should be spanked at all. Posts that turn the thread to that will be deleted.