Maintenance spankings

Personally, I see no reason for a "maintenance spanking." I cannot accept that any reasonable parent would engage in such a practice. Spankings are given as punishment. Punishment is the result of identified misbehavior. It seems more reasonable to give "maintenance rewards" in the form of praise or tangible rewards to reinforce proper behavior while reserving a good, hard, bare-bottom spanking for times when the child misbehaves.

Giving a spanking to a child for no reason that is the result of a misbehavior seems so wrong to me.

However, I suspect that if your interest in spanking is sexual and you are in a consensual spanking relationship with another adult, a "maintenance spanking" would be a way to increase mutually desired time across the knee...although I suspect that if that were the case, no real excuse would be necessary for such an event to happen frequently.

I can see how maintenance spankings would work in a Dom/Sub spanking relationship or even in a switching spanking relationship especially if spanking led to sex. I could hear me saying to my husband. "Honey, you might fix yourself another drink for it's Sunday night, and you're going to need it in a bit." Of course, the hairbrush or paddle would be in view.

Of course, if it were my butt that was going to be spanked, that phrase or similar would get my juices flowing.

Of course maintenance spankings only make sense in a kink context. I personally like them more than punishment spankings -- I don't want to be punished/punish for real relationship issues, and coming up with fake reasons for punishment can feel contrived. A ritualized, nurturing, but intense and very real maintenance spanking done for the sub's "own good" because the dominant knows best pushes my buttons much more.

The "unfairness" is part of the appeal.

Even when spanking is incorporated as "play" vs dom/sub punishment - it's just another reason to bare one's ass and initiate foreplay.

For me, it’s simply a way to remain in the right frame of mind for submission. When I’m regularly being told to slide my panties down and bend over to have a thermometer shoved up my hiney and given a bare bottom spanking, it’s a little harder to have an attitude.

I agree @AllyOTK

For me, it’s simply a way to remain in the right frame of mind for submission.

That is the key to the maintenance spankings. I enjoy being told what to do when I'm wanting to be submissive and obedient. Too often, I'm apt to get an attitude so being told to bend over the bed and or table, sometimes with my hands tied together and blindfolds on, the 'tude vanishes and I become a good, little obsequious girl 😊

My partner presents and displays her bottom for a spanking whenever she feels the need!

It's an unspoken understanding that has evolved in our relationship.