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.

Maintenance spankings were normally lighter (pink, dark pink bottom) to act as a reminder.

I only see maintenance spankings being useful in adult spanking relationships. I do not believe being spanked regardles of behavior would make a child better behaved. But for those of us in consensual spaking relationships, it can meet the need of being spanked without the need to act out. The whole family being brought into the living room after church for each of the kids to get their weekly bare bottom spanking can be an entertaining story, but not very believable.

It’s not a real spanking but surely feels like one. He calls me a brat and I’ll take it without complaining (most times) but I’ll still say it’s not needed…..just let brats brat.

I only see maintenance spankings being useful in adult spanking relationships. I do not believe being spanked regardles of behavior would make a child better behaved.

@HaroldG as this is an adult fetish site it is between consenting adults. Not regarding children and spankings.

I once had an enemate who enjoyed bare bottom spankings because they reminded her of when she was growing up and her stepfather would switch her bare bottom. She was convinced that he got tons of sexual pleasure from having her hold her dress above her waist and watch while she dropped her cotton panties to her ankles.

He made her go in their yard and cut her own switch. Then he would stripe her bottom while her mother watched smoking a cigarette.

When her mother displeased him, he would make her strip naked and spank her over his lap with a hair brush while making my enemate watch.

If he was in a bad mood or was just feeling extra horny, he would then bare bottom spank my enemate just because she was available.

When she started developing breasts and growing pubic hair, he was make her strip naked for her spankings.

She said that there were many times when she and her mother were both told to strip and take spankings one after the other.

In a relationship where the sub likes getting spanked, it eliminates the wish to break the rules to earn a spanking. Or at least makes it less likely (speaking from experience that it doesn't always work)

It can also be a good way to enforce established dynamics in a fulltime D/s relationship. Reminding the sub of who is boss might be achieved through this, the effect being more about the demonstration of power than about the actual spanking