I see no need to be disciplined or to discipline another person - male or felmale - for any other reason than a sexual advance
I do. Spanking is a social ritual imbued with a lot of meanings and emotions.
Can eroticization of spankings such as in the childhood be an enabler for this activity? It sure can. However:
1. it is an enabler, not an essence.
2. This enabler applies (generally speaking) to spanking as an act and not to the spanker as a sexual being.
Any man who would derive sexual pleasure from spanking another man or being spanked by another man is not straight. He would be at least bi-curious or bisexual
This belief seems to naively presuppose a structure of the spanking that includes only two entities: a spanker and a spankee. Whereas in fact there are at least six:
1. The spanker, further substructured:
1(a) The spanker as a sexual being.
1(b) The spanker in his/her other, non-sexual qualities.
2. The role of the spanker (such as a parent, in case of roleplay parental spankings).
3. Spanking as an act.
4. The role of the spankee (such as a child, in case of roleplay parental spankings).
5. The spankee (can also be subdivided, but I'll skip it here).
Spanking can be qualified as a homosexual or para-homosexual activity (for №5) if eroticization is directed from №5 to №1(a).
Eroticizations of all other kinds (there are five other conceivable parings for №5, counting in 5->5 for the case of autoeroticism) do not make spanking a homosexual or para-homosexual activity for №5.