This document discusses the topic of spanking in movies and literature. It notes that there are over 700 movie entries in a compilation that describe scenes involving spanking. While some view spanking as merely erotic, the author believes it can have deeper meaning and references surveys finding 1/3 to 2/3 of people enjoy spanking fantasies. The document also examines how psychologists like Freud and Ellis have viewed spanking and why science has struggled to fully explain its psychological and social aspects and appeal.

1. A Curious Obsession

4. Steve Richardson, editor, publisher and founder of CF Publications, thinks that it isn't only welcome in movies and stories. In fact, he believes that somewhere between a third and two thirds of population actually enjoy spanking.

5. For his statement, he turns our attention to plenty of different sources, movies, stories, but also advice columns, or even religious papers that talk about spanking children.

7. Naturally, you can say that just the inclusion of spanking makes a work erotic one. Or at least that most readers will take it as such. However, many writers return to this theme, and also, it is a quite customary theme in plenty of romantic novels.

9. ...he sat down and bent her over his knees.

10. "Don't you dare...," she squealed.

11. The pain of his well-aimed slaps was nothing compared to the injury to her dignity as she struggled impotently against the steel band of his arm holding her across his knees. When at last he released her and stood her on her feet, the tears sparkling in her eyes were composed of molten fury.

13. It is quite obvious that someone of influence considers this market to have certain value. However, the question is, why it pulls so many different groups of people, with completely different ideas and different reading materials (which both include spanking, maybe in a different form, but it's still there).

14. Helen Weitzenkorn, past president of Massachusetts NOW, considers this a way to dominate women, to humiliate them, something that makes male domination easier to hold. That can be difficult to dispute, particularly if one is trying to explain a movie like John Wayne's McClintock! This movie, by modern standards, does reflect more of a male domination fantasy than anything else. The ending itself puts the lead female in spanked position, and makes the point of the whole movie...

16. Besides, let's be realistic, with so many crime novels and violent video games, we should have more murders than we have citizens... But it just doesn't work this way. As long as fantasy remains fantasy, all is well.

17. In Freud's learnings, spanking is considered an SM element that is only a form of libido displacement, not much more.

18. However, another psychologist from that same era, Havelock Ellis, who unlike Freud didn't explain everything sexually, but actually wrote about the psychology of sex, explained that spanking is our return to our animal nature, where foreplay is actually a kind of fight.

20. However, unlike medicine, psychology didn't have to be exact in it's findings. Plenty of theories could be easily received well, without a real, consecutive proof.

21. Seventies, eighties, nineties didn't really make much move in this area of psychology. Just a few serious articles were made, and huge, serious researches were missing.

23. Naturally, it must be noted that this work wasn't made with the idea to explain and completely resolve the phenomenon, but to be interesting to the reader and to have titillating effect. It touches the true nature of spanking through the writer's view of it, and through the view it will interest the reader most if written in this way.