How did you get into spanking?

[Tal]

I always find it interesting when people who like spanking (giving, receiving, or both) talk about how it was that they discovered they like it.

I also think that for many of us, it can sometimes be a difficult thing to live with, and/or reconcile into our lives. (Certainly for me, it has caused conflicts in relationships I have had with women who were not into it, who thought it was too kinky for them to accept, something like this.)

For myself I have often tried to work out just why or how it could be that I find spanking so erotic and exciting. I was the child of loving parents who never punished me physically. They were pretty religious, but in what I like to think of as a nurturing, good way, not an obsessive and/or guilt-racked way.

I'd never even really heard of spanking as a fetish until I was about 18 or 19, away from home for the first time, and saw my first spanking magazine. Looking at it made me feel utterly wicked, my mind was just reeling and I couldn't stop thinking about the stories and images.

More than once over the years I've tried to turn my back on this interest and "go vanilla", but it can't really be done of course, we all know that right? Or at least not without denying oneself, denying what one really is.

Hey Tal. I never liked spankings at first. When I was younger I got spankings alot from my Mom, Older Sister, and my Grandmother. I was really bad as a kid so I got spankings like maybe 3 or 4 times a week. Depending on what I did of course. My Mom always used a belt. She never used her hand and she always spanked me while I was butt naked so basically I didn't have much protection. I never listened to her when she said to stay still. I always either ran away from her or I was held down and spanked while I tried to get away from her. My Older Sister spanked me because I used to mess with her stuff and either break it or lose it so she spanked me with her hand or with a slipper. And my Grandmother spanked me when I didn't listen to her, which was basically all the time, so I got spanked by her alot when I was little. She always used this little skinny belt that stung when it hit you and she always spanked me naked too. ( By naked too, I meant that she spanked me while I was naked. ) So when I was younger I hated spankings, but as I got older I stopped getting spankings and for some reason I slowly started to miss them. I thought that I was crazy or something for missing the feeling of a leather belt across my butt and thighs, but then I started to see spankings as something fun instead of always being a punishment. Like how when I was little I got a friendly smack on the butt from my Mom or my other family members and it was just for fun. It wasn't meant to hurt me. So as I got older I got more interested in spankings and that's when I found this website. I couldn't belive that a website like this existed. I then made a username and became a member of AnimeOTK and I looked at the pictures and read the stories. And from then on I liked spankings. Sometimes when I'm playing with my boyfriend he would spank me but since he is the gentle type he never hits me as hard as I want him too. So he'll spank me but when my butt starts to turn red or get really warm he'll stop and say that he doesn't want to hurt me. I wish that he would continue but I understand how he feels so I just stay satifsyed with the spanking he gave me. And so that is how I got into spanking. And if you didn't know I'm a girl. I hoped I was able to answer your question Tal.

For the most part, Tim corrupted me. *nods*

[arkham-insanity]

I have loved spankings ever since the age of 7...it started when I read a comic at a friends house...I think it was "Richie Rich" it had a spanking...and at 7 years old I found it thrilling and exciting!...I then convinced my little friend to spank him behind the barn!...my adrenalin was rushing and it was so exciting...from then on I was hooked!

Oddly enough I was spanked by my mom growing up....It was always with a switch on the bare bottom...and very painful..but there was always that adrenaline rush moments before...before the explosion of pain....Amazingly I never did anything to purposly get a spanking...and my mom did not spank for everything..and after the age 10 I hardly ever got one....by the time I was a teenager I started experimenting with self spanking...I knew it was the closest I was going to get.

When I moved out on my own is when I started collecting paddles and empliments...switches are always easy to find ...then I discoverd via the internet that I was not alone..I couldnt belive it!

Recently I discovered I was even less alone than I thought...that my sister who is 5 years under me has always fantasized spankings...she is moving in with me this month and we plan to be spanking eachother for the rest of our lives!!! !!

[Nintendo Freak]

When I was quite little, me and my friends would often play spanking games (only when we could get out of sight of our parents). In fact, it was only one game, and it wasn't even a game at all. It had no rules; we just took turns "spanking" eachother. We never spanked hard and it was never on the bare or anything like that (they were usually OTK though). It had a name, "Spanky-Butt" (real creative, I know). Like I said, they weren't real spankings, they were more a source of humor than anything else.

As we grew we stopped playing them obviously, but I still remained interested. I often thought up elaborate spanking fantasies when I couldn't sleep at night. At this point I was interested in the spanking of both boys and girls, but I much preferred giving rather than recieving.

As hormones started to kick in my interest in spanking went on the back burner. I still kind of fancied the idea of spanking girls, but in general I sort of forgot about spanking at all. Then one day, in eight grade, that all changed. My parents weren't home, and the site I usually went to while home alone, Mooned.com (Yes, my motivation for going there was to look at ladies' bare bottoms) was suddenly shut down.

Well, I didn't want to waste some precious home alone time not looking at naked butts, so I started to search for another site (I didn't find one). Then, on a complete whim, I typed "spanking" into Google image search. In a manner of minutes I learned how wide spread the fascination with spanking really was. All my interest in spanking came flooding back and I've been hooked ever since.

Eventually, several years later, I found my way here. I still wonder if I wouldn't be interested in spanking today had I never googled "spanking."

[dabillmann]

I think I was always into it, but I never really understood. i never liked being spanked, but I would usually get a thrill when I knew another kid was goiing to get one, or if I saw them get one, especially girls! I guess i really realised it when i was about 12, when I discovered masturbation. Inevitably, images of an actress, or some girl or woman I knew would wind up in my head, and eventually, I would just start out thinking about those images. I thought I was a freak for a few years, until I read a letter in Playboy about a girl who discovered she liked spanking when she was about 15. then i found some letters in Penthouse, and one or two spanking scenes in photo shoots for a magazine called Oui. And of course, i would see a few scenes in comic books or comic strips or cartoons. When i was in my early 20's I found some spanking magazines, started drawing my wown pictures, and started playfully/sexually spanking my girlfriend, who is now my wife. she was just indulging me though, as she does not share the fetish, and yes, we do have some marital problems bacause of it, which I am not sure if we can work out. (It's not JUST spanking, but i won't bore you all with the rest.)
Thanks to her not sharing the fetish, I always thought that even among the spanking community, I was a freak for being SO into it. then, we got a new computer and signed up for AOL. now I see, through this site and others that I am not alone. I KNEW I was not alone in the interest, but now I know that others share my interest to a similar degree.

[Mushy]

Hrm, I think I've been into spanking since I can remember. o.O; I mean, I have hereditary insomnia issues in my family, but I think fantasizing about getting spanked has always been very unhelpful in conquering that insomnia. I tend to lie in bed for hours and think about spanking.

I've probably been into spanking since I was 4, if not younger. >.>; I can't really say where it came from, because it was so early. I just remember when I was younger that I would touch myself (not necessarily masturbate) when I thought of spanking - and that I wasn't even in school yet (I didn't enter until I was 5, at kindergarten). ^^; I was raised being spanked, but I believe that's not really the connection. I believe I was born a spanko, but discovering it...well, I might have discovered it so early from being spanked. All I know is that I was very serious and attempted to behave perfectly as a child to avoid feeling violated from being hit by family - and epically failed. ^^; Well, I was serious, but I was also a very angry, depressed kid. Because I thought of myself as a freak and was feeling so alone, I tried suicide even at like...age 7. D=

I try hard now to think of spanking in a more happy light. Consenting partners makes me happy - though for some reason it never applies much to myself. I pretend I don't want to be spanked, but the thrill of fighting it and the rush of adrenaline make it more pleasurable for me! xD But I love consenting partners - I have a softspot for anything really pretty. So violence or aggressive behavior sometimes ruins that. xD If there's something comical going on, I appreciate it all the more. ^^; I love having fun with my fetish now - now that I accept that I'm not alone, that I am normal.

I have to thank one of my close friends - I see her as a sister. Because of one little thing we had in common, we talked about a lot of other things. I told her about my spanking fetish, and she accepted it. She's always let me be myself - even parts that are very ugly about me. But she will tell me the truth - she'll accept who I am, but when I do something irrational or wrong she'll tell me as much. =) Her honesty has saved me - and because of her, I was more confident about myself. She even joined animebrats with me when I first found that site. She sees a lot of my art over MSN, while others see it here. ^^;

Sil also helps me. She makes spanking so much fun! I met her here (well, we only know each other online)...and so I've been inspired by her to try once again to always draw when I feel like drawing.

So I went from being into spanking to being even more heavily into it. It seems like something very addictive to me, because I can have more fun with it! I think that my spanking fascination was probably more toned down when I was younger, but the result was seeing me as a closed up shell - an overly serious child that didn't have anything on common with a child.

Now I'm a child at heart, but I'm an adult. ^_^ And I think in just the year this site has been opened, my interest in spanking has grown about...30%? Which is pretty significant. ^^;

And I'm just healthier and happier. =D (Yes, now I'm just trying to say, "ignore that I was depressed please - that's not what I want people to focus on. That is stuff I don't want to focus on myself. Unfortunately, that was part of the development of my spanking interest, and had to be said.)

[hankiespankie]

I can't pin it down to one event, I remember being fascinated by spanking from an early age. I saw spankings on TV sometimes when I was growing up, and heard about other kids at school getting smacked. I was never spanked properly by either parent, just the occasional smack. I would have liked at least one formal over the knee hand spanking.

I kept an eye on the TV listings looking for films/TV shows about public schools/boarding schools as there was always a promise of corporal punishment in those.

I knew it was something that needed to be ket quiet as I knew wanting to be spanked wasn't normal. I used to look at stories that featured spankings, canings etc. and used to start self-spanking which kept me going until much later when as an adult I started getting the spankings I wanted.

[Look]

Originally Posted by hankiespankie

I kept an eye on the TV listings looking for films/TV shows about public schools/boarding schools as there was always a promise of corporal punishment in those.

Yeah, me too - in the times before the internet you had to grab any straw.

My start into spanking were the drawings of Wilhelm Busch (the most famous spanking is in "Plitsch & Plum"). Although there were only m/m-spankings (not my favourite), they gave my a strange tension, I couldn't understand till puberty.

[Crash-Bash]

I got into spanking, as is the best of my understanding, at the age of 4 or 5. The person who started the interest in it was one of my old neighbours, who'd often babysit for me. And, yes, she did spank me at varying levels...sometimes serious, but most often playfully (although I do recall her being a very powerful woman, so they were noticable either way). I guess that taught me that spanking wasn't just something to dread, even if that was the intentional idea.

It's also worth a note that, between her and my parents, only SHE did the over-the-knee, more-than-one-hit-wonder job. Obviously, I never told my parents this, and I still haven't.

It's also not surprising that my favourite episodes of cartoons such as Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes and The Simpsons, are ones with spanking scenes in them.