A question of gender

There is a shorthand convention to describe the participants in a spanking scene:  F=Adult Female, f=Young Female, M=Adult Male and m=Young Male.   Thus, a mother spanking her daughter can be shortened to F/f and the standard adult relationship is M/F.

You can play around with the letters to see if you get inspiration for some new angle you have not worked on before.   For example, is it possible to write a realistic scenario for bb/FF? - or, if the idea turns you on, could you create some quite fantastical episode where two lads end up walloping the backsides of two mature ladies?   M/Fffffff  suggests a headmaster who is tasked with caning several schoolgirls and their teacher to boot.    Highly improbable but not completely unworkable.   And so on.

It was in this way that I found one of my one road blocks in writing spanking fiction.   If find if I write a  F/M scene, it comes out awkwardly unrealistic and M/M is just downright impossible for me.    Not that I have anything against real world instances of M/M discipline, nor M/M as SSC conduct between consenting adults - it is just that I find no personal interest in writing about such events.  And when I constructed a plot that made a F/M scene inevitable, I had to find a collaborating author to construct something that was realistic and entertaining.

But I am not alone in this outlook.   Surveys suggest that a mere 2% of spankos want to read or view M/M spankings, and the number looking for such material is considerably smaller when the respondents are vanilla.

You need to take note that for entertainment purposes, the majority want to read about /F and /f spankings.   If you are catering for a niche audience, you don't need to worry - but if not, you ought to keep in mind what the average spanko reader wants, if you are going to rely on repeat readers.

Most of the time, our readers want and expect the person being spanked to be a female.   I am not a qualified psychologist, so can only surmise that the "normal" human mindset - that puts males into a more dominant and females into more submissive one - echoes a widespread belief of normal behavior, and therefore one that is more acceptable, in material meant to entertain us.

Try to imagine, for example, the final spanking scene in McLintock! with a role reversal - Maureen O'Hara now chases John Wayne all around town and eventually whacks him with a coal shovel,   It would be very hard for that version to come across as light-hearted and as natural as the scene we actually got.   I suppose it is all part of the human condition.

The F/F and F/f formats are more widely read, for it is a female bottom that gets whacked.   M/M and M/m are less easily read, for the majority of us really do not empathize with any degree of relish the thought of a male bottom getting whacked.    There are exceptions, but few and far between.

So if you should find that you are inspired to write a f/M, of a m/M tale that is not parody, but a serious attempt to entertain, do not be overly surprised if your readers do not praise you lavishly.