Motivation - 1

The whole point of spanking fiction is that someone gets spanked.    There are two important pieces of information that an author may wish to tell the reader:  why the spanker wants to spank, and why the spankee wants/allows/accepts the spanking.   We shall deal with the spankee in a future post.

The reader - and the writer - knows that spanking has an arousing effect that is very difficult to explain to the vanilla community.   Even the harshest discipline spanking can ignite a fire in the spanko:  provided that it is a fantasy.   The vast majority of spankos are as horrified of excessive pain as anyone else.   It is when it is clearly unreal that it can add spice.

That the spanker can get a buzz from the spanking is, at first sight, a little odd.   Pain is being imparted on some third party, and the pain the third party feels triggers an emotional/sensual response of a pleasurable nature.   Vanilla researchers have hypothesized many possibilities, from red buttocks being a sex signal to dark dominant/subserviant roles that adults have or play at having.

Well, the first thing to note is that surveys among spankos constantly reveal that about 75% got hooked at an age well before puberty (5 years old seems to tbe median), and about 25% long after puberty.   Spanking as foreplay is not associated with the sex drive being switched on.   In most spankos, a non-sexual fascination in spanking gets "attached" to sexual fantasy.   And for some, to sexaul activity itself.

Totally confusing and compounding the issue is that spanking is a common punishment for children.   The pros and cons of that are for another time and place.

But there is a brand of spanking fiction in which the spankee is a child.    And, on a personal note, that disturbs me.   The fantasy of non-consensual spankings can be a turn on:  but, for me, having children in such pieces is so close to kiddy-porn that I am unable to read, or write, such fiction.

So - the given motivation for the spanker in a tale is nominally just a device to make the set-up more realistic.   Regardless of the given reason "Doctor Johnson was a strict disciplinarian of the old school", the assumed reason is here is a person who has the power to inflict pain on someone's bottom.   If you are a spanker, you may empathize with the spanker's actions as a fantasy to inflame your own personal passions.