Marry Me

The pilot episode of a new sitcom called "Marry Me" had a quick one swat to the butt of the female lead.

It was an "atta girl" spank from the left hand of the lead male (I think left hand is code for "not as hard as it could be").  The accompanying sound effect was fairly meaty.

And her reaction?   The best I an describe it is one of eye-wide polite disbelief.   Our mainstream scriptwriters are still struggling with the new-age acceptance of spanks between consulting adults as both tokens of affection as well as signals of interest in making some much more personal interaction.

In the world at large, we now regularly see sports players give "well done" swats to fellow team members (it was all very quick, but I suspect that Abby Wambauch gave a fellow soccer player such a swat to a team mate in the recent CONCACAF cup final game).    Even a "So You Think You Can Dance" got a "We with you" sort of swat on one show when told that she was in danger of being eliminated from the contest.

This is the new age of acceptance of spanks between adults - but our stalwart script writers are having a hard time of coming to terms with it.  Perhaps they are of our ilk - they certainly do seem to seize every opportunity to get some mild spank activity into an episode - but are still in the closet and are hiding their true knowledge of what it all about.   No - that cannot be right.

Perhaps we should all drop a line to sitcom writers to let them know how to give a true portrayal of what we do.   For we spankos are very helpful souls when it comes to assisting our fellow men ...