Foreword
SPANKING. To many, the word is associated solely with the discipline of small children. However, there are others who know better. And the number of those in the latter category has been constantly on the rise in recent years as the public achieves a greater awareness of the various highways and bi-ways of human sexuality. For, the fact is that spanking and sex are inextricably inter-related, so much so that it is often quite impossible to separate the two.
What accounts for the relationship between spanking and sex? In the first place, there is the element of pain. Although it is not often consciously realized, sex is pain and pain is sex. In fact, among many animals the sexual act is indeed highly painful. As but one example there is the cat family, where the male penis is highly barbed and causes excruciating pain during the act of intercourse. And among human beings it has taken many years of study of the significance of foreplay to eliminate the pain that can accompany the sex act when the partners are insufficiently prepared. As a result, the human mind unconsciously associates sex with pain and suffering.
Moreover, the act of spanking is itself a symbolic re-enactment of sexual intercourse. The hairbrush or other punishment weapon is, of course, a substitute phallus. The traditional over-the-knee position is a substitute for the sexual position which allows very close contact of the genitalia. Red, of course, is the color of sex and red is the color associated with spanking, and the cries of the victim often simulate the cries of sexual activity. It is therefore not surprising that sexual arousal often occurs when spankings are administered, even when the motives are disciplinary rather than erotic.
Thus, we can see the sexual connotations of spanking that are constantly in the background of any disciplinary situation. In this book we will observe the latent sexual implications of spanking at first hand. Beverly Taylor, a vivacious seventeen-year-old baby sitter, spanks the two adolescent young boys in her charge and the results are quite predictable. Discipline becomes sex disguised as discipline. And when the boys' father, Howard Shepard, discovers what is going on, he decides to give Beverly a taste of her own medicine. But that, too, is an explosive situation, and one spanking scene leads to another.
Although a work of friction, Spanking the Babysitter is an analytical, scholarly and comprehensive study of the inherent relationship between sex and spanking. It is also a study of changing sexual attitudes and mores in the era of the Sexual Revolution. We accordingly recommend Spanking the Babysitter to all readers, and especially those who want a deeper understanding of the erotic connotations of spanking.
-THE PUBLISHER