http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png http://jezebel.com/tag/spanking http://jezebel.com/tag/spanking

We've heard that women's interest in sex tends to decline over the course of a relationship, but now a study shows that most married women still think sex is an important part of their marriage. And some of the things they do to keep things lively are somewhat bizarre. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5883826&view=rss&microfeed=true

Spanking has long been part of the American parenting repertoire, and it's been the source of plenty of controversy. Any kid that's ever been spanked knows it's scary as hell, and, for that reason alone, plenty of parents refuse to do it. But there are still many that swear by it as an effective disciplinary tool. Swear though they may, a new review of twenty years worth of research on the effects of spanking kids has found conclusively that it doesn't work—and worse, it can actually do long-term damage to kids. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5882860&view=rss&microfeed=true

To anyone who thinks workplace sexual harassment is always a subtle, he-said-she-said affair, we submit the case of Australian naval lieutenant John Alan Jones, who's just been sentenced to jail time for repeatedly spanking a female subordinate. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5867961&view=rss&microfeed=true

A man in Virginia has pled guilty to criminal actions associated with what he says is a scholarship program. Three women received money from the man to use for educational expenses, and in return, the man got to spank them when they "misbehaved." And you thought the Miss America pageant was a dubious scholarship program. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5866447&view=rss&microfeed=true

Sweden became the first country to outlaw physical punishment of children in 1979. Now, the first generation of Swedish young adults to have been raised in a spanking-free society is in its thirties. Contrary to what your cantankerous, defensive grandpa might suggest, the entire country hasn't turned into a bunch of spoiled namby pamby brats. But would similar anti-spanking laws ever fly stateside? More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5858549&view=rss&microfeed=true

The perennial debate over physically disciplining children was revived this week when a Texas woman went before a judge for spanking her daughter, who was nearly two years old at the time. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5813452&view=rss&microfeed=true

The singer tells Access Hollywood that her parents booted her from home when she was 15: "I deserved it. I would have kicked me out when I was eight... I was not comfortable with authority or rules. I was bad." More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5679538&view=rss&microfeed=true

The first article by Jessica Wakeman that stuck in my head was about her reconciling her feminism with being spanked. It didn't get the best reception, but I asked her to talk more about reconciling feminism and BDSM. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5666107&view=rss&microfeed=true

Yes. Definitely. Getting smacked on the bottom by an octogenarian should solve her problems. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5629451&view=rss&microfeed=true

According to a study led by Professor Marjorie Gunhoe of Calvin College, children who are physically disciplined between the ages of two and six end up being more successful and well-adjusted than peers who had never been "smacked." More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5439153&view=rss&microfeed=true

Sociological Images has come across a trailer for the film The Killer Inside Me and it's disturbing. Caution: We've rated it NSFW, Spoiler Alert, and Serious Trigger Warning. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5401274&view=rss&microfeed=true

Oh dear. Oh no. It seems today's anti-spanking, "pregnancy-flaunting, soccer-cheering, organic-snack-proffering generation of parents" have a dark secret: sometimes they yell at their kids. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5387716&view=rss&microfeed=true

One New Year's, my family went to stay at one of those Catskills resorts, now closed, that catered to Jews of a certain era. Think Dirty Dancing with less Swayze, more sour cream. And one day someone smacked a child: More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5380677&view=rss&microfeed=true

According to a study, kids who were spanked at age one were more likely to be aggressive at two, and cognitively behind their peers at three. Verbal punishment didn't seem to produce these ill effects. [CNN] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5360910&view=rss&microfeed=true

Sociologist Brian P. Hinote says many parents in the Bible Belt are tolerant of spanking, citing the phrase, "spare the rod, spoil the child." Southern kids are apparently spanked in school more as well...something we didn't realize was legal. [UPI] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5318500&view=rss&microfeed=true

Alan Kazdin at Slate has one more reason not to hit your kids: it may be (sort of) addictive. That is, just as the occasional cigarette can lead to a smoking habit, "there's a strong natural tendency to escalate the frequency and severity of punishment." In fact, more than a third of parents who use corporal punishment "end up crossing the line drawn by the state to define child abuse: hitting with an object, harsh and cruel hitting, and so on." That's in part because kids (the crafty little bastards) adapt to each punishment, making parents more likely to choose harsher ones. And, in the short term, hitting your kid may seem to work. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5054734&view=rss&microfeed=true

"In those days," George Orwell writes of his bleak boarding school experience in the early 20th century, "[bed wetting] was looked on as a disgusting crime which the child committed on purpose and for which the proper cure was a beating." But according to the Economist, even the brutal Brits of Orwell's youth might be going slack, as corporal punishment by parents and school teachers against children has been widely banned in Europe and parts of South America. But in the good old U.S. of A, spanking is still A-Ok, as parents and teachers are still allowed to give unruly children a swift swat on the rear. Didja know that it's up to each state to decide whether or not to allow teachers to physically punish schoolchildren, and that, in the 22 states that allow it, nearly 300,000 children were beaten last year? More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5011871&view=rss&microfeed=true

Are you sexually deviant? If you're reading this blog, the answer is probably yes. Well it's possible us freaks have an excuse for it. A new study shows that people who were spanked as children are more likely to engage in "risky sexual behavior...[and] masochistic sex, including sexual arousal by spanking," according to USA Today. The study seems vaguely worded and within the USA Today article there are numerous disclaimers from experts. Even the leader of the study, Murray Straus, co-director of the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire-Durham says "[Spanking] increases the chances of sexual problems, [though] it's not a one-to-one causation." Another expert, Robert Larzelere of Oklahoma State University, says of spanking, "Like any discipline tactic, it depends on how it's used." More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=361994&view=rss&microfeed=true