1. RESEARCH ON PLEASURE WIDELY
HIDDNEN YET LOVED

2. EROTIC SPANKING
 Erotic spanking (also known as spankophilia) is the act of
spanking another person for the sexual arousal or gratification
of either or both parties. Activities range from a spontaneous
smack on bare buttocks during a sexual activity, to occasional
sexual roleplay (such as ageplay) to domestic discipline and
may involve the use of a hand or the use of a variety of
spanking implements, such as a spanking paddle or cane.[1]
Erotic spanking may be administered to bare buttocks or
normally dressed. Spanking can involve the use of bondage.
 Erotic spankings are commonly combined with other forms of
sexual foreplay, such as oral sex, sexual roleplaying and/or
ageplay. The most common type of erotic amateur spanking
and domination is administered on the bare buttocks, but can
also be combined with bondage, in order to heighten sexual
arousal and feelings of helplessness.
 Many cultures describe pain as an aphrodisiac. For
example, the Kama Sutra, in particular, goes into specific
detail on how to properly strike a partner during sex.

3. HISTORY AND LITERATURE
 The origins and scope of erotic spanking and flagellation are
largely unknown. One of the earliest depictions of erotic
flagellation is found in a 6th century BC Etruscan burial site
named in modern times the Tomba della Fustigazione or "Tomb
of Flogging" after its depictions of eroticized flagellation.
 Representations of erotic spanking and flagellation make up a
large portion of Victorian pornography (see 1000 Nudes by
Koetzle.) Hundreds of thousands of
engravings, photographs, and/or literary depictions of spanking
and flagellation ("birching") fantasies circulated during the
Victorian era, including erotic novellas like The Whippingham
Papers, The Birchen Bouquet, Exhibition of Female Flagellants
or the pornographic comic opera Lady Bumtickler's Revels. Many
well-known people since their deaths have been discovered to
enjoy spankings for erotic purposes or emotional gratification
including renowned British Army officer T. E. Lawrence
("Lawrence of Arabia"), influential English theatre critic Kenneth
Tynan, TV broadcaster Frank Bough, and English writer John
Mortimer.
 Also the singer Aaliyah

4. IMPLEMENTS
 A spanking may be carried out with the use of a
bare hand, or with any of a variety of
implements, including a paddle, strap, hairbrush or
belt. Other popular tools are canes, riding
crops, whips, switches, birches, sneakers, rolled-up
newspapers, rulers or martinet.

5. COSTUME
 A spank skirt (also called a spanking skirt) has an
additional opening in back designed to expose the
buttocks. While the name spank skirt suggests that the
wearer could be spanked "bare bottom" without
removing or repositioning the skirt, this item may be
worn for reasons other than spanking (for instance,
exposure).
 Considered fetish wear, spank skirts are typically tight-
fitting and made of fetishistic materials (such as leather,
PVC or latex).
 Regardless of the gender of the wearer, spank skirts are
usually considered female attire. The male gender role
equivalent might be motorcycle chaps.
 Other garments associated with spanking as well as
humiliation are ruffled or rhumba panties, women's
panties with rows of ruffles on the rear panel or outside.

6. APPARATUS
 A spanking bench or spanking horse is a piece of furniture used to position a
spankee on, with or without restraints. They come in many sizes and styles, the
most popular of which is similar to a sawhorse with a padded top and rings for
restraints.
 The 19th century British dominatrix Mrs Theresa Berkley became famous for her
invention of the Berkley Horse, a similar form of BDSM apparatus.
 Those who are interested in the practice giving or receiving erotic spankings are
sometimes referred to spankophiles. Examples include the poet Algernon
Swinburne (as implied repeatedly in his poetry) and the philosopher Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, as detailed in his autobiography Confessions:
 ... Miss Lambercier... exerted a mother's authority, even to inflicting on us... the
punishment of infants... Who would believe this childish discipline, received at
eight years old, from the hands of a woman of thirty, should influence my
propensities, my desires, my passions, for the rest of my life... To fall at the feet of
an imperious mistress, obey her mandates, or implore pardon, were for me the
most exquisite enjoyments, and the more my blood was inflamed by the efforts of a
lively imagination the more I acquired the appearance of a whining lover.”
 Howard Stern's paddle machine, the "Robospanker", has been used on his show
to spank numerous guests,, including Jessica Jaymes, Jennifer Krum, Haydn
Porter, Tabitha Stevens, Victoria Zdrok, and Valentina Vaughn.

7. SPANKING POSITIONS
 In some cultures, the spanking of women, by the male head of the family or by the
husband (sometimes called domestic discipline) has been and sometimes
continues to be a common and approved custom. In those cultures and in those
times it was the belief that the husband, as head of the family, had a right and even
the duty to discipline his wife and children when he saw fit, and manuals were
available to instruct the husband how to discipline his household. In most western
countries, this practice has come to be regarded as unlawful and socially
unacceptable wife-beating, domestic violence or abuse. Routine corporal
punishment of women by their husbands, however, does still exist in some parts of
the developing world, and still occurs in isolated cases in western countries.
 Today, spanking of an adult tends to be confined to erotic spanking or to BDSM
contexts. The domestic discipline scenario is commonly invoked in erotic
spanking, but with a bare bottom or totally nude, with bondage and less direct
physical contact being a feature of BDSM.
 Spanking can be administered in a number of spanking positions. The choice of
position takes into account the spankee's (bottom) comfort in the position for long
periods of time, the spanker's (top) ability to swing at the spankee at a
comfortable, natural angle, complete access to the spankee's buttocks, the
spanker's control of the spankee's position and ability to readjust as
necessary, safety, and the amount of strength the top is able to generate from such
a position. Positions can also be chosen specifically for added effects such as
increased humiliation, elevation and suspension.

8. MATERIALS CONSIDERING THIS SUBJECT
 Koetzle, Michael. 1000 Nudes: A History of Erotic
Photography from 1839-1939. Taschen, 2005.
 Lady Green, The Compleat Spanker. Greenery
Press, 2000. ISBN 1-890159-00-X.
 Marcus, Steven. The Other Victorians. Basic
Books, 1966.
 Rousseau, Jean-Jaques. The Confessions of Jean-
Jaques Rousseau. London: Penguin Books, 1953.
 Swinburne, Charles Algernon. The Works of
Charles Algernon Swinburne. Hertfordshire:
Wordsworth Editions, 1995.