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>Hi Victoria! I read your post with real interest and >empathy! I myself grew up in the 50s and 60s when >America really was a very different place to what it >is both now and in more recent times! Parents and >other adults really did have enormous power and >authority. Spanking back then really was the norm! >As it continued to be in the 70s and to a slightly >lesser extent in the early to mid 80s. Like you I had >those conflicting and ambivalent feelings of on the >one hand excitement, curiosity and as I hit pubity >sexual arousal; and then on the other hand sympathy, >compassion and sadness for their coming ordeal! Since >I knew just how much spankings HURT!!!! Also I was >acutely aware of the humiliation and embarrassment >that went with them! All spankings I received, >witnessed and saw were old fashioned bare bottom ones >in those days, so the exposure of the buttocks and >genetalia was both inevitable and inescapable. I >often felt guilt and shame at the feelings of >excitement and sexual arousal that I felt when seeing >and even hearing a spanking being administered! Other >kids that I spoke to at the time and also older adults >who I speak to now say that they too had those same >conflicting emotions! On reflection I think for >people who grew up back in the 'spanking years' such >conflicting emotions were inescapable ones!

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