I don’t think that being exposed to innocent punishment style media like that turns people kinky.

And there are books that are still commonly read so eventually the kid will probably stumble over them, but it won’t be everywhere like it was for the older spankos.

Sure, some of the older cartoons still show up on tv. Not until you are old enough to be looking at romance. They don’t really appear in modern books either. You don’t see spankings in kid’s shows or cartoons anymore. Those growing up now probably won’t get that thrill. Those who were spanked for punishment (The kinky community seems to be fairly evenly divided on those who were and those who weren’t.) certainly didn’t want it and tried to avoid it.īut reading it or watching it was a whole different thing. Kids who were kinky from a young age didn’t like being punished. That was a lot for a kid to feel, especially when you had no idea why you felt that way. The closest I can come to what it felt like to stumble across a spanking would be giddy anxiousness mixed with eagerness and embarrassment. And the excitement isn’t the same kind that an adult feels. Of course, at that age you’re too young to know why something excites you. But in a book, you could read it over and over again- exciting! It was doubly exciting because there were spankings in the show too, which I had loved. It was a scene in the Little House books. When I found my first spanking in a book, I was probably about eight. I still remember being as young as five and absolutely fascinated with spankings in cartoons. Sometimes they were just brief mentions-other times they were fairly descriptive.įor those of us who developed an interest in spanking from a young age these scenes were gold mines. He also threatens to abandon her, which is more distressing to Edith than the corporal punishment (hmm… father and brother abandoning little girl… sounds familiar, right?).Everyone who is at least twenty-five probably remembers when spankings in kid’s books used to be common. Bear grimly puts up with it until Edith one day plays dress-up with her never-seen, never-mentioned owner’s makeup and gowns without permission, so he puts her over his knee and spanks her bottom. Like most kids, they get into all sorts of mischief. Bear becomes a father figure his presumed son Little Bear becomes her brother and best friend. To sum up the first book, which was published in 1957 and introduces the characters-and the controversy surrounding them-Edith is a despairing doll living alone in a grand NYC mansion until one day two stuffed bears inexplicably arrive on the scene. There are ten books in the Lonely Doll series, three of which were reissued in the late 1990s by Houghton Mifflin (including the first) but I’m writing up The Lonely Doll Learns a Lesson because I scored the first edition at a library sale a few years ago.

The lonely doll book