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| Where spanking and paddling occur in America | | Men spanking or paddling teen and adult women occurs in homes, public and private schools, religious institutions like churches and camps, “homes” for kids, “disciplinary camps or youth ranches where children are sent to be “straightened out” with religious or government funding, in foster care homes in states that allow it, at “Christian disciplinary homes” where men are in the “business” of “disciplinary counseling” other people’s children with naked videotaped beating sessions, college fraternities and sororities, the homes of uncles or friend’s dads, the workplace as a form of sexual harassment, video studios during the production of adult spanking erotic materials, Southern strip bars that feature “live school paddling” of young women on stage for the sexually aroused, mostly middle aged, male audience, and in the bedroom between consenting adults for sexual arousal. The latter “openly sexual” spankings between intimates are sometimes “playful and light” with some couples but, with others, are very brutal and severe, just as they were beaten as children. | | Of course we can’t “paint with a broad brush.” Not every institution does these things. There are many private homes, uncle’s homes, church institutions, childcare settings, college fraternities, private schools, and public schools where children are never beaten, hit, spanked, or paddled. The actual number of such incidences, and age and gender considerations are, at this point, however, completely unknown. Even the public school paddlings are grossly underreported, and there is no attempt by anyone whatsoever to determine how much beating is going on in any other setting. | | Nonetheless school paddling is correlated with high rate and sexually abusive spanking practices in other venues. In the high paddling states male school staff often paddle adult women even more than younger girls. The women are “trained to submit” to spanking into adulthood. The boss may spank them on their first job or two. The private schools are generally worse, and do worse things, in any state they operate in. They paddle much less when they are located in a “non-paddling state” (for public schools), but sometimes do paddle even in those otherwise enlightened states. They also tend to be more abusive than the public schools in the high paddling states. Most Catholic schools in Michigan, if not all, to my knowledge, do not paddle, for example, while I have heard of several Catholic schools and church camps in our interviews in the South which paddle very abusively. Many force teen girls to strip “bare butt,” or down to panties, and some produce of videos of the near-naked beatings of attractive teen victims. Private schools tend to “sink to the lowest level” allowed. They follow “behind the curve” of whatever the public schools are doing. There is no record whatsoever of what goes on in the private schools—other than “videos of paddlings” or whatever other “information” they may wish to collect and store for their own reasons. There is very little, if any, oversight. Some frats likewise don’t paddle at all, others may do a slight ceremonial one, others a very hard one at initiation, and others dish out hard paddlings for “discipline” as well. In some frats the students “trade hard paddlings” with each other from time to time as a “contest” of some sort to “see who can take it” the best. This is likely a sad remnant from many of these students attending paddling schools where they were praised for “taking a hard paddling” well. The high paddling frats, like the hitting private schools, are more often located in paddling states—not coincidentally. The vast majority of uncles and “friend’s dads” in non-paddling states, even ones who spank their own kids, would not “take it upon themselves” to spank other people’s kids or their niece. These types of stories are, however, very common in high paddling areas of the South. We've heard numerous accounts of uncles who administer “bare butt spankings” to their teen nieces and daughter’s teen girlfriends who are staying all night. | | 23 states allow public school paddling—and a handful of those carry it on with great zeal. According to the most recent data available at the time I’m writing: | | The “top ten,” highest hitting, paddling states, in descending order from the worst paddlers to the least, are: Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Georgia, Texas, Missouri, and New Mexico. (1997-1998 Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Compliance Report.) | | The other thirteen states that paddle are: Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Wyoming. |
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