I’ve been looking at spanking images on my computer since the 1990s. Over the years I’ve found several classic ones that are reminders of what I used to see, back in the day. Here are three of them:

(A man paddles a girl with her skirt up and panties down as she screams in pain. She is over his lap.)

Given the way he’s holding that paddle, I’m not sure he’s actually spanking her, but it certainly looks realistic at first glance.

(Image by Nu-West: a woman has a short-haired blond girl over her lap. The girl is crying as her bare bottom is paddled.)

This one, on the other hand, definitely looks more realistic.

(A long-haired blond girl is bent over the back of a chair, her pants down, in tears as she is spanked on her bare bottom.)

I’ve seen various versions of this one, and I think she’s being paddled.

These three images look an awful lot like punishment spankings, and given that what we see when we’re in our formative years… well… forms us… this is probably why, for the first part of my life (as it relates to BDSM), I thought spankings should only be for punishment and they required marks and tears to be considered successful. I have since learned the error of my ways. I mean, marks and tears are great, but they’re not the be-all-end-all.