A few weeks ago, I wrote one long story for the holiday stories — 5200+ words — and then was talking to one of my partners about it. She commented that “there are only so many ways to write a spanking scene”. I mean, yes, but also no, right?

I went back and looked at everything in my “previews” category. Here’s the spanking scenes I’ve posted in the past 12 months:

1. F/F spanking in a hotel room at a spanking party
2. M/F funishment spanking with hand
3. M/F bedtime spanking
4. M/F general spanking scene
5. M/F funishment belt spanking
6. F/M punishment belt spanking
7. M/F general spanking scene #2
8. M/F hairbrush spanking in an apartment
9. FF/M spanking in a hotel room at a spanking party
10. M/F punishment paddle spanking
11. F/M spanking scene in a hotel room at a spanking party
12. M/F consensual but unwanted spanking
13. F/F fun spanking scene
14. M self-spanking
15. F/F spanking in the back room of a store
16. M/F spanking, followed by F/M funishment spanking
17. M/M superhero spanking
18. M/F punishment wooden spoon spanking
19. M/F punishment ruler spanking
20. F/M consensual spanking
21. M/F first spanking

I will say, however, that writing the actual mechanics of a spanking scene can get boring from time to time. I’m sure writers reuse scenes, changing details and names here and there. Hell, most Chuck Tingle M/M sex books are basically the same scene over and over again; it’s what comes around the scene that you read the books for. The plot, the character development, the setting, the worldbuilding; all of it makes the actual sex scene (or, in my case, the actual spanking scene) worth reading.

Is it stealing if I steal it from myself?