Even if putting the wife over your knee became considered ungentlemanly, for decades a series of riotous daughters in movies, comics and cartoons continued to get their bottoms spanked by exasperated fathers...
It got me thinking about what other films might feature nannies. I then saw your "perspective on spanking" and got sidetracked by that. Lawdy, those men look a right set, don't they? Of course you can never believe what you read in newspapers. Who knows, maybe they all worked in the print room, and some young journalist wrote their copy- "for a laugh".
But being of a certain age myself it got me thinking. Spanking was certainly much more prevalent and acceptable back when I was growing up, maybe not for the wife (lol as the young folks say) but certainly for the sassy teenage daughter. So as a counterpoint to that piece here's my old movie take on that, a shot of a typical film daughter of the period, charming, impudent and disobedient in equal measure getting her comeuppance, a comeuppance which it has to be said is hardly undeserved.
It's essentially played for laughs, but I guess it's a little morality tale as well, but quite inconceivable as a movie scene in the modern day. Intriguing. All the best, Michael.
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Methinks Michael has a spanking fetish and wants to indulge it by sparking yet another debate.
I kind of thought the same thing, really quickly, in passing, lol. Ah, it's just harmless humor, IMO.
I was spanked til I was 14yo. I'd be curious if others would share at what age they stopped getting spanked. AND, if there IS a tie to that and a spanking fetish?
Please don't make assumptions about the identity of other Posters.
Thanks.
i was spanked till iwas 14 by my dad. did not smoke drink, got straight a's, did not have a boyfriend - the spankings were always due to his anger issues which have not been resolved to this day - he is 85
just saw an episode of i love lucy where ricky "spanked" lucy to punish her. it made me very uncomfortable but i am sure got laughs at the time
'I love lucy' was my favorite show growing up, I used to watch it with my mom while sitting in her lap.
My dad had some anger issues, too. And I even saw him spank my mom once. I didn't find much humor in it myself. My family was very conservative. I'll bet it's not so much like that now, what with all the involvement from CPS and parents hardly being allowed to physically discipline their kids anymore before a neighbor or somebody calls the police.
Honestly, I hated it growing up, but I really was a good kid, never got in trouble, got good grades. But I see some of the kids nowadays, they are soooo out of control! It scares me, it really does.
I guess 14 must be the cut off, huh? I remember getting spanked at that age, too. We used to have an apple tree in our backyard and when me or my siblings got into more than serious trouble, our dad would make us go out there and pick a switch from the tree for punishment. Somehow, I think that trek from the den to the backyard made it more painful! It didn't take long for us to figure out that the thin little branches were the worst ones! Boy oh boy, I can still feel the sting of those little suckers wrapping around my legs! My family was a bit old-fashioned too, my mom practically lived in the kitchen, never doled out the discipline, that was dad's job. I guess thats the way it was for most of us growing up in the 50's and 60's.
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