I wrote a draft of this probably eight years ago, after stumbling across a vigorous spanking scene in a Zane Grey short story. This is when 50 Shades of Grey was THE phenomena sweeping the literary world and the masses were seemingly just discovering the wonderful world of spanking and BDSM. It was with irony that I kept running across spanking in so many vintage western comics, movies, and books, suggesting that the love of a spanking was not a new phenomenon.
I knew that, of course. I’ve read Anne Rice’s stories under her naughty pseudonyms, the Story of O, 9 1/2 Weeks, a lot of Victorian smut, an erotic novel that Oscar Wilde put out under a pseudonym, and even made my way through the Marquis de Sade back in a college political philosophy class (that was the only week that the class unanimously agreed to stay late- eventually the next class had to kick us out). I know that…
I just never expected to see it so much in classic westerns. Perhaps it's because I had never seen McLintock, the grand daddy of cowboy spanking. For example, here's a good read:
Eight Lessons from John Wayne's McLintock
Is this just a hetero thing? I wish I could remember where I found this (Reddit?) but this is from a gay cowboy dating page when someone objects to being asked if he likes spanking:
"WHAT THE FUCK? I don't get it. Any guy spank me will be picking teeth out of his shit for a week. I am strictly into man on man as equals. I need a good guy to turn me on not some game. Being my partner is not some role jut anyone can fill. But whatever it takes I guess?"
They don't call it "Slap Leather" for nothin'!
The title of the post is a friendly poke at the video "Lesbian Spank Inferno" that is constantly referenced in the British sitcom "Coupling".
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