Spanking

Spanking isn't harassment when everyone's included!
An appeals court overturns a ruling in favor of a woman spanked at work.
To spank or not to spank?
New proposed Massachusetts legislation aims to make all corporal punishment illegal.
Spare the rod, spoil the wife
Just how "Christian" is "domestic discipline"?
He spanks in anger
I've seen my brother-in-law strike his kid, and I no longer want him as guardian.
Spanking mad
A California bill could make spanking a crime. But when did a swat on the bum become child abuse? And how far should the government go in telling parents how to raise their children?
What else we're reading
A philosophical defense of the Pussycat Dolls. Also, parents to blame for anorexia?
Spare the quarter-inch plumbing supply line, spoil the child
Saying no to "timeouts," some fundamentalist Christians "train up" their children by carefully hitting them with switches, PVC pipes and other "chastening instruments."
Next time, let's all spank the boss
A California woman sues her company after being paddled during a motivational event.
The paddle's infinite sting
Corporal punishment at school leaves temporary welts and permanent shame.
Thai one on
A sex survey in several Asian countries reveals a special love of spanking in one nation.
A hero's retreat
Dad hit us, Mom watched, and then -- a miracle.
"I Was a Teenage Dominatrix"
Ooooh! That's gotta hurt! Shawna Kenney cracks the whip and gets paid for the pain of writing a memoir.
Whip me, spank me, gentrify me
A strange new romance is brewing between bourgeois taste and S/M styles.
Ally McSqueal?
Nell and Cage: Crack team. Is she experienced? Bonnie Raitt spills all. Plus: The King and I -- Carter and Presley, together again.
High noon for nurturers
Penelope Leach faces off with the Ezzos in a nasty turf war. Someone needs a spanking.
The gentlemanly art of spanking
When women turn the other cheek, what are they asking for?
Spanking: A black mother's view
The survival legacy of slavery taught blacks to spank more than whites -- and that's why you don't see as many black kids having public tantrums.
To spank or not to spank
A husband from the working class squares off with his gently bred wife.

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