Spanking

  • Spanking isn't harassment when everyone's included!

    An appeals court overturns a ruling in favor of a woman spanked at work.
    By Tracy Clark-Flory January 18, 2008

  • To spank or not to spank?

    New proposed Massachusetts legislation aims to make all corporal punishment illegal.
    By Carol Lloyd November 29, 2007

  • Spare the rod, spoil the wife

    Just how "Christian" is "domestic discipline"?
    By Lynn Harris August 22, 2007

  • He spanks in anger

    I've seen my brother-in-law strike his kid, and I no longer want him as guardian.
    By Cary Tennis March 20, 2007

  • 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?
    By Eilene Zimmerman February 5, 2007

  • What else we're reading

    A philosophical defense of the Pussycat Dolls. Also, parents to blame for anorexia?
    By Tracy Clark-Flory January 22, 2007

  • 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."
    By Lynn Harris May 25, 2006

  • Next time, let's all spank the boss

    A California woman sues her company after being paddled during a motivational event.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski April 27, 2006

  • The paddle's infinite sting

    Corporal punishment at school leaves temporary welts and permanent shame.
    By Ted Gup September 4, 2001

  • Thai one on

    A sex survey in several Asian countries reveals a special love of spanking in one nation.
    By Jack Boulware March 16, 2001

  • A hero's retreat

    Dad hit us, Mom watched, and then -- a miracle.
    By Margaret Finnegan February 23, 2001

  • "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.
    By Stephen Lemons April 20, 2000

  • Whip me, spank me, gentrify me

    A strange new romance is brewing between bourgeois taste and S/M styles.
    By Annalee Newitz January 15, 2000

  • Ally McSqueal?

    Nell and Cage: Crack team. Is she experienced? Bonnie Raitt spills all. Plus: The King and I -- Carter and Presley, together again.
    By Amy Reiter January 11, 2000

  • High noon for nurturers

    Penelope Leach faces off with the Ezzos in a nasty turf war. Someone needs a spanking.
    By Shelley Emling October 26, 1999

  • The gentlemanly art of spanking

    When women turn the other cheek, what are they asking for?
    By Carson Fitzgerald January 7, 1999

  • 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.
    By Karen Grigsby Bates October 7, 1998

  • To spank or not to spank

    A husband from the working class squares off with his gently bred wife.
    By Albert Mobilio October 7, 1998
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