What causes Spanking Fetishes?
Well yeah, that’s something I’ve always wanted to know. I certenly love getting spanked by older guys and hot girls but I never knew why until I read this article:
One way for a child to cope with unintegratable trauma is to eroticize it. This can give the child a safe outlet for the dammed-up energy of the repressed emotions, and temporary relief from the continual task of repression. I am convinced that some (but not all) spanking fetishes, are eroticizations of childhood traumas.
The more a child loves a parent and depends for life upon the parent, the more problematic intense negative emotions aroused by spankings may become. The appropriate emotion when someone deliberately tortures us is hatred. But for a child to consciously experience hatred for a beloved parent would create an impossible double-bind. Repression of such unintegratable emotions from consciousness is the only “solution” available to the child. Repressed emotions do not disappear, of course, and their mobilized energy must be handled by the brain in such a manner as to prevent them from reaching conscious awareness. Eroticization of such emotions and of the traumatic events which inspired them appears to be one possible neural “strategy” for coping with the overload.
So, what do you think? Could this possilbly be right?
Love,
Claire
February 25th, 2009 at 1:10 am
It’s absolutely true. Spanking fetishes are the result of childhood trauma from receiving corporal punishment.