Spanking Blog: Adult Erotic Spanking At Its Best

Let’s face it. Spanking Blog ain’t a progressive bastion, and it probably never will be. With most of 5,000 posts under my well-oiled heavy leather belt, there are certain readily observable patterns. I like to see (and share) spanking porn featuring men who spank women. I don’t usually think too hard about the gender labels in that sentence, either.

And you know what? Dominant men spanking submissive women is… well, it’s not progressive. It’s downright retro, in fact. It’s not incompatible with progressive politics or lifestyles or people, because it’s also play. And when we play, we get to put on costumes and assume roles and enter fully and enthusiastically into fantasies. So that’s fine. It doesn’t mean that we want to make the world more like our fantasies and play. But there’s no point pretending that our maledom/femsub frolics are doing much to advance the frontiers of feminism, either.

Of course, the world of pleasure spanking is a lot bigger than Spanking Blog’s editorial niche. It always has been. Gay M/m spanking porn has always been out there, but its representation here on Spanking Blog is tokenistic at best. A few stellar examples, I would claim — but no steady pattern of inclusion.

The same is true of female-dominant males-submissive spanking porn. It’s everywhere! But not, usually, here. Again, you’ll find plenty of tokenistic exceptions if you dive into the archives.

What’s remarkable about what I’ve just written is how gender-essentialist it is. If you feel you know what makes a man and what makes a woman, and if you think — as I certainly did when this blog was a baby — that you can pick them out of a naked lineup by looking at genitalia, then what I just wrote makes sense. But we live in a world where none of that is actually true or possible.

Trans people exist. Their gender identities are not defined by the shapes of their bodies. Their sexualities are their own. And that throws our fun spanking game of manly men whupping pretty female bottoms totally up in the air, to come raining down as a chaotic game of 52-Pickup. I mean, we can still play it — and we do! — but it’s a lot more meta once we internalize that our notions of male and female are as arbitrary as the roles of dominance and submissive that we’ve assigned for play purposes.

Fortunately, we live in a world of gender-inclusivity, tolerance, and love. (All of these things need work, but we have them.) Trans people can find places where they are welcome, or they can make their own places. They can be celebrated in porn, or they can make their own porn. The miracle of the internet is that there’s just as much room for, say, a camsite like TSYUM.com as there is for one of the big ones whose popups chase you around the internet.

Fortunately for Spanking Blog, that also means there’s no real need for this blog to abandon the narrow subset of spanking fun that we started colonizing way back in 2003. Manly men whacking curvy lady-butt. Mmm, yumm, it never gets old. Good to stay aware, though, that every role we assign in that fantasy is arbitrary. And if a post now and then explores the hitherto ignored world of TS spanking porn, well, that’s only polite and inclusive, right?