From Written In The Flesh: A History Of Desire, we learn:
Elector Albrecht of Brandenburg was said to have “a tolerant wife, who not only accepted his orgies but enthusiastically participated.” She also participated in his efforts to “pepper” the participants, his code word for whipping. The day after Christmas 1474, he wrote to her, “We’ll save up the pepper until I get home. If your butt’s got big, you’re really going to get it … You whip the virgins good for me, and strike them firmly so that they think of me. If God vouchsafes me a safe return, I’m going to whip you soundly with young Albert [his code word for penis]. Young Albert really wants to get big.”
A good bondage spanking over his knee is not an unexpected fate for a model (in this case, Tracey Sweet) putting in a hard day’s BDSM at Hard Tied:
But what I liked about this spanking scene is that once her bottom is nice and pink, the man’s hand wanders aggressively in a manner that I find to be not at all unfamiliar:
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The caption on this is “Very well, Angeline. We shall see if we cannot improve your manners a little.”

I’d like to be able to parse that signature into a searchable name, but I can’t make out all the letters. Something like “Gibcamells” but that’s not correct, or at least there are zero Google results for it.
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This bit of vintage spanking art is by P. Fusty and appeared in Le Tour d’Europe d’un Flagellant (1909):
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Sometimes we ought to return to the classics, like this vintage red-bottomed OTK spanking scene from California Star:

But sometimes, too, a bare hand is not enough implement, and OTK doesn’t offer enough room to swing. That’s also all right:
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What do you do when her ass is so hot it literally catches fire? Well, you spank out the flames, of course!

These are screengrabs from a movie called Paris is Burning that’s available via Clare Fonda Pass. The cameraman explains the setup on his blog:
This is how I remember that scene coming to pass. We did our first shoot with Paris at Clare’s place (an apartment back then).
And Paris was talking about all of the circus tricks she could do – eat glass, take a bath in broken glass, light parts of her body on fire, put a screw driver in her nose, etc. So me being me, I suggested we incorporate some of those “tricks” into some of our scenes.
So we shot at these 2 goth girls’ super-cool creepy house and we actually lit Paris’s ass on fire (again my suggestion) while one of the Goth girls spanked out the flames. Then of course continued spanking her.
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