No date on this newspaper clipping but my guess is, it’s from the mid-20th-century, and Richard Windsor says likewise:

Clipping can be found many places on the web, but let’s go with Richard Windsor in 2006 for today’s link credit.
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Apparently, it’s not a properly formal spanking unless both parties are wearing elbow-length gloves. I never knew this before:
From Silken Nugget Model Agency as seen at Vintage Sleaze.
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I’ve always felt that the popular depictions of Cinderalla’s wicked stepmother and stepsisters sort of downplay their cruelty. How exactly did they make the poor girl scrub the floors on her knees all day?
Finally an artist gets it right:

According to my source, the art is by Francesco Trifogli.
It’s not the sore bottom that’s the true punishment here:

That’s a classic shot from Spanking Teen Brandi.
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Running around, drinking, smoking, dancing … of course she’s going to be in trouble!

Chross found it.
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Self-spanking isn’t much of thing for me, but in this age of cam shows and long-distance internet relationship maintenance via webcam, it’s something many spankos have at least dabbled with. And thus, inevitably, it’s become a feature in some of the fetish toolboxes we carry around.
Here’s Devi Lynn spanking herself with a light plywood paddle for a live cam show put on for Kink.com:
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