The Spencer Spanking Plan
Thanks to Gary Switch for sending along a link to The Spencer Spanking Plan, that notorious 1930s progressive document for the scientific adjustment of marital difficulties. Of course I can’t approve of it wholeheartedly, as it lines husbands up for their fair share of domestic discipline. (I’m all about the delicious double standard that spares my pristine buttocks and reddens hers.) Still, for all that The Plan is a kinky blueprint masquerading as scientific sociology, it honestly pegs several of the benefits that one still hears domestic discipline aficionados describing today:
Just what is a modern spanking or whipping?
It is a product of today — an act of discipline given under carefully defined and controlled conditions. Brutality is entirely foreign to the idea. Revenge, oppression, force, and violence are all frowned upon and do not enter into the Plan in any way. The idea of a modern spanking is to administer punishment when it is needed — then make up and forget the whole incident.
In this way, every disagreement is effectively closed before it has time to ferment into serious discord — to grow into hatred or an indifference which even a great crisis may not be able to heal. The couple that has every difference out when it arises is not likely to build up an antagonism that can be settled only in the divorce courts.
Also, should modern spankings and whippings be administered, they tend to improve dispositions, increase domestic happiness, create a much more desirable spirit of unselfishness, and eliminate much other unpleasantness.
See Also:






