Why is spanking painful?

Answer 1

To properly answer this question, I would need to know the terms of a spanking. A correctly administered spanking is supposed to be painful, yes, because the whole point of a "spanking" is to correct your child's misbehaviour by smacking their bottom which gives them pain and therefore makes them regret their misbehaviour and not want to repeat it so that they do not have to experience the painful bottom again. So the answer to your question would be : a properly administered spanking is painful. But there are many factors that must be considered here: how hard the parent is smacking their child's bottom, which tools they are using (for example, their hand, a wooden paddle, a wooden spoon, a strap, etc.) to spank with, which position the child is in (standing up, bending over, flipped over the parent's knee, etc.) and what the child is wearing (if fully clothed, are they weraing jeans or sweat pants? Jeans block an estimated 50% of the pain of a spanking, whereas sweat pants would block much less. If wearing underwear, are they wearing just plain underwear, or boxers/boy shorts? Or are they wearing no pants (tops are not counted for obvious reasons), and you are spanking their bare bottom, which is the most painful and embarrasing form of spanking?). For our first question, the least painful way of smacking your child would be just tapping the bottom, which some parent's who do not want to hurt their child use to show them their behaviour was wrong and to shock them more than anything, whereas some parents smack very hard to provide the biggest possible lesson, which would be much more painful than a tapping. For our second question, the least painful tool is always your hand (and the most recommended as it is the safest), but there are many, many tools to use to spank your child with, and some of the most painful are considered to be the belt, strap, flyswatter and switch, which would be much more painful than a parent's hand. For the third question, the position of the child is not as important, but most believe that a spanking is more memorable and painful when a child is in a bent-over position (for example, bent over a bed or over a parent's lap), but this is a more psychological factor, because being bent-over your parent's lap would make you feel like the spanking was more prepared and therefore the misbehavior must have been much bigger, whereas a spanking where the child is simply standing up has a more casual-feel to it and is usually a position used on-the-go, where sdome believe this makes the child feel like the behaviour was a smaller misbehavior and the punishment needed to be quick and effective so that the parent could get it out of the way. In this way, it is recommended that a child be spanked over the parent's lap, as it makes the spanking psychologically feel more painful than being spanked while standing. For the final question, what the child is wearing would effect the pain level of a spanking, as if the child is wearing jeans, they would obviously block a good amount of the pain from a spanking, which is why most parents either make the child change into something lighter which will not block as much of the pain and not hurt the parent's hand as much, or just take the pants off all together, whereas a spanking on a bare bottom would have no clothing blocking the pain (and therefore make the spanking more painful for the child but still safe as the parent now has a view of the child's bottom and what visual effects they are performing on the bottom so that they can ajust how hard they are smacking so as to assure that they are not spanking too hard or too soft, it also amplifies the noise more than a spanking over pants, which is another psychological factor as it makes the spanking sound worse than it is, and it is more humiliating (it is suggested that if you are spanking a child on their bare bottom, you do it in private as it is rude to both others in the room/ in public to have to witness that and rude to force the child to show their privates in public/to multiple people, and can scar them emotionally) as the child knows that their bad behaviour caused them to have to visually show their bottom which is considered a more private area of the bottom, so the child will not want to repeat the behaviour and experience the embarrassment again. So to answer your question, a proper spanking is painful because there is force being applied to an unprotected surface which is absorbing the force and changing it to pain when it hits the nerves, so the child feels pain.