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Therapeutic spanking

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Therapeutic spanking, also known as spanking therapy, is a term used to describe spanking which is given neither primarily for punishment nor for an erotic purpose. Instead, spanking is used as a therapeutic measure for its curative effects.

Therapeutic spanking is usually given in a style that employs the phrases and actions of disciplinary spanking, but in a kind of roleplaying. It is fully consensual and implemented on the explicit request of a person who feels they need to be spanked.

1 Individual sessions
2 Long-term spanking agreements
3 The semi-erotic approach
4 Medical spanking and whipping
5 See also
6 Links

[edit] Individual sessions

A person may wish to be spanked to get rid of guilty feelings for some offense they actually committed but were not (or not sufficiently, in their own feeling) punished for. Such a spanking may follow shortly after the offense, but it is also possible to work up guilty feelings that way that go back years, possibly even to childhood.

In the latter case, the therapeutic spanking may involve ageplay - see age regression spanking.

[edit] Long-term spanking agreements

This approach involves spankings on a more or less regular basis. Typically, a punishment agreement is made between the spankee and the spanker to give spankings either for agreed types of misbehavior which are in the focus of the therapy, or in sessions on a regular basis (such as weekly). It is important to note that therapeutic spanking can be given completely outside any punitive context, for example as a device to help release emotional stress and worries.

[edit] The semi-erotic approach

Some adult partners also practice a slightly different sort of therapeutic spanking which is sort of "halfway between disciplinary and erotic spanking". This variant is popular as it comes with a double payoff: besides the beneficial effects on the spankee, it also is a very bonding experience between the partners. In its M/F variant, it is described in more detail on the Fondly and Firmly domestic discipline website (see the link below).

[edit] Medical spanking and whipping

Whipping has long been used as a form of therapy, for example in traditional Buddhist/Tibetian medicine, or Europe from Antiquity up to the 19th century, e.g. for patients who suffered from mental diseases. In 2005, Russian scientists reported that they found "whipping therapy" to be an effective means against alcohol and drug abuse, depression, suicidal thoughts and psychosomatic diseases. The scientists recommend the following course of the whipping therapy: 30 sessions of 60 whip lashes on the buttocks in every session. They explain the results, which they say were "good and excellent", by the body's endorphin mechanism.

In this approach, there is usually no roleplay of any kind involved. The whipping or spanking is ideally given in a non-punitive, service-like, medical manner, like a kind of skin treatment, similar to a rough form of massage. Needless to say, by modern standards such a form of therapy which involves substantial pain must be 100% consensual and never be forced on a patient.