hi web-ed,
as usual Doc Cylon did a great job of coloring and animating the drawing by Tooner. the woman seems oddly proportioned to be but she does have a nicely rounded bottom. interesting looking toy she's holding. nice find in the French spanking toon. i like the pic of the bare bottomed young lady getting what appears to be a good blistering by the highly irritated sailor and also her expression of pain:D . i also like her final reaction to the spanking..................just as it should be if you ask me

. DeCarlo's idea that her hat is attracting too much attention seems like a made up reason for him to spank her to me. of course, i can't really fault him for that having made up a few reasons to administer a spanking myself along the way

. since the spanker has her otk with her dress pulled up on a park bench, it seems unlikely that he is "very" worried about attracting attention. i have to agree with you that men routinely spanking their women is indeed a fashion i would like to see return. i like the startled look of disbelief on the spankee's face.................just as you'd think. looking at the different versions and different scans, some with the artist's signature and some without i can appreciate all the detective work it takes from you to get to the origin of these things. i agree that Todd did a first rate job of coloring the "spanking breeze"pic and of course having the panties down is nice too

interesting point about the attention to the female anatomy but little on the male. you gotta give the spanker credit though..........he's giving a really good spanking for a man with his arm broken that badly

. i have to agree with you that Stiles shows an understanding of the "psychology" behind the need to spank your woman..............or perhaps i should have said the psychology of spanking a woman's behind

. thanks for giving us a look at the way a lady's underwear should look

as you said, highly educational photos...........and no i didn't see any jewelry

. i thought part 2 of your article on the comics code was "really" informative. i certainly think you're on to something when you say that Wertham might well be reversing cause and effect . from my own experiences and some things that i have been told by others as i have traveled around the spanking community on the internet, it seems reasonable to me that most true spankos were probably hard wired that way from the get go and that spankings in comics or any other media would have had little effect on anyone who wasn't already thinking along those lines.
you also said,"My personal theory is that while spankos are made and not born, the transformative event, as I call it, takes place very early in life and has nothing to do with comic books." i guess i don't have a real feel for which is correct between "made or born". what i can tell you is this, when i hit puberty i was already a spanker at heart. it seemed perfectly natural to me that a man would spank his woman when she needed it and i was highly aroused by spanking right from the second puberty kicked in. while i think it's pretty obvious that environmental factors as you are growing up have a large influence...........just look at the difference in the "preferred" female body shapes between the 1960s and today. on the other hand, i think there are some genetic factors which have evolved to ensure genetic diversity in the gene pool which affect the process of mate selection. whether spanking per se falls into this category is less clear. lots of men are attracted way more to the bottom cheeks of girls than they are the breasts...............the reverse is equally true of course.
after reading your articles through and portions of them more than once, one thing is clear. you are a very nice man...............MUCH nicer than i would have been. You mention "WERTHAM'S BELIEF THAT COMICS COULD ADVERSELY AFFECT THE SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN". i guess i don't agree that this is necessarily a true statement. my analysis of the situation, which is more from a lifetime of experience in general and less about spanking is this; this seems to me to be a clear case of one person trying to force his views on the masses. it seems likely to me that he never really thought comics had this adverse effect. i find it much more likely that he just didn't like spanking or sexually suggestive comics for his own personal reasons and set out to "create" a connection where none existed in an attempt to get people to back his own viewpoint. now this is just my viewpoint based on observation and analysis of information as i have gone through life but.........IF TRUE...........i would classify it as lies at the very least or as a type of verbal terrorism. great article and great update. thanks, phil