Yeesh - I was so tired I got the classic quote wrong! Also, I forgot to address Phil S's question about the girls being 18, although it wasn't addressed to me and Phil O.'s answer pretty much covered it. Apart from helping to give Linda a bad attitude that requires adjusting by Dr. Swatson

, being 18 is a general requirement for spankees at CSR with the exception of all those terrible Super-Tot "spankings" where the spanker inevitably says, "Oww - my hand!" (at least two of which I'm responsible for discovering - yechh!

). It's o.k. to stretch a point if the matter is ambiguous, that is, to assume Betty, Veronica, Suzie, Susie Q. are 18 even if there's a slight doubt in some cases, but I don't want to present obvious child-spankings such as the many that were given to the "little girls" Li'l Audrey, Li'l Dot, Li'l Jinx, Nancy, Katy Keene's little sister, Wendy the Good Little Witch, etc.
Why not? After all, many of these were perfectly good scenes in the sense of being well drawn enough, not gratuitous, and generally of humorous intention with no suggestion of child abuse. The answer is that many of both the M/F and F/F spankings found on
CSR include erotic elements - not always, of course, as some are merely disciplinary - and we don't want to imply a broader context in which children are spanked in an erotic manner. Yes, it should be possible to distinguish between an innocent spanking of
Li'l Jinx by her father and the erotically-charged spanking of
Queen Pera by Jorge in
The Phantom, and that's one reason I
do list child-spankings in the Data Base, but this way we retain a very comfortable distance between CSR and any grown men spanking underage girls in an erotic context.
O.K., all this yakking and I still haven't answered two obvious questions:
1. What about a scene with a teen-age boy spanking his girl friend of about the same age? Would that be o.k. on CSR?
Yes - even assuming an erotic component, which obviously was the case for many of us when we spanked our girl friends as teen-agers many moons ago (in a double sense

), this is still all right as we're not suggesting an older man taking advantage of a child, and we simply assume for convenience that these teen-agers who are driving cars and dating are 18 years old.
2. Why did I post all that Super-Tot stuff? Well, there's obviously no child abuse where the spanker comes close to breaking his or her hand, the scenes are utterly devoid of any conceivable erotic content, and I really, really, like making
DC look ridiculous

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