First, let me say thanks to Dan for contributing this most unusual Father's Day spanking cartoon. We all enjoy holiday-themed cartoons, but as we've observed before, some holidays don't seem to lend themselves as well to spanking cartoons as others. This was a nice cartoon in which Spanky Sal admits her father still spanks her even as she joyfully submits to a spanking from Tommy. I think Sal is so popular with us because she likes the OTK position as much as we do.
Now about father/daughter spankings: they are of obvious importance in the comics world because there are so many of them (indeed, we're going to see a bunch more that Phil S. discovered plus at least one that I did). While they may not be our absolute favorite type because the erotic component is lacking, they can be a lot of fun (as we recently saw with the
Diana Dane spankings) and a father is a definite authority figure making the spanking believable.
Of course, real-life spankings are a little different.
Willjohn points out the obvious potential problem for us spanko men: we wouldn't want a true disciplinary spanking, given to a daughter (or other deserving girl) to be mistaken for the not-so-pure-discipline spanking we might give another woman. Because I don't have any children, I was never put in a position where spanking a teen-age girl was necessary, but I knew that I could separate such a spanking from the "other kind" if I had to. I will suggest the reason we can do this, and administer a plain disciplinary spanking with no overtones, has to do with the ambiguous nature of spanking that itself allows for spankos to be created: sometimes a spanking is just a spanking, to paraphrase a remark attributed to Sigmund Freud.
So it was interesting to have my theory confirmed here by both
Dan and
Phil S. I also note that the spankings they mentioned were given to teen-age girls, and I think this is wise, for by my own theories, the
Transformative Event (TE) that turns people into "Natural Spankos" occurs at a much earlier age. Therefore, I feel there is little danger of any psychological damage occurring during the teen years due to spanking. And in some cases, as we know, this form of discipline can do some real good. Of course, most of us spankos remain resolutely against spanking small children.
I think a playful father/daughter spanking after the daughter has grown up is certainly legitimate also.
I do have one real-life story to add, but it's at second hand. Years ago, before the internet, many of us would try to find spanking partners through ads with
Shadow Lane's publication
Stand Corrected. I remember one ad, which I didn't answer since it was out of range, from a woman who said she had been spanked by her father until she was 30(!) and wanted to experience it again. 20 years had passed and I gathered her father was no longer with us. Interesting, wouldn't you say