Spanking Raises Chances of Risky, Deviant Sexual Behavior
Hmmm, I'm still mulling this one over....I was spanked as a child...no desire to have it done to me as an adult for any reason.....
Hmmm, what do you all think?
THURSDAY, Feb. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have uncovered another damaging consequence of spanking: risky sexual behaviors, or even sexual deviancy, when the child grows up.
"This adds one more harmful side effect to spanking," said Murray Straus, a spanking expert who was expected to present the findings of four studies at the American Psychological Association's Summit on Violence and Abuse in Relationships in Bethesda, Md., on Thursday.
"I think that it's pretty powerful," said Elizabeth Gershoff, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan's School of Social Work. "It's across several studies and across different forms of either risky or deviant sexual behavior."
Straus, who was the author of all four studies, hopes the findings will raise awareness among child development experts.
"My hope is to convince my colleagues that they ought to put this in their textbooks," said Straus, co-director of the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham. "It's amazing. Something experienced by all American kids gets an average of half a page in child development textbooks, and not a single one comes to the conclusion that parents should never spank."
Even the revered Dr. Spock, who was anti-spanking, never came right out and advised parents outright not to do it, he added. Instead, Spock advised "avoiding it if you can."
A meta-analysis of spanking studies conducted by Gershoff found 93 percent agreement among studies that spanking can lead to such problems as delinquent and anti-social behavior in childhood along with aggression, criminal and anti-social behavior and spousal or child abuse as an adult.
"There's probably nothing else in child development that has 93 percent agreement in results," Straus said.
Five percent of people who have never been spanked hit their partners, versus 25 percent of those who were spanked frequently.
However, some 90 percent of U.S. parents spank toddlers, according to Straus.
The review being presented at the meeting are the first to look at the relationship of spanking to sexual behavior.
They found that spanking and other corporal punishment is associated with an increased probability of verbally and physically coercing a dating partner to have sex; risky sex such as premarital sex without using a condom; and masochistic sex such as spanking during sex.
There is a "dose response" at work here. "The more parents spank, the higher the probability of harmful side effects," Straus noted.
Of course, there's a similar dose response for smokers. But if someone reaches the age of 65 without developing lung cancer, it doesn't mean that smoking isn't harmful. It means the person was one of the lucky ones.
It's the same with spanking, Straus said. "If a person says, 'I was spanked, and I don't have any interest in bondage and discipline sex, that's correct, but it's not because spanking is OK, it's because they're one of the lucky ones."
And spanking a child once may be like picking up that first cigarette. "The trouble is, if you have a 2-year-old, you pretty soon decide you can't avoid it. The recidivism rate for whatever 'crime' you correct a 2-year-old for is about 50 percent in two hours."
"I've been researching corporal punishment for 30 years and, in the course of that time, the evidence has accumulated that it doesn't work any better than non-corporal punishment but has harmful side effects. I have come to the conclusion that parents should never, ever spank because, although it does work, it's no better than non-hitting methods that don't have harmful side effects. If there was an FDA for spanking, they'd say use an alternative that doesn't have harmful side effects."
Gypsy I agree, different people like different things and anything other than missionary gets a bad press in some places. In some countries that sort of behaviour is punishable by imprisonment, how they find out what goes on in your own home is still a mystery
I really dislike the use of the term sexual deviance, in my experience people who use that term usually view sex and dirty and sinful anyway so therefore what is probably normal sexual desire and play becomes "deviant"
If it ain't missionary it's deviant.
"When they say he could walk on water, I think of it like he could fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Literal people scare me, getting it wrong fundamentally, down at the church of 'Look it says right here see!" Ani Difranco
was spanked as a child and needs an excuse for his/her deviant behavior, thus an author is "born"..I can't believe that all the folks that turned out normal were just "lucky".
I was spanked a LOT as a child (even tho I was perfect..ahem) and none of the results in the article apply to me. I don't hit my spouse, nor he hit me, I have no desire for other of the sexual "results" put in the articles either...I say these folks are full of BS...
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. --Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
not everyone would have something lead them into something else. I guess it has a lot to do with "in what setting" and "how" the spanking took place
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I don't know, I really don't think the link can be that strong. Most people would have been spanked when they were kids, which would mean that the vast majority of people in the world are into S&M, which simply isn't true.
"When they say he could walk on water, I think of it like he could fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Literal people scare me, getting it wrong fundamentally, down at the church of 'Look it says right here see!" Ani Difranco
Guilt is a sign of hope.
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To start the day.......... LOL
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All I have indulged in is deviant sexual behaviour, it makes me feel so baddddd.
I Like it......... :)
Jaguar,
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I was also spanked as a child and I t t t t turned out alright, lol
But thankfully, Fembot's got a sensible mind, although her heart calls for the cosequenses of the wrong choices that people in her life made. I do yield to the excitement more than the reality most of the time though
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I am all dressed for the action on ure call !!!
Don't mind either. Anything that gives me a sense of being kept under control of somebody.
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Damm it shouldnt have thrown out the chains and whipe !!!! Fembot do u mind the flysquatter and cello tape instead
No am not bajesus.
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you're joking right?
Applies to me. I remember having a violent childhood...don't remember details. But I now have the fetishness of wanting to be beaten and have an excitement at the thought of whips and chains being used on me.
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One of the hardest things for us to do in our human nature is to just stop what we are doing to allow God to produce in us what only He can produce.
a wooden spoon I wet myself
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I think the person wrote this article after meeting Mr. Paul.
"When they say he could walk on water, I think of it like he could fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Literal people scare me, getting it wrong fundamentally, down at the church of 'Look it says right here see!" Ani Difranco
hhmmmmmmmmmm...
I was never spanked as a child, but I enjoy a good spanking now and again as an adult! (joke)
Its amazing what the "great minds" of today manage to come up with.
you obviously had a few spankings in your time.
Let me spank ya Gyps, see if its true :)
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surely you jest, I had little leather diapers and loved it.