Simon - BDSM - Fetish?

[Simon]

Spanking is where you can get into a lot of big arguments. Some spanking purists will tell you that the only real spankings are administered with a bare, open hand to a bare bottom bent over your knees. Others will say the bottom should not be bared. Some will say a paddle is acceptable. Some say a cane is fine too. Others include the hairbrush, strap (or strop), ruler and belt. There are other implements that can be used to 'administer a spanking' but once you start crossing over to riding crops, whips, floggers, tawse, switches and birching, you're a long way from the original bare hand OTK.

Here's my take on doing the Spanking category: I put it under BDSM since without any bondage there's probably a better fit there under the Discipline, Domination and Submission, and even S&M parts of the BDSM umbrella. Also, unless the Spanker and Spankee are completely focused on the implements used (including insisting it must be a bare hand) and the action itself in a very fetishistic way, the spanking is always being done by a person to a person so it's just another BDSM activity in my view.

Yes, I can see 'also' doing a Spanking fetish category for the purists out there, and monetizing it only with pure spanking promotions. But all the other kinds of spankings I'd filter to the BDSM surfers.

IMNSHO/YMMV