'Should Babes Be Spanked?'

I think that I should probably 'plead the fifth' on this one, or risk being accused of being a horrible dirty old man.  But the actual article 'Should Babes be Spanked?' in this October 1949 issue of Wink doesn't concern spanking as a sexual fetish.  Rather, it is about the use of corporal punishment on ladies behinds as a form of chastisement.  According to the article, there is small (probably non-existent) town in Holland where spankings are handed out as legal punishment for marital transgressions.  Basically, disputes are taken to the local Burgomeister, (who, if horror movies haven't lied to me, would be a ruddy faced, overweight old pervert with a huge moustache and wearing Lederhosen), who then decides who is in the wrong, the husband or the wife, with the guilty party being given a bloody good spanking by their spouse.  Using a hairbrush, if necessary.  Apparently the system was effective as there hadn't been a divorce in the town in twenty years.  Presumably because asking for one would result in getting thrashed with a belt.

So, Wink asks of its red-blooded American male readers, do you agree with handing out spankings to your women?  A significant proportion wold probably say 'No', on the grounds that spankings were too mild - they regularly gave their other halves a bloody good lamping with their fists after staggering home roaring drunk on pay day.  Personally, I'd have to say that I'd be against handing out spankings as punishment.  As a sexual fetish, well, I can't deny that the thought of slapping some quivering buttocks with a bare hand, (never a hair brush), has a certain erotic allure.  After all, spanking is, according to the French, at least, the 'English Perversion', the favoured sexual fantasy of all true British males.  But as I indicated earlier, I'm 'pleading the fifth' on the grounds that I have no wish to incriminate myself as a dirty old man.  Still, if spanking women (either for chastisement or pleasure) isn't you thing, rest assured as the cover of this edition of Wink also promises the prospect of 'Love Below the Knees', a reference, I imagine, to foot fetishism.