Dragging

Buster Brown is dragged away by his Ma for his spanking.

Dragging is perhaps the most common way of forced motion. One person takes tight hold of another person's upper arm, wrist or hand and uses this to pull the person to whichever place, direction or posture desired.

This type of dragging works only well when the person who drags is considerably bigger and stronger than the other person, for example, an adult and a child. A related variant of this is pulling the ear and grasping the nape of the neck. The dragged person is not lifted off the ground as in the over the shoulder or under the arm carry, but can (and must) walk on their own feet.

In comics and cartoons, a dragged character is often drawn off the ground to show the speed of motion. See the Buster Brown panel to the right for a typical example.

Dragging in spanking scenarios

In spanking scenarios, dragging usually occurs whenever the spankee is not cooperating, so it is a typical element of nonconsensual (disciplinary) spanking. The uncooperative spankee has to be dragged to the place where the interrogation, the scolding or the punishment will take place.

Sometimes a spanker will also not give the spankee a chance to cooperate but just drag him/her, which is humiliating in its own way as unnecessary physical force that implies uncooperativeness even when there is no such.

The body part by which the person is dragged has an influence on the connotations:

hand

most friendly and polite way, the person is "led", e.g. when crossing a street

wrist/forearm

suggests uncooperativeness ("come with me!")

upper arm

suggests even bigger uncooperativeness (least chance to wriggle free, best control over the person's torso)

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