Spankophile

Spankophile is a sub-division, or an informal term of description, for a person with either a sadistic or masochistic paraphilia. Plainly, a person who likes to get spanked, to spank, to watch while someone gets spanked, to fantasize about spanking, to read spanking stories, to view spanking art, and/or to watch spanking videos, etc.

Spankophiles are commonly fetishists, i.e. they find these spanking-related activities erotic or stimulating. Spanking fetishism is also known generically as spankophilia.

Spankophiles can be of both genders and realization can come at any age, often after puberty.

There are many kinks and sub-divisions within Sadism and Masochism. Being a masochist does not imply that getting spanked will always be pleasurable or erotic, a spanking has to be given in the right way (and often, by the right person) in order to be enjoyable.

Whether someone prefers Erotic spanking or Discipline or any other combination is considered to be the kink particular to the person and no study or psychology has ever proven the origins of a spankophiles preferred kink.

List of Spanking Implements
Flat spanking implements bath brush (wooden or plastic) belt bimmy cooking spatula (wooden or plastic) dough scraper (rubber or silicone) flyswatter hairbrush (wooden or plastic) leather paddle Newspaper paddle (wooden paddle) ping-pong paddle ruler (wooden or plastic) slapper/flapper slipper / Plimsoll strap / Strop tawse wooden spoon Stick-like spanking implements blackboard pointer cane (rattan, bamboo etc.) crop ferula stick switch yardstick Other spanking implements baccalà (clipfish) birch carpet beater Quirt rope's end scourge stinging nettles Whipping implements include bullwhip cat o' nine tails chicotte (an African whip) flail flogger horsehair whip human hair whip klopfpeitsche loopy johnny martinet quirt rebenque (South American gaucho whip) rubber hose single-tail whip sjambok (South African whip)
Some spanking implements produce more "sting" while others produce more "thud". See "sting and thud" for more on this distinction.