Oh, Daphne...
My favorite spanking devotee is a respectable New York Times and "New Yorker" writer named Daphne Merkin. She wrote a personal confession in the latter in the mid-1990s, admitting she loved the idea of being punished by a lover. She is also extremely deep into psychoanalysis, and published a well considered analysis of...well, analysis several weeks ago in the NYTimes magazine --
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/magazine/08Psychoanalysis-t.html
Alas, the only trouble with this article is that masochism, etc., isn't mentioned at all.* Which saddened me, a LOT...
As Merkin is currently quoted on the New Yorker Website: "...I cannot conceive of mentioning the subject without envisioning the therapist in question, male or female, immediately envisioning me in the position under discussion."
And the site goes on, "[w]hen she eventually did confess her fantasy to her therapist, he conceded that the number of women patients who over the years have confided their fantasies of being spanked with a paddle or a badminton racquet [hmmmm...] was, in his words 'mind-boggling.'"
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1996/02/26/1996_02_26_098_TNY_CARDS_000373793#ixzz0yKYkz1to
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* She does write -- "There was the day she used the word 'cute' to describe a complicated, even twisted man I was telling her about, and I found myself wondering about her own personal evolution..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/magazine/08Psychoanalysis-t.html
Alas, the only trouble with this article is that masochism, etc., isn't mentioned at all.* Which saddened me, a LOT...
As Merkin is currently quoted on the New Yorker Website: "...I cannot conceive of mentioning the subject without envisioning the therapist in question, male or female, immediately envisioning me in the position under discussion."
And the site goes on, "[w]hen she eventually did confess her fantasy to her therapist, he conceded that the number of women patients who over the years have confided their fantasies of being spanked with a paddle or a badminton racquet [hmmmm...] was, in his words 'mind-boggling.'"
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1996/02/26/1996_02_26_098_TNY_CARDS_000373793#ixzz0yKYkz1to
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* She does write -- "There was the day she used the word 'cute' to describe a complicated, even twisted man I was telling her about, and I found myself wondering about her own personal evolution..."