Spanking Kids Increases Risk of Sexual Problems as Adults

It is so amazing that when there is scientific research done on the part of someone who holds the title of doctor, that there is always a negative effect or some sexual disfunctions. I also find it amazing how they are able to just go out and find these subjects many of them adult school college people. Either someone conducting the survey was not asking the right questions, or they were being dupped into believeing what they were being fed with no real proof to show for their research.
As an adult male that grew up at a time when spanking was the normal and any adult can hit a child through spankings from parents, to school teachers, principals, policemen, priest or nuns, none of the people in my generation ended up in prison for it, had sexual dysfunctions, or problems steeming from the spanking. It is another excuse for not dealing with an issue and a solution that works. I raised my son on spankings since I was a single father and he turned out ok with no problems and thanked me for taking the time to do it while he was growing up. No child wants to be spanked, but it seems to be the most effective way of getting across a point and it is not sexual. If spanking someone especially a child is a sexual turn on then there is something wrong with the person doing the spanking or something wrong with the child concerning sex that has nothing to do with spanking. Parents today are so caught up in their own careers that they do not give attention to their children and have strangers raising them and that is the problem with kids getting into trouble or being abusive or whatever because they are retaliating from the fact they had parents who did not care enough about them to show it by taking the time to punish them with a spanking. The butt is padded for a reason and can endure more than you think, and it worked well in the past and just as effective today but parents are always looking for the easy way out and scientist use these parents fears and concerns to get grants to validate them. When this country needs is a good spanking from childhoon into adulthood and beyond in some cases including when adults are incarcerated and maybe the point will get across than all of this pampering and using solutions like grounding or something as stupid for to ground a kid today as punishment is the biggest laugh of all with all the technology to keep them more in touch with their friends. This ignoring true punishment for grounding only leads kids to have time on their hands to search the internet and get themselves into trouble and it is that trouble that leads to some deadly consequences. So think of that the next time you think of grounding your child as to just giving them a good old fashion over the knee spanking with your hand. I am against things like paddles or other impliments but the hand will not do damage and get the point across. Anyone can turn anything into something sexual but spanking is not it. If they are going to be turned on sexually to someone, they will find ways and only using spankings as the culprits. There is no accountability today and that is what has caused the problems that these researches have found and not the spankings themselves. In the old west, fathers would spank their sons well into adult hood by taking them out to the barn and giving them a good whipping and they turned out ok as did anyone who got spanked before the seventies when women decided to get this practice outlawed with laws being made to prevent it and that is where the real problems started, not before. Look at the behaviour of kids prior to the sevenites and the robots we see being raised today with no respect and parents themselves who need to be spanked for the way the raised these children who have no heart or soul and think nothing about suing their own parents and so forth. You tell me if these researches are true or not and are you willing to go by them and pay the consequences later on. It seems to me that things that were effective and worked in the past are pushed aside for things that do the opposit and people wonders whatever happen to the good old days.

Sexual Problems In Women

Sexual problems in women have been buried under the coverlets for a long time. ‘Thirty years of married life, four children and soon to be a grandmother, Petrushka Prutkova did not know about orgasm nor was she expected to when her husband rose off her with a “Za vashe zdorovye,” pouring some himself some kvass , patting her bottom and dressing and going out.

‘She did not look it. Indrani looked to be more in her 40s than her actual age which was 20-plus. I was with Dr. Chantal in a remote Indian village attending on this young old-looking woman who had been married off when she was 15 and now had five children, all girls and a syphilis infection that just refused to be cured. This woman knew nothing about orgasms, menstruation was dirty word and she was isolated like a leper in a colony for those four or five days. She was ‘polluted.’

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Child buttock-battering for the purpose of gaining compliance is nothing more than an inherited bad habit.

Its a good idea for people to take a look at what they are doing and learn how to DISCIPLINE instead of hit.

I think the reason why television shows like "Supernanny" and "Dr. Phil" are so popular is because that is just what many (not all) people are trying to do.

There are several reasons why child buttock-battering isn't a good idea. Here are some good, quick reads recommended by professionals:

Plain Talk About Spanking
by Jordan Riak

The Sexual Dangers of Spanking Children
by Tom Johnson

NO VITAL ORGANS THERE, So They Say
by Lesli Taylor M.D. and Adah Maurer Ph.D.

My n ame is Dr. Rick Frei and I just finished a study at the Community College of Philadelphia where we looked at these issues with over 500 students. We found that students who were the recipients of more severe corporal punishment were more likely to have been in trouble with police, more likely to have done drugs in the last 30 days, more likely to have hit their partner, and more likely to stay in relationships in which they were being abused. They were also more likely to be sexually aroused by spanking, and violence in general. On the flip side, those students who reported that their parents were actively involved in their lives reported being hit less by their parents. They also had less problems with police and drugs later in life.

You may not like the conclusions drawn by the researcher and you can (rightly) argue that survey research does not prove causality (maybe the children's bad behavior caused them to be spanked, not vice versa). But the data speaks for itself.

i agree!

Given this anatomical closeness of amygdala and hypothalamus, with both involved in rage/anger/sexual response isn't it reasonable to think that one feeling could infuse another?
Isn't it reasonable to think a severe spanking could enrage a child, whatever the reason, and that rage carry over into other feelings, especially if he/she is a frequent recipient of such violence?
If the reason is to change behavior, corporal punishment may work in the short term, but what does it actually teach the child? It certainly doesn't teach him/her that thinking is a desirable trait, just physical coerction is. A thinking parent would control their reaction and restrain a small child and deprive an older child,for instance. Both take more effort and discipline on the part of the parent. Not being perfect parents, we may not always achieve this discipline within ourselves, because, indeed, it is not easy! But parenting is not about taking the easy way out and takes an enormous amount of discipline and isn't this the modeling we are suppose to show our child?

On the one hand virtually all sexual behavior should be accepted as normal or at least tolerated, never questioned or criticized. On the other hand these seemingly normal traits, curiously more often then not male traits, result allegedly by spanking, another predominantly male activity. I may be wrong but I think I see Feminism at work again.

A lot of people (women especially) like a little spanking action in the bedroom. Works for them, it works for me.

The article is such worthless drek that it's hardly worth acknowledging. Percentages tell us nothing. What are the means and standard deviation? What are our sample sizes? What are out F ratios? Spouting out a bunch percentages with out references to these are worthless for truly understanding this sort of data.

And the sample data all comes from college students. Sampling only college students is hardly representative.

So he's maybe he's found that certain percentages of college students who were spanked as children have these tendencies? Just because there may be a correlation relationship (which we have no idea of just how strong that correlation it is) does not necessarily imply there is a causal one. There could be any number of other contributing factors, such prevalence of home violence, socioeconomic factors (we already know that these children come from homes with the ability and motivation to send them to college), religious and moral background, etc.

In order to say that corporal punishment leads to significant deviation in sexuality one must design a experiment to test this hypothesis. I very much doubt Straus gathered a random group of subjects as children and randomly assigned them to spanked and not spanked.

It also looks a lot like Straus taking any instance to mean trend:

In the fourth study, Straus asked 207 students at three colleges about whether they had ever been sexually aroused by masochistic sex: imagining that they were being tied up when having sex, engaging in rough sex, or by spanking, and if they had been sexually aroused by actually doing these three things.

Really? Ever? Even one random thought means one is a masochist?

And finally, what was the peer reviewed article Straus published this all in? Oh wait, he didn't. He presented at a conference. One that he's not even listed as a speaker at! A published write and foremost researcher in his field not being listed as a speaker he spoke at? And even if Straus was a last minute addition presenter, how was this information received by the other attendees at the conference? Did they accept it? Did they reject it?

-sable