Time for a long discussion post. First one. I've only been posting for seven and a half months... Note: this is only about trends I have noticed in both my and others' art. At no point on this or any other post will I be discussing actual corporal punishment of real children or non-consenting adults. There does seem to be a marked difference along gender lines in which spanking implements are used. Some are evenly distributed, while others are not. There are also a few other things I've noticed. First, the hand. Most commonly used for obvious reasons; I think I have more hand spankings than all implements combined. In my work men are a bit less likely to hand spank girls on the bare bottom (2 out of 14, 29%) than women are to hand spank boys or girls bare (3 out of 6, 50% and 6 out of 17, 35%, respectively). On the other hand (heh), men are more likely to hand spank girls on the underwear (7 of 14, 50%) than women with boys (0) or girls (5 of 17, 29%). Fully clothed it is...