Whenever I hear the Word "Spanking" my Gorge rises, and I begin to feel the Need to Slap somebody (to get his Attention), and then to give him a good stiff Horsewhipping, or a swift exemplary Flogging...

"Spanking," called "paddling" in Red States, is, after all, curiously, at the same time, a vile, poisonously mild euphemism both for physically brutalizing children, and for sexual sadism among adults.  People who use the word do so to make light of the pain they mean to inflict, and to deflect attention from the pleasure that hurting children, or their sexual partners, gives them.  On reflection, slapping, whipping and flogging are inadequate punishments for "spankers" and "paddlers."  I propose that the  next school principal in a Southern State who whacks a child with a stick to instill "discipline," and the next sadistic "fetishist" who canes the object of his affection's posterior, have their hands amputated.  At the wrist.