My Cariad and I were sat drinking coffee (him) and hot chocolate (me) and watching the daffodils discussing spanking - as you (we!) do...
He is convinced it is always sexual. While I agree it is for us, I believe some of those who claim otherwise, while seeing (as previously stated) that it suits some to see it otherwise.

Today we had a lovely, if sleepy time together, due to shift patterns, and I was once again reminded of how utterly central spanking is to our sexuality. I had thought that if I ever had a partner who was into spanking it would be something we'd do occasionally, and he had thought the same. We didn't realise how beautifully enmeshed it would be throughout our erotic life together. On the few times we are more conventional sexually, it is somehow in the background and because we both know that, it becomes part of the eroticism, even when not happening - a touch, look or joke and we both know what the other is thinking...