Spanking Blog has a reproduction of an Art Buchwald column from 1968 in which Buchwald supposedly consults his lawyer about the legalities of wife spanking. The column was stimulated (ha) by then-current scandalous news from the divorce proceedings of legendary actor Cary Grant. Supposedly the actor responded to an allegation that he’d spanked his soon-to-be-ex-wife by admitting it. His defense? He had, he claimed, “reasonable and adequate cause” to spank her. A small detail from the trial testimony: he was grinning when he did it.

The past? It is indeed another country. Forget the wife spankings of the rich and famous; it’s bizarre enough that people used to actually litigate the question of whether sufficient grounds for a divorce existed!

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In case you were wondering, here is an informative list of things spanking is about.

It is attributed to “Ashleyzworld” on FetLife, but it spread to Spanking Blog via Tumblr.

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He bent a “do not bend” postal item, now he’s paying the price at the rough hands of an outraged postal patron:

Artist is the inimitable Tom of Finland.

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Did you ever see a woman look so happy at being spanked with the flat of a sabre?

This scene never actually was “on” television; like so many provocative promotional stills, it’s not a scene from the actual show. This photo shows two characters (Captain Parmenter and Betty Lou MacDonald) from the 1966 TV show “F Troop”. The actors (Ken Berry and Jackie Joseph) were married in real life. Readers are therefore free to speculate as to how far to extrapolate from happy facial expressions the actors’ opinions on that ancient pulp/tabloid wife-spanking question: should wives be spanked?

It strikes me as bitterly ironic that a scene like this couldn’t even be shown in avowed pornography these days, due to billing policies.

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With the recent spate of ultraviolent Turkish riot police imagery all over social networking and the media, it seems a good time to mention the political street art Spanking Blog found last week, starring the iconic figure Lady Justice (complete with blindfold, scales, and a broken sword) getting a baton ass-beating from a riot cop:

It’s by an Irish artist known by his “ADW” tag.

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From Spanking Blog:

I had a tough day yesterday, and my husband spanked me into a better mood. Later he said, “I hit your bottom and the bad thoughts go flying out of your head.”

I suppose it’s cheaper than therapy…

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A real vintage gem of a spanking photo from Spanking Blog:

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