Comments on: Spare the Rod, Spoil the Sexual Deviant?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:29:00 +0000

I could see this happening, especially if the punishment had sexual overtones, as they often do. If the child was forced to strip naked for the spanking, or was spanked on the genitals, it could definitely cause some sexual problems.

Susan

By: David

David — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:03:00 +0000

Sample size 207. College students. This makes econometric research look good. The only reason trash like this gets publicity is that it is salacious.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:37:00 +0000

Moma destroyed my mojo years ago, I have no choice now except to push this vegetable up my fundament. Pathetic really.

Ivan

By: Yves Smith

Yves Smith — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:17:00 +0000

Russ DoGG,

Unfortunately, she's a pro based in Ohio who goes as Lady Sage and managed to precipitate a bit of a scandal in Australia.

By: Russ DoGG

Russ DoGG — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:42:00 +0000

Of course this is biased.

Good parenting produces well behaved kids, who don't get spanked. The paddle becomes the resort of those with poor parenting skills.

Anyone know how to get in touch with the woman in the picture? She's hot.

By: andrew Boucher

andrew Boucher — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:04:00 +0000

“The best-kept secret in child psychology is that children who were never spanked are among the best behaved.” Um, maybe it’s because they are among the best behaved that they are never spanked?

By: Yves Smith

Yves Smith — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:05:00 +0000

Anon of 10:17 AM,

True enough. I also had the thought that correlation is not causation. People who were spanked as children may simply be more willing to ‘fess up to sexual practices frowned upon by society. Sex is one of the topics people are most inclined about which to dishonest.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:18:00 +0000

If 90% of the parents do something doen’t it become white noise? How does this statistic jive with the first question asked by Straus “I was spanked a lot before age 12″. Should’nt the truthful answer to that question be yes 90% of the time?
Given this 90% statistic, isn’t it likely that people who prefer masochistic sex today are more likely to have fantasies/memories of being beaten as a child?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:17:00 +0000

"My underlying motive was to bring this to the attention of parents and of more people," Straus said, "in the hope it will help continue the decrease in the use of corporal punishment."

This is a massive red flag. I cannot believe he said this. He is admitting he had a desired outcome in mind (in order to influence parenting) and that this desired outcome was formed before he did the study.

This does not automatically invalidate his findings; perhaps his research his still good. But with a statement like this, someone needs to take his experimental design apart. Without scrutiny we cannot be sure that his biases towards a certain outcome did not influence his findings.