Spanking = Sexual Coercion (What?!)
March 2, 2008 by Sasha Manuel
Filed under Relationships
On this NSFW article, parents who are tough on their children end up making them more likely to be as tough on their future partner:
Professor Murray Straus, of the University of New Hampshire, found that children who are spanked or experience other corporal punishment have a raised risk as teenagers and adults to verbally or physically coerce a partner into having sex. ‘It’s more evidence that parents should not spank if the wellbeing of their children is at stake,’ he said in an interview. Straus analyzed the results of the International Dating Violence Study, a survey of more than 14,000 university students at 68 universities in 32 countries.
I’m not sure how the two could be linked (after all, I’ve been spanked as a child and you don’t see me “coercing” people into bed), but maybe if some of us are on a first date, maybe it would do well to ask our partner “have you been spanked as a child?”, and run away if they answer “yes”?
