Editing Spanking (section)

==Adult spanking==
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Most spanking performed between adults in the 21st century within the Western world is [[erotic spanking]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}

Within the early 20th century, American men spanking their wives and girlfriends was often seen as an acceptable form of discipline. It was a common [[Trope (cinema)|trope]] in American films, from the earliest days up through the 1960s, and was often used to allude to romance between the man and woman.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Heisel|first1=Andrew|title='I Don't Know Whether to Kiss You or Spank You': A Half Century of Fear of an Unspanked Woman|url=https://pictorial.jezebel.com/i-dont-know-whether-to-kiss-you-or-spank-you-a-half-ce-1769140132|website=Pictorial|date=12 April 2016 |access-date=1 September 2016}}</ref>

In the early 21st century, adherents of a subculture known as ''[[Christian domestic discipline]]'' have on a [[Biblical literalism|literalist interpretation]] of the Bible justified spanking as a form of acceptable punishment of women by their husbands.<ref name="Snyder-Hall2">{{cite journal|last=Snyder-Hall|first=R. Claire|year=2008|title=The Ideology of Wifely Submission: A Challenge for Feminism?|journal=Politics & Gender|volume=4|issue=04|pages=563–586|doi=10.1017/S1743923X08000482|s2cid=145173940}}</ref> Critics describe such practices as a form of [[domestic abuse]].<ref name="Zadrozny2">{{cite news|last=Zadrozny|first=Brandy|author-link=Brandy Zadrozny|date=19 June 2013|title=Spanking For Jesus: Inside The Unholy World Of 'Christian Domestic Discipline'|website=The Daily Beast|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/19/spanking-for-jesus-inside-the-unholy-world-of-christian-domestic-discipline.html}}</ref>

A few countries have a [[Judicial corporal punishment#Full list of countries|judicial corporal punishment]] for adults.