Until the s no western was complete without a spanking. In truth spanking in the old west was probably as much of a myth as a six-gun on every hip and shoot-out on every street corner.
Although, given that the murder rate in any given western state in an average year during the 19th century was between zero and one, spanking was probably far more commonplace. So the reality is, when talking westerns and cowboy spanking we mean movie and pulp fiction spankings. And so legends are born.
In the s, 40s, 50s and even 60s, McKlintock! Where upon the breeches, which were always tighter than any such attire would be for at least 80 years, very handily displayed her comely bottom ripe for a spanking. The spanking would often be a token affair, but sufficient to extract respect and on-going defiance or long and hard to facilitate a surrender.
If the audience was lucky, then there would be two spankings. Early in the film the girl would be spanked by way of a marker and then later on well and truly tamed. By which time she would have donned feminine clothes that actually disguised the padding that was required. There were many exceptions of course, give that some of the spankings in these films was there, not as a conspiracy against women, but as codified sex. There are actually books and academic papers written about women who must be treated as children at all times as an instrument of male suppression etc, and that the spanking is symbolic of a whole range of etcβ¦.
Who really thinks men sit down to plot this stuff? Beauty and the Bandit , was an excellent and rarely seen example of this. Another way to sneak sex, sorry we mean spanking, past the censor was to dress it up as comedy. The Spank Statement carried a feature and clip of the Singing Hill , where a sound spanking is depicted as routine and above all fun.
