My parents spanked on a regular basis when I was a child. They never went beyond three spanks, but it was usually on a bare bottom with a belt. One of my earliest memories is of me crouched behind the playroom door, bawling in terror as my older brother was being spanked in the next room. I discovered a few years ago that he is a full-blown narcissist and have been wracking my brain ever since to figure out how this happened. I suspected the spankings were behind it. Definitely going to be reading both those books!