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Spanking in
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| This section is mainly about books with spanking scenes in them, rather than books where the main storyline is spanking. Below, we have a link to our mega-list of over 500 books with spanking scenes. Most of these books are from the 20th Century as such scenes have largely disappeared from mainline published books in this century. For instance, Mills & Boon, a major source of literary spanking last century, has now banned them. |
| Even so, we thought that we would have a look at a sample of authors who frequently or periodically included spanking scenes in the their books. |
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Dana Burnet (1888-1962), a writer of short stories, plays and poems, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in July 1888. He was educated at Cornell University, where he earned a law degree in 1911. Instead of practicing law, however, he immediately launched his writing career by serving as a reporter and editor for the New York Sun from 1911 to 1918. It was during this period that Burnet also began writing and publishing his own poems and short stories. A book entitled Poems was published by Harper Brothers in 1915. Burnet was married twice, first to Marguerite Dumary in 1913, and, second, to Eugenia Chapin in 1936. He and his second wife lived in Beverly Hills, California, until around 1948. During this time Burnet was writing screenplays, one of which was released as a film titled The Great Commandment, in 1939. He also was employed for a brief time as a staff writer for Twentieth Century-Fox. Meanwhile, Burnet continued to write and sell numerous short stories and articles which were published in such magazines as Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, and Red Book. In 1948, he and his wife moved to the Narragansett Bay community of Stonington, Connecticut, where he spent the rest of his life. There he designed and built his own house in 1959. Dana Burnet died on October 1962. How respectable can you get? Yet his short story, Fraud in the Laundry Basket, was promoted by the page above. How times have changed! |
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| Jack Vast is a 1960s author, but very little seems to be known about him. He churned out the Dime genre paperbacks, all with sleazy covers. Two examples are below: Sex Marathon in 1963 and Hush, Hush, Sweet Harlot in 1968. |
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| But is was also the era when many men believed that lesbianism could be cured by a macho male, hence the title above, Which Lesbians Prefer Males, which, incidently, is for sale on Abe Books for £120 (Nov 2024) |
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| Carter Brown was the literary pseudonym
of Alan Geoffrey Yates (1 August 1923 – 5 May 1985), an
English-born Australian writer of detective fiction. Between
1954 and 1984 Yates published 215 ‘Carter Brown’ novels and some
75 novella-length stories. He died of a heart attack in 1985
in Sydney. In 1997, he was posthumously awarded a Ned Kelly,
Australia's leading literary award for crime writing, for his
lifelong contribution to the art. This is the only Carter Brown Book (above) that we can find that even has the word, Spanking, on the cover. Neverthelass, spankings proliferate in his books but this one is misleading. The Spanking Girls is about dominant girls, hence the The! More interestingly, the dizzy blonde would-be detective, Mavis Seidlitz, is more often the subject for a good spanking. At least, twelve Carter Brown books are listed in our mega-list as having good quality spankings of nubile young women. |