Many spankings are carried out with the use of bare hands, or with spanking implements such as paddles, straps, hairbrushes, and belts. Sometimes other implements are used for the activity: such as a cane, riding crop, whip, switch (rod), birch, gloves, a ruler or martinet. However, these would not accurately be called spanking.. Those interested in giving or receiving erotic spankings are sometimes known as spankophiles.

Common Spanking Positions

Over The Knee (OTK) or Across The Lap
Stooped Over A Chair or Couch, or Bench
On Hands and Knees (bed or floor)
On Shoulder of Spanker
Kneeling on a Bed or Ottoman
Stooped Over with Hands on the Floor
Bent Under the Arm of the Spanker
Lying Face Down on a Bed
Bent Over, Touching Toes or Over a Desk
"Diaper Position" (lying on back with legs raised upward and toward chest)

BDSM is the collective term for a group of related sexual preferences common in issue-related literature, which are sometimes inaccurately referred to as D/s, sadomasochism, or S&M (also written S-and-M). The term "BDSM" is an abbreviation derived from the terms bondage and discipline, domination and submission and sadism and masochism. It defines a spectrum of usually sexual behavior, that can include dominance, submission, punishment, masochism, bondage, role play and a large variety of other activities.

Most variations of BDSM involve one partner voluntarily giving up control. The submissive partner gives control to the dominant partner in a ritualized interaction known as power exchange. The dominant partner is referred to as the "Dom", "Dominant", or "top" and the submissive partner is called "sub", "submissive", or "bottom". In accordance with the commonly-used nomenclature in issue-related discussions among the practitioners, this article will use the terms Top and Bottom to describe the particular role-playing partner.

BDSM actions often take place during a specific period of time agreed to by both parties, referred to as "play", "a scene" or "a session". All parties involved usually derive pleasure from this, even though many of the practices that are performed, such as inflicting pain, humiliation or being restrained would be considered unpleasant under normal circumstances. Sexual intercourse, oral, anal or vaginal may occur within a session, but is not essential

Bondage involves people being tied up or otherwise restrained for pleasure. Bondage is usually, but not always, a sexual practice. The most frequently cited reason for bondage for subnmissives is mental freedom from inhibitions and responsibility since they have, in a way, given up control of the sexual situation to follow. This is sometimes referred to as a "power exchange  For the dominants, it's control of their sexual partner. The paraphilia of being sexually aroused by bondage is sometimes known as vincilagnia

Bondage can be divided into six main categories

Bondage that pulls parts of the body together
Bondage that spreads parts of the body apart
Bondage that ties the body down to another object
Bondage that suspends the body from another object
Bondage that restricts normal movement ).
Bondage that wraps the whole body or a part of it in bindings such as cloth or plastic

Discipline: The term discipline describes the use of rules and punishment to control overt behavior in BDSM^.. Punishment can be pain caused physically (such as caning), humiliation caused psychologically (such as a public flagellation) or loss of freedom caused physically (eg. chaining the Bottom to the foot of a bed). Another aspect is the structured training of the Bottom^. Overlap with practices from the field of bondage can occur, but is not necessarily mandatory. A differentiation between bondage and discipline is sometimes difficult.

Ass Worship (or booty worship) generally describes an obsession with the buttocks; or any type of activity in which one person   is motivated by an attraction to their partner's "ass". Spanking, in almost any position, is a natural form of ass worship. A variety of BDSM activities between a dominant and a submissive involve ass worship including rimming and face sitting. Some in the BDSM scene believe ass worship to be a form of humiliation while others consider it to be a sexual high. Many believe the obsession with anal sex today is another form of ass worship.

A dominant is one who enjoys performing any of a variety of BDSM practices upon a submissive; or one who holds a dominant position within a relationship based upon dominance and submission (D/s). This enjoyment can spring from a simple desire for dominance or an enjoyment of the interplay of wills involved in such a scenario. A male dominant is often called a dom; a female, a domme or dominatrix.

Dominance and Submission — control over another, or being controlled by another, respectively — typically describes a relationship power dynamic rather than a set of acts, and may or may not involve sadomasochism. Bondage and discipline describes a set of acts that sometimes involve D/s or S&M; although discipline often implies a level of suffering (real or pretend), participants may stop short of causing actual pain.

Sadists enjoy inflicting pain; which may or may not be sexual in nature. Masochists enjoy receiving pain, which again may or may not be sexual. The simple desire for pain is technically known as algolagnia. Pain, violence, sex and love all are associated with the release of a variety of hormones and chemicals within the human body. Furthermore, humans have been shown to exhibit sympathetic responses in their bodies while watching, hearing, or imagining such experiences.