Why Do Many Women Enjoy Being Spanked?

This was a chat conversation and I was encouraged to start a thread about it, so here ya go. It seems that a lot of women enjoy being spanked during sexual encounters. Some women even ask to be spanked. What is the reasoning behind this?

Is it a Freudian thing? Reminsicent of being spanked as a child by their father?

Has nothing to do with the father IMHO. It is more of just a *dirty thing* and handing over control for a brief moment. Personally I'd do it only with people I respect and trust though. I don't like to hand over control about me to anybody. Very close persons only, and even then, not without feeling awkward and a bit skeptic about it.
I guess when you are somebody who always is in control of everything on your life, you enjoy such playful things where somebody else *leads* you.
My 2 cents.

Originally Posted by Shadow

Is it a Freudian thing? Reminsicent of being spanked as a child by their father?

"Spank me, daddy! I've been a naughty girl."

I pose this question because I've never particularly enjoyed spanking women, even when they ask me to. I'm trying to understand why it appeals to some of them.

Originally Posted by Shadow

I pose this question because I've never particularly enjoyed spanking women, even when they ask me to. I'm trying to understand why it appeals to some of them.

This might sound nasty but I think they want to divert the pain away from their butt hole and into their butt cheeks? Oh God, why did I have to say that.

Originally Posted by Lance

This might sound nasty but I think they want to divert the pain away from their butt hole and into their butt cheeks? Oh God, why did I have to say that.

That's quite an interesting theory.

I bet that cafe waitress has a wild side behind that innocent smile of hers.

Personally I don't enjoy being spanked. I also don't connect pain with sexual pleasure. For me spanking is not cute, but demeaning, and I place too high a worth on myself to happily agree to it. If a guy would insist on doing that to me, I would devalue the guy. I'm sure this has ties to my somewhat problematic childhood. I would find it interesting to know what kind of a relationship the women who do like to be spanked have had with their parents.

However, I have personally spanked a lot of my friends and e.g. their snugglebear toys, while roleplaying that those toys have been bad. I did enjoy it, but it wasn't serious.