I was spanked as a kid in the 60s......

[moriah]

96. As I said in another post in a different thread, breaking the skin only happened to me once.

My mother, who had never spanked me before but had been spanked as a child, lost her temper when I refused to go to school, and switched me until i was bleeding.

Now, the fact I am a ginger who can scratch her arm and create a welt in the shape of the scratch -- dermatographia -- meant that the first scratches from the switch created welts. When those welts were switched, that's when the skin broke and blood was drawn. She was so angry she didn't realize the damage she'd done until she looked down, and regretted it immediately.

But in reality, the same switching on a normal kid probably would have not broken the skin, let alone left blood running down my legs. (And since I didn't go to school that day, obviously, the spanking backfired... I got my way.)