I had just heard about this yesterday. Even when I was in fundamentalist world, I had never heard of this, but apparently there's some that believe hitting one's wife as a form of discipline is compatible with Christian doctrine. Has anyone heard of this before?
Honestly, when I first started reading this link, I kept waiting for the point when it would be clear that it was satire. This is disturbing. Here's the link to the CDD website.
From the comment section of the first link:
Honestly, when I first started reading this link, I kept waiting for the point when it would be clear that it was satire. This is disturbing. Here's the link to the CDD website.
From the comment section of the first link:
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The concept of Christian Domestic Discipline is relatively new. In fact, Domestic Discipline as applied to spanking didn't enter the English language until the mid-1970s. So far as I can tell, it didn't get tagged with the Christian label until sometime in the mid to late 1990s.
When my wife and I got married, it was just called spanking. The wife of a minister in a church my wife and I attended shortly after we married frankly recommended husbands spanking their wives with a belt. I remember it quite vividly because my wife squeezed my hand and shyly grinned.
A couple of years earlier, with my future wife's permission while we were dating, I had blistered her bottom through the seat of her skirt. There was neither nudity nor sex involved. As she would later admit, she got the licking of her young life for intentionally lying to me!
At the time, my girlfriend admitted she deserved to have her then teenage backside worn out. Consequently, she voluntarily put herself over my lap and took her whipping. Later, she admitted looking at herself in the mirror and finding some well-deserved bruises where she sat down.
Although my wife's parents knew I'd spanked their daughter, they didn't interfere. Back then, spanking wasn't the big deal it would become after passage of equal rights legislation. They also knew couples had to work out their own problems.
Having lived through it, I long ago came to the conclusion that Western society went through a collective panic over spanking that has only recently just begun to subside.
Neither do I believe the label Christian Domestic Discipline to be particularity helpful. For one thing, it's not necessarily Christian. Couple of all philosophical persuasion have done it at one time or the other.
Even worse, as some have alleged, is it a lifestyle. Instead it is a traditional means of resolving marital difficulties that are not easily amenable to resolution by any other means.
Unlike today's couples, my wife and I had to learn how to spank from our parents and other adults.
In my case, I was fortunate enough in my early teens to witness my brother-in-law spank my older sister in our living room after she talked back to our mother. He didn't make a big deal out of it. He just bent her over, exposed the necessary area as you described, and did what needed to be done.
Although it obviously hurt, she didn't protest. She just grimaced and too it. Then, despite her embarrassment, there was an immediate improvement it made it her attitude afterwards. Therein was a lesson for future generations.
