The 'Christian' movement that tells husbands to SPANK their wives 'to correct misbehavior'
By Ashley CollmanA growing number of married American couples are agreeing to allow husbands to keep their wives 'in line' by taking to corporal punishment.
The trend is called Christian Domestic Discipline and much of what is known about the practice is published on the website Learning Domestic Discipline, published by husband and wife CDD duo, Clint and Chelsea.
The
website states: 'It is an arrangement between two adults who share the
belief that the husband is the head of the household and with that
position comes the right to enforce his authority.'
Clint and Chelsea have also written a 50-page packet on the practice called Beginning Domestic Discipline.
Manifesto: Learningdd.com is a source of a lot of information on the new painful Christian trend
Discipline: In CDD, husbands spank their submissive wives in order to correct misbehavior
That translates to all methods of punishment, not exclusive to spanking. Clint and Chelsea advocate lecturing, removing privileges, corner and bedroom time – essentially the ways most people discipline their children.
For CDD enthusiasts, this type of punishment isn’t sexual in nature.
Vera (anonymous last name), who is in a CDD relationship with her husband told The Daily Beast that the practice is in no-way sexual.
'The pure CDD people don't go there. A lot of folks think of Fifty Shades of Grey - but this is not that.’
Spanking is clearly the bread and butter of this kind of relationship. Eighteen pages of the CDD manifesto are dedicated to spanking and how to properly go about administering spanks.
Tools: A hairbrush is one of the listed items sanctioned for spanking on in the Beginning Domestic Discipline packet
Paddle: A wooden spoon is another spanking tool.
In the packet, Clint and Chelsea warn that one of the cons with this
tool is that it 'can break easily'
Corporal punishment at home obviously leads to questions about whether or not this is domestic abuse. Clint and Chelsea stress in their packet that CDD should only practiced by consenting adults and that the HoH should never punish while angry.
‘If the HoH becomes angry, they must do whatever it takes to get themselves back to a calm, reasonable, rational, level-headed, and collected state before making any decision or carrying out any punishment.’
But as evidenced on many forums dedicated to CDD, the practice has turned violent in cases.
‘I wanted the spankings to stop and my husband told me it was either DD and marriage or divorce. I chose divorce. I couldn't handle the pain of spankings anymore, emotionally or physically,’ a woman named Michelle wrote on a popular CDD blog found in reporting by The Daily Beast.
What’s scarier is how little fear is expressed in these forums.
XOJane writer Laura Rubino investigated the issue and trolled the internet looking for horror stories but was surprised when she ‘didn’t find as many of those as I was expecting to.’
'Most of the women who write about their CDD experiences online are not complaining. Many of them report feeling extremely calm and relaxed after being disciplined, and believe it is an expression of their husband caring about them and their marriage, enough to help them modify their behavior,’ Rubino said.
The punishment, Rubino said, offers these women a clean slate and they don’t have to worry about passive aggressive tension after a fight.
While many of these women rave about CDD, it’s not something that Rubino would voluntarily sign herself up for.
‘Walking around my own home, conscious of the fact that any perceived transgression could result in physical pain and a surrendering of control of my body? That would stress me the f*** out. I don't find that sexy at all. Scary, yes. Hot? Not so much.'
Jim Alsdurf, a forensic psychologist who has written a book on abuse in Christian homes, agrees.
‘No fool in his right mind would but this as a legitimate way to have a relationship. A relationship that infantilizes a woman is one that clearly draws a more pathological group of people.’
Even conservative Christians aren’t behind this trend. Radio host Bryan Fisher told The Huffington Post that he finds no basis in Christianity for such a relationship. He described the trend as ‘horrifying,’ ‘ bizarre,’ ‘unbiblical’ and ’un-Christian’.
'God in the New Testament clearly asks wives to arrange themselves under the leadership of their husbands (in Greek, the word 'submit' means 'to arrange under.') But there is no place where husbands are instructed to make their wives do it or punish them if they don't.'
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Yes, there are many different ways a husband can discipline his naughty wife, besides spanking her. The humiliation of standing her in the corner, displaying before and after her bare bottom has been truly walloped good. Displaying the corporal punishment implement beside her, be it a paddle, hairbrush, birch rod, or cane.
ReplyDeleteHaving become interested in spanking when spanking one's wife was still socially acceptable, I find Christian Domestic Discipline an inappropriate label. Nothing I heard or read in the '40s, '50s, or even 1960s used Christianity to justify spanking a grown woman. The most common explanation was some variation of women expect a man to do what he needs to do when it needs to be done. In so far as I could tell, it was true. The first reference I heard linking Christianity to wife spanking was in the early 1970s.
ReplyDeleteSomething else worth pointing out, spanking females is older than Christianity. It is probably the world's oldest fertility treatment. Spanking also seems to have been incorporated in some pre-Christian coming of age rituals for the fairer sex.
Church history reveals that Christianity has a habit of converting local customs into Christian traditions. This is why Christmas occurs about the time of winter solstice and Easter roughly coincides with the vernal equinox. Most likely spanking found its way into Christian domestic practices because it was effective in insuring domestic tranquility.