[Farmgirl]

I agree that the hand is usually all that is necessary. I say that, having experienced spankings for two purposes. It was punishment for me as a kid, and while I might have disagreed at the time, in looking back I don't consider it abuse, even though switches and various kitchen implements were used on me. In my teens it morphed into erotic foreplay...and that has resulted in my credo today being "the most intimate position is across a male lap, and the most intimate implement is the male hand!"

You may have your artificial implements if you want pure punishment, but I don't, and what I want now is intimacy, which for a female definitely means the male hand...