maybe the person to ask is the spankee, rather than the spanker. Were you abused?

I was never spanked although one son of a bitch used to hit me with a stick at school for having an untidy desk.

I don't think it enriched my appreciation of the universe much. Who knows - perhaps I would have been a more worthwhile member of society if I had lived under the lash.

As it was, I never achieved much.