Interested by your Activity-list remark about the "stern looking woman" on the Hairbrush Club. As you say there is rather too much discussion on what I regard as cruelty - some of the accounts are rather sickening, and show that some couples obviously hated the children they probably could not help breeding.
It's not so much the reminiscing of past bad times that's wrong, as the blatant attempts to promote its continued use, including using weapons like belts, sticks and bits of wood.
I oppose real physical punishment, but do you though share my interest in adult-only, consensual discipline & punishment play? It's curious that like EP, AM has umpteen accounts of abuse, with some of the victims then going to gloat on the "Pro-spanking" forum about being as bad to their own children, but nothing about the purely erotic side of spanking!