I was notified by a member of the blog that there is an article appearing in the latest NewsWeek that suggests that Russian Scientists have discovered that a caning has medical benefits.  It seems that my blog post on endorphins may not have been that far off.

If you do not have a NewsWeek handy, you can read a similar article HERE.

Thank you. It's nice to know that I'm not crazy. I suffer for low grade depression from time to time and a good hard paddling always seems to bring me out of it. My wife administers them and is quite good at it, but seem to think she is just compounding the problem. I always feel better after she is done. My sessions are much longer then 60 strokes and she uses a wood paddle.