Christian Domestic Discipline

People wonder sometimes why I spend so much time on one verse. It is true that focusing on one verse can create irreparable damage, but sometimes it can highlight an abusive methodology that is based on an altered truth.

The verse I focus on is Genesis 3:16. It is an important verse because it explains what went wrong with the male-female relationship that was once harmonious once evil entered the world.

From Intelligent Submission & Other Ways of Feminine Wisdom

"How many times can a verse be changed in Bible translations before anyone notices that something fishy is going on? Is it possible to do it, say, nine times over the course of sixteen centuries? Yes, it actually is. Genesis 3.16 has been changed numerous times over the centuries. With every major change in theology, this one verse has been changed in both wording and meaning. But why this particular verse of all the verses in the Bible? Because it is the only verse in the Bible that talks about the man's rule.
The first change was made by Jerome in the beginning of the fifth century in his newly created Latin translation. Instead of providing a literal translation, he decided to express the meaning of the verse as the patristic church understood it. In the Vulgate, Genesis 3.16 tells us that the woman was placed under the man’s authority for Jerome thought the verse said God caused the woman to turn to the man as a punishment for her sin. For about a thousand years, the Latin translation was the only one available. When the reformers decided to rid themselves of the obsolete language in favor of languages actually spoken by the people, the meaning of the verse was changed again. The German reformer, Luther, changed Jerome‟s paraphrase with a small addition of his own: he added the word “will” to the text making the woman‟s will subject to the man as a punishment for her sin; Calvin agreed with Luther for he thought the verse said the woman would desire only that which the husband wished, as her punishment was servile subjection.The creators of the Geneva Bible decided that it was the woman‟s desire that was subject to the man while Luther‟s English contemporary Myles Coverdale chose the word “lust,” making the woman literally lust after the man. The King James Version scholars must have felt uneasy about using such a crude word for they chose the more polished word “desire,” setting precedence for four centuries of translations. A deviation from the norm - and the Septuagint itself - is found in the nineteenth-century English translation of the Greek Septuagint in which the woman‟s submission is said to be to her husband. The latest change, made at the end of the twentieth century, is found in the footnotes of The New Living Translation: the desire is now understood to be the woman's desire to control the man."

This novel idea that the woman desires to control the man is the source of a modern phenomenon, the Christian Domestic Discipline (CDD).
(See: http://www.christiandomesticdiscipline.com/)

According to CDD, "the husband has authority to discipline the wife. The wife does not have authority to discipline her husband. See Gen. 3:16."

What do they mean by it?

"Let's look at the first one a bit. This is a classic Genesis 3 classification. Women seek to usurp their husbands' authority by the nature of the Fall. Due to the same Fall, men seek to allow this to happen. The root of this is trust, or rather a lack of it. Indeed, this very nature in women is the single least common denominator in the "equal rights movement", i.e. Feminism. Were women born naturally with the inclination to trust, Feminism would not exist. Understand that I'm not speaking about trusting in the Lord, for this is something that only the Holy Spirit can bring about, in either man or woman. Rather, that any woman, regenerate or otherwise, will struggle with trusting any earthly authority, be it ecclesiastical, familial or other authority."

In other words, decause of sin, women have a tendency to distrust authority figures, wherefore they tend to rebel. Like a child, a woman is best disciplined through spanking:

"When administering physical discipline, take caution not to deliver the lashes anywhere but the buttocks. The first attempt at this punishment should only be delivered by hand so you can get an idea of how many lashings are needed. The best position will be for you to sit at the end of a bed or on a chair (with no arms) and have her lay across your lap. She can also bend over a bed with arms tucked under her chest and your left hand on the small of her back. If a strap (belt) is to be implemented watch that each stoke falls directly on the buttocks and not higher. EDITOR'S NOTE: When using the hand, or a small, short implement, such as a switch or small "hairbrush"-type paddle, over-the-knee positioning can work quite well."

What is the desired effect of spanking? 

"Her reaction after the lashing will let you know if this punishment works for her. She should be genuinely remorseful, tearful, and sore, but have an overwhelming desire to please you."

An overwhelming desire to please the man.

Now this is an interesting point, for (the original) Genesis 3:16 says that as a result of sin, a woman will turn to the man for help, which gives the man an opportunity to rule over her.

But there's more.

"On a related topic, so far as I can tell, the real reason for banishing the paddle from public school classrooms had more to do with trying to put the *domestic discipline* genie back in the bottle than it did with protecting children from educators. Schools were the designated *flag ship* of a no-spank movement that obscured the fact that girls could be quite successfully spanked after puberty. The idea being, that if spanking was eliminated, boys would never know big girls could be spanked and this would carry over into adult life. Thus, no woman would ever again be spanked by a boyfriend, husband, or boss."

Your boss should be allowed to spank you? Okay...

That some girls can "be quite successfully spanked after puberty" isn't enough for some:

"Maintenance discipline is a practice of giving your wife regular spankings to maintain her proper behavior and attitude. From our experience when Kim receives this type of discipline she is more humble and her attitude is greatly improved. Whether you as an H[ead]O[f] H[ousehold] decide to conduct these on monthly, weekly or daily schedules is up to you. I have found that daily spanking work best for Kim. Maintenance spankings help to remind her to be on her best behavior and to help keep her attitude in the proper manner, letting her know that she is required to maintain her behavior and not slip into being careless and disrespectful to her HOH."

Daily spanking?

It seems that CDD is more about women craving the energy that comes from being spanked.

"When a woman has not been punished for some time, the memory of the painful spanking she received due to her bad behavior will start to fade and the wife's attitude may change for the worse. With a regular maintenance spanking she is reminded of just how painful a punishment spanking is and that she is required at all times to act accordingly. Another reason for the maintenance spankings is to re-establish the emotional and intimate connection of the wife and the HOH, bringing out the Masculine energy from the HOH and the feminine energy from his wife. All women crave this energy. This energy is what couples feel when they were still all flowers and sunsets."

For...

"She needs and desires to submit to you and your decisions as her HOH, and by taking time to slow down the spanking and thoroughly punishing her she will find solace and be happier."

Hmm... Doesn't this sound more like sadomasochism than domestic discipline?

"Erotic spankings usually administered by the hand to the bared buttocks. Voluntary nudity and enthusiastic submission are not uncommon. These episodes are more about play than about pain, although depending on the desire of the participants, there may be quite a bit of play *and* pain. Still, in the scheme of things, they serve a useful purpose because vaginal lubrication signals the first stage of female submission to male prerogatives. That is why it is often the gateway to discovering the virtues of *domestic discipline*."

For....

"Still, most women actually prefer to be spanked harder than men often realize. It is not the spanking they crave so much as the release they experience"

In other words, married women should be spanked, preferably daily, for they need the sexual release. Could anyone be more explicit?

So, if it's really about sex, what does God have to do with it?

"Make no mistake. God is no fool. Just as He made men and women so that they would become attracted to each other and bond, He made men a little larger, a little stronger, and a little smarter for a reason. Man-made laws demanding *absolute gender equality* will not repeal the natural order of things."

Ah! Men are smarter - except that they aren't. The scientific discipline of sociology proved women to be equally smart over a century ago, but that hasn't stopped anyone from making false claims, such as:

"One line of thought - heard from both men and women - is that women were made, both psychologically and physically, to be spanked by men. Women really do want their men to *take charge* - as my wife refers to it."

What about the idea that women want to be raped by men? Who do you think came up with that idea?


But here's the real question: why does the author on the website call himself "No One"? Just like Monsanto, if he is so proud of his product, why does he hide behind anonymity? Perhaps because the idea of a woman being a perpetual child in need of physical discipline isn't quite as popular as it used to be. Grown women are quite capable of taking care of their own mental and physical well being, without the aid of a paddle - or a husband who's more than willing to use it.