Spanko Voice
I often tell people that I was a very weird child who turned into an even weirder adult, but that has always been fine because I’ve always been me and I’ve always been authentic.
At the age of seven I became so obsessed with spanking after seeing a depiction of a spanking scene in a picture book. I thought about it constantly. By the time I was nine, I had created a mock school in my bedroom. I played the “teacher” and the neighborhood kids became my “naughty” students.
At the time, I saw nothing unusual about this. I assumed everyone was interested in spanking the way I was. Ironically, that is the opposite of what most people tell me! Many spankos grow up believing they are the only person in the world with this interest.
It was not until high school that I realized that no one shared my love for spanking. That was the only period of my life when I stopped engaging in spanking play, although I certainly never stopped thinking about it!
When I turned eighteen and moved to San Francisco for university I was finally able to explore spanking again, and more importantly, I began to look for other people like myself.
Every spanko has their own story. Some stories are similar to mine, others are very different. What you do with your own spanking obsession is entirely up to you. Some people ignore it for years. Some explore it quietly. Some embrace the community. Others, like me, act on it early and eventually create something from it.
Creating a website offering spanking sessions was not the most original idea in the world, even in 2012. But when I sat down that year with a notebook and began journaling ideas for what I wanted to build, something very personal emerged and that is when NaturallyGin was born.
NaturallyGin is my spanko voice. It is my history, my present and the expression of my first love. It is not a brand. It is me. There is no pretending and no imitation. The way I conduct sessions, the tone I use, and the structure I built all developed from my own instincts and experience. There was no blueprint. I simply followed what had always come naturally to me.
Recently I have been seeing people try to take what is deeply personal to me and to others and reduce it to something generic. A manufactured persona. I just want to say, please don’t do that. Take the time to find your own spanko voice, in your own language and in your own way of being. It is important that you do this, because your voice is stronger when it is your own.
I’ve always been an avid journal writer, but as I was moving to the Netherlands, I shredded dozens of my journals because I just didn’t want the hassle of dragging them around anymore. The only one I kept was from the time I spent in Australia, and I saved the pages from 2012 where I came up with the first concepts for NaturallyGin, a few of which you can see above!
