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Call it whatever you want, it's still kink.
It's very typical of BDSMers, particularly those who live their BDSM roles 24/7, to insist that what they do is "real" and not roleplay. Which is shocking to outsiders, of course -- especially when the role has echoes of real-world oppression (black people who like to bottom to plantation-slave scenarios, Jews who dig Nazi roleplay, et al).
But the fact is that this *is* consensual erotic roleplay. "Domestic discipline" is explicit code for spanking play, regardless of the gender of the participants -- you could just as easily find "domestic discipline" groups whose stated purpose is female-supremacist.
In other words, your initial instincts were correct. These are folks who are dressing up their spanking kink in Christian dogma. Not my kink, but I'm all for more eroticism in the world. If they're happy, I'm happy for them.
- Janet Hardy (aka Lady Green, author, "The Compleat Spanker")
