19. When Rousseau’s Desire For a Spanking Almost Ended in an Unexpected Severe Ass Kicking
When he was eight-years-old, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was sent to live with a Calvinist minister named Lambercier, and his daughter. Mademoiselle Lambercier treated young Rousseau as if he was her son – and disciplined him as a mother would have in those days. That included spanking when he misbehaved. Rather than be terrified by the punishment, Rousseau discovered that he rather liked it. As he described it in his autobiographical Confessions: “I had found in the pain, even in the disgrace, a mixture of sensuality which had left me less afraid than desirous of experiencing it again from the same hand. No doubt some precocious sexual instinct was mingled with this feeling, for the same chastisement inflicted by her brother would not have seemed to me at all pleasant“. From then on, he deliberately misbehaved in order to get spanked, until Mademoiselle Lambercier finally gave up on trying to discipline him.
That left Rousseau with a lifelong spanking fetish. Years later, he reminisced: “Who would believe this childish discipline, received at eight years old, from the hands of a woman of thirty, should influence my propensities, my desires, my passions, for the rest of my life, and that in quite a contrary sense from what might naturally have been expected?” Rousseau was shy around women, and spent his life wanting to get spanked, without mustering the courage to ask a woman to do that. The repressed desire got so bad, that he haunted dark alleys to expose his bare butt to passing women. He never got a spanking, but on at least one occasion, almost got an ass kicking from an enraged crowd. Some girls who saw his butt screamed. Rousseau was chased in the night and cornered, but escaped a beating way more severe than a spanking by feigning insanity.
