Finding_Fantasy is in no way a pain slut, so spanking and caning has a different meaning for her than it does for people who are more masochistic than she is. To masochists, spankings are a turn-on and basically foreplay.

Many sadists will not use spankings as punishments at all, knowing very well that is exactly what their masochistic little toy wants from them. Instead, they will think of painless alternative, usually involving humiliation (standing in a corner), discipline (the taking away of a privilege) or an assignment (writing "I have been a bad little slut" 200 times by hand).