Used on bare skin it produces considerable sting at low force leaving no redness at all after 20 or 30 minutes. If a parent spanks over clothes in my days it would have been full sized knickers plus a petticoat plus a pleated woolen skirt at winter time they will have to use a heavier implement and spank much harder which increases the risk of producing longer lasting deep muscular damage.
I agree that today a girl might as well keep her skimpy panties on. That brush certainly had a fascination for me too. But the main thing was I never really knew when it was to be used as we were never sentenced to "the brush. Generally however we knew that it had to be something fairly classic for the brush to be used and to be honest a "normal" spanking, while unpleasant, was not something that caused me to worry about too much until the moment.
Teen years we were always warned that we were not too old to be spanked, or "you're not too old to be put over my knee young lady. I don't think a bare bottom spanking is ever needed either, though my mom did some when I was under the age of 7.
My dad never spanked any of us on anything but clothed bottoms. My mom did what she was taught, like I think a lot of people do, so I harbor no ill feelings about them, but I have told her that her bare bottom spankings and implements were unneeded at the time, her hand on my pants worked the same magic on my behavior. And as far as dads not spanking a girl's bare bottom, my dad preserved my modesty as well as my brothers and I am appreciative of that.
The spankings coming from him were terrible enough since I was a daddy's girl and had so much admiration for him. Some men feel the same way, while their wives will spank a bared bottom Mom's always feel physically different towards their kids than men do.
