Spanking as a great intro to active play forms. A lot of people combine spanking with other erotic stimuli like role plays. In strict role play’s spanking is often used as “punishment”, like daddy & naughty girl, uncle & naughty niece, teacher & schoolgirl…
However, spanking is on of the classics in erotic power exchange and the term spanking is usually used for anything that has to do with spanking the bottom. But in general, spanking is just spanking if it is done by hand – thought there can be used other shapes in form of a hand as well.