Speakeasy forum: This proves it! Whipping Your Children Makes Them Good.

If it works on adults....
maybe this is why liberals are so miserable when they grow up, they didn't get enough loving, caring, spankings when they were children. Could it be they are just seeking a parent's loving discipline?

"Siberian psychologist Dr German Pilipenko started practicing a unique
form of addiction therapy termed the "method of limited exposure or
pain" in 2004, according to the Siberian Times. The technique involves beating drug addicts with a cane on their backsides.

"We cane the patients on the buttocks with a clear and definite
medical purpose - it is not some warped sadomasochistic activity," said
Pilipenko's fellow practitioner, Marina Chukhrova.

Pilipenko said he's treated more than a thousand patients, including
Americans. They come seeking cures for their addictions to drugs,
alcohol, work and even sex.

"I am the proof that this controversial treatment works," one of
Pilipenko's patients, "Natasha," told the Times. "I recommend it to
anyone suffering from an addiction or depression. It hurts like crazy --
but it's given me back my life."

Pilipenko said part of the reason the treatment works is because it
releases endorphins into the blood stream, which are often depleted in
addicts. "