Illustration: Lo Cole for the Guardian View image in fullscreen ‘In truth, I’m not sexually attracted to all of the women I spank. Kennedy told the three publications Ayers spanked her on a Saturday morning in February 1975, when the two of them were among a few employees in The Star newsroom.

The allegations against Ayers first emerged in mid-November, in an online column by Joey Kennedy in The Alabama Political Reporter, vaguely mentioning allegations involving his wife, Veronica Pike Kennedy, against a publisher. In response, Burkhalter quit his job and reported the story for a different outlet, The Alabama Political Reporter.Thank God we have the room at the end of the hall, because soon I’m pounding one hand against the headboard and biting the other one to keep from screaming.

I’ve had a lot of sex in my life, but am finding that intercourse is far less important to me than spanking. Anti-government protesters hold their mobile phones aloft as they take part in a pro-democracy rally in Bangkok. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny posing for a selfie with his family at Berlin's Charite hospital.In the middle 1980's, when Eve began working on spanking magazines for adult publishers, there was little to captivate the intelligent and sensitive female reader and viewer.

Drinking a piña colada by the pool, I text the DG to tell him that my pussy is so sore that we may have to postpone our planned fisting attempt, then ask him when he’s coming “home” from work for our first full evening together.

At one point on the date, he became upset with her and “made a comment not calculated to endear me, 'If I knew you better, I'd spank you. In his book In Love with Defeat: The Making of a Southern Liberal, Ayers wrote that in the 1940s, spanking “was as American and Southern as fried chicken on Sundays. A woman looks on from a rooftop as rescue workers dig through the rubble of a damaged building in Beirut. Ayers also acknowledged allegations from Star reporter Veronica Pike Kennedy, who spoke publicly to The Star, The Montgomery Advertiser and The Alabama Political Reporter, that the publisher spanked her 18 times with a ruler in The Star newsroom in 1975. It’s really hard to do all the things we’d talked about as we planned this trip and still leave the bedroom on occasion.

Students use their mobile phones as flashlights at an anti-government rally at Mahidol University in Nakhon Pathom. Kennedy said she then held onto her chair as Ayers “picked me and the chair up” and then “bent me across the desk behind me. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bows to the national flag at the start of a press conference at the prime minister official residence in Tokyo.Members of 'Omnium Cultural' celebrate the 20th 'Festa per la llibertat' ('Fiesta for the freedom') to mark the Day of Catalonia in Barcelona. But after 30 years of putting women over my knee, I’ve come to realise that for many it proves cathartic.