Spencer Spanking Plan

The Spencer Spanking Plan is said to have come out of America in the 1930's , supposedly copyrighted in 1936 . The plan took the form of a written agreement between couples ( and young women living away from home ) to accept corporal punishment for infractions of agreed written rules . See http://www.spankoz.com/spencer.htm for a discussion and the full text . We also created a modified plan , the Spankoz Plan . These Plans may work well with a little fine tuning .

The Spencer Plan was reproduced in the 1990's , Nu West printed a pamphlet style copy :

I have yet to see a copy dating from the 1930's , or even the following two decades . I think that it would be easier to find a Gutenberg Bible . As an historical document , the Plan may well be an urban myth . Nevertheless , many sites reproduce the Plan as genuine . The same argument applies to the " Spencer Paddle " , which I suspect may have been an ordinary hair or clothes brush . I think the paddle was introduced to allow the " weaker " female to provide the same pain level as the " stronger " male . In practice , this may not be so and thresholds can increase over time . Beware of snake oil salesmen selling " Genuine Spencer Paddles " !

Another possible snake oil salesman is spencerplan.org , I am suspicious because I have not heard of the site before and The Internet Archive ( http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spencerplan.org ) only has three listings , dating from 2007 : Jun 21, 2007 ,*Sep 19, 2007 and Sep 21, 2007 . A WHOIS search shows that spencerplan.org was " Created On:30-Apr-2007 19:51:44 UTC " . From a cursory search , I could lot find any links to spencerplan.org from recognised educational sites .

Spencerplan.org states that :

" The following is the original text Foreword from her book, published in 1936. The first mention of the Spencer Plan being used was in a 1929 notation from Mrs. Spencer's diary, the use of which spread by word of mouth until sometime around 1935 when Dorothy Spencer began work on her manuscript. By this time there were already thousands of couples engaged in the practice. "

" Once her book was released the, initial printing run of 50,000 copies sold out in under six weeks. 14 subsequent reprints have been documented. The last printing of her book seems to have been in 1958. "

Note : U.S. copyright law requires that two copies of each book published in the U.S. be sent to the Library of Congress yet they appear to have no record of Dorothy Spencer , nor has Google . ( " In 1870, Congress passed a law that centralized the copyright system in the Library of Congress. No legislation was more important to the development of the Library than that law, which required all authors to deposit in the Library two copies of every book, pamphlet, map, print, and piece of music registered in the United States. " - Wikipedia . )

" This site is dedicated to helping people start with and maintain Spencer Plan Doctrine within their lives and homes. We also provide resource materials to help individuals and couples understand the core principals of the Spencer Plan, how to implement the Spencer Plan and a place to get personal answers to questions they may have about the Plan. "

" We also share information about the Spencer Scholarship program. Dorothy Spencer used the profits from the sale of her book to provide an endowment to start this program. Starting in September of 1940 and continuing today, the Spencer Scholarship program has helped more than 3,500 young people successfully complete their post-secondary education. Scholarships may be used for undergraduate, graduate or post-graduate study within an accredited degree program offered by any university recognized in North America. The scholarships provide for tuition, books, room & board and a weekly stipend to cover incidental expenses. For further information, please refer to the Spencer Scholarship program pages. "

Could this be a variation of phishing or trolling ? I leave that question to you , Dear Visitor .
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