Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Petticoat Punishment

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The result of the debate was Keep Zzyzx11 (Talk) 01:17, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Petticoat Punishment

Nonsense and not encyclopedic. -- Longhair | Talk 12:05, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Delete -- Longhair | Talk 12:05, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and Rewrite/Expand: It was put up for vfd when it was only an hour old! 53,900 Google hits suggest that it is more than nonsense. Sonic Mew 13:28, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
• Weak keep. Well, I only find 4,580 Google hits [1], but it seems to be a valid topic. However, if this stays, then parent topic - the fetish of petticoating - should have an article as well, I think. -- Marcika 13:35, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with appropriate fetish. --nixie 13:31, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • That would be transvestic fetishism then, i guess. -- Marcika 15:01, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge per Petaholmes and Marcika. -- Captain Disdain 17:37, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Don't merge. This is not a fetish but a very interesting form of discipline that, fortunately, seems to be in relative disuse today. This article is not very well written but I found a very good description at A Short History of Petticoat Discipline. DS1953 18:13, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • You have obviously never been in a leather bar. Many fetishes involved being "punished". In this case, the fetish is for an ancient punishment that seems to have beenr revivied. Anyway, this article is just an advertisment for a site the celebrates this fetish. It's amazing all the different ways people can get off, but I don't think every little one rates its own article. ----Isaac R 19:32, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • But the point is that this is actually used as a real punishment. It can easily be compared to spanking: Though it is used in an erotic form, it is also used as real discipline on children. The question is whether this deserves its own article like spanking, or should be merged as a section of the fetish article. Sonic Mew 20:13, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
      • There are many stories of parents punishing a child caught smoking by forcing them to smoke a large amount; likewise with drinking alcohol. Do these all warrant encyclopedia articles? The interest in this particular case seems to be only due to its fetish associations. --Tabor 20:31, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep this disturbing fetish or punishment or whatever, doesn't seem to need merging anywhere. Kappa 20:27, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Lovely subject but it needs to be NPOV'd a bit. Petticoat punishment is a prominent feature of transgender erotica and D/S roleplay, and is a lot of fun and an excuse to dress up. It has probably been attempted in real life also, but I'd like to see references for that. There are plenty of anecdotes by fetishists who claim they were started by being petticoated but this isn't enough because obviously everybody likes to make up fantasies about their fetish. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 21:30, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep ··gracefool |☺ 08:19, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. If this is real fetish redirect. Pavel Vozenilek 21:02, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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