I was ‘lucky’ enough to be schooled in Alabama, in the southern US, which in the mid-70s was very paddle-friendly. I haven’t fully figured out the origins of my spanking fetish – but Southern Baptist day care might have had something to do with it.
All of the pre-school and kindergarten teachers were young women (I always had a crush on Miss Julie or Miss Annie, or whoever it was who was teaching at the moment) and none of them had any qualms about spanking us.