(If you want to skip straight to the sex, scroll down to the first break. This is a long one.)
Back in the late 90s, I thought I was a god on the nascent internet. I hung out in all the right AOL chatrooms, visited all the right websites, and sysop'd all the right BBSes in my local area. I was 18, and I'd been reading erotica text files and hosting pornographic pictures on my own BBS for years already. That plus some built-in predilections led me to know that I was into spanking.