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I don't have kids, but I really can't imagine myself spanking them. I was never spanked as a child, but I do enjoy it in a sexual context, so in my personal experience spanking is a sexual thing and it is creepy for me to think about doing it to a child.
My parents never hit me, although I remember my dad coming close one time (I don't remember why). And once my mom slapped my brother because he had thrown something at her. In general, though, the punishments I grew up with were mostly lectures, being sent to my room, and not being allowed to do something I wanted to. I always cared about my parents' feelings enough that knowing that they were unhappy with me was bad enough. And I think I grew up ok -- I graduated from college early, I have a decent job and a good marriage, and I treat others with respect and consideration (I even try to on the Internet!). The one thing I never learned to do was to maintain a clean room or apartment, but I don't really think that spanking me for not cleaning my room could have changed that -- it would have just made me hate cleaning even more.
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