This is just not so. Though it may appeal to logic that the backside is a safe place to hit, there are many serious injuries associated with paddling. Injuries from spankings are know to have required hospitalization, surgery, and in a few cases, death. That part of the body, though seemingly resilient, has nerves, blood vessels, muscles, cartilage, boney structure and tissues, that are all subjected to harm when hit. Injuries such as bruising, nerve damage, and muscle damage are frequent with spanking.
Force is applied to the base of the spine can result in serious and even permanent back injury.
There are documented cases in which spanking caused injury to the testicles, and in at least one case required corrective surgery. In another documented case, a child died as a result of frequent spankings when an emboli entered a broken blood vessel, blocking the tiny arteries in his heart and brain. Spanking has also been shown to cause psychological damage. There is much evidence that shows spanking can cause or be a contributing factor to depression, anxiety, aggressiveness, hostility, resentment, delinquency, as well as the belief that violence is an acceptable method of getting one's way. Some people insist that the spankings, whippings, or beatings given them did much good, keeping them on the straight and narrow and from a desperate life of crime.