Original sentence: However that may be, it is not only in former slave states that the paddle has been used in schools.In the great majority of cases, the paddle is aimed at the recipient's buttocks; rarely, the back of the thighs might also be targeted.It is not known why or exactly when it became the normal implement for corporal punishment in US schools.One anti-corporal-punishment author claims that the paddle was originally invented for the punishment of slaves as a way of causing intense pain without doing any permanent damage to the recipient.Spanking paddles are made of wood, or occasionally plastic
Edited sentence: According to George Ryley Scott, the spanking paddle was invented by a Caucasian man who lived in the State of Virginia: "With the slave-owners it was directed to the finding of a method of punishing the negroes without affecting adversely their market value.During a punishment spanking, the wide surface of the blade might be used to hit a person's buttocks and thighs.During ritual and erotic spankings, the wide surface of a spanking paddle's blade is used to hit a person's buttocks.It was to an enterprising Virginian 'white' that came the big idea whereby it was possible to 'whip' or beat a negro into insensibility without leaving any traces of the owner's handiwork.Spanking paddles are usually made of wood and are sometimes made of plastic.To this end, he devised a thin wooden 'paddle' punctured all over its flat surface with small holes.With this instrument, so it was said, a slave could be given such terrible punishment that he lost consciousness, and yet no lacerations, fissures, or other signs of punishment having been inflicted, would result