Spanking

Spanking is inherently violent. It is also inherently sexual.
And despite tons of evidence that spanking is bad for kids, lots of Americans seem to be OK with it.
It was a childrearing book. It sat on a bookshelf in our house for months until I couldn't stand the sight of it any more. Finally I got rid of it.
Spanking in one form or another is as American as apple pie--and the practice is deeply rooted in, and most often defended by, a reading of traditional translations of the English Bible.