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This article is nothing but original research. Yes -- there are literary works that involve spanking. There are probably some secondary sources on the topic of spanking in literature (it is hard to search for them, though, because search terms like "spanking literature" mostly bring up medical and social science papers). But there are no reliable sources that support the idea of "spanking literature" as a genre.
Looking at the two sources cited in this mostly unsourced article, I do not have access to The erotic margin: sexuality and spatiality in alteritist discourse but it is only used to support the inclusion of one book in the very long list of books, so I doubt it contains any substantial analysis of "spanking literature" as a whole. The Private Case is again used to cite the existence of one book and it is a bibliography, discussing individual works, not the topic in general. There is an external link to an article on sadomasochistic literature on glbtq.com but the article does not even mention spanking.
The article discusses the "Golden Age of Spanking" at length, but this concept does not seem to exist outside of Wikipedia, blogs, and porn novels self-published through Amazon: see Google search results. I checked Gale and JSTOR as well -- nothing. This appears to be pure WP:OR. Similarly, searches for "spanking literature", "spanking fiction", "spanking books" and so on only bring up examples of such, not WP:RS coverage of the supposed genre. Books about spanking indeed exist but this article is just a mess of unsourced synthesis. SpicyMilkBoy ( talk) 00:04, 11 May 2020 (UTC)