what your favorite spanking implement?
There are plusses and minuses. A hand is very tactile, feeling skin on skin. The spanker gets a good feel of the bum. But it's hard to spank (or be spanked) hard enough with the bare hand - the hand stings as much as the bum. Then a spatula or a whip are good, especially to get rosy cheeks.
Maybe the positions can be more important. Yes the Sub/victim can be tied and helpless. But isn't it better to have them squirming naked across your bare knees?
Have you tried it? If I had you suspended your hands would be tied too. Being blindfold you wouldn't know where I was, which direction the next hit would come from. And Who's to say that more tender parts won't be hit?
You're right about having a spanking with a hand. Easy to find for it's always handy. (Okay, poor pun). But I think a wooden spoon or a flog would feel especially good. I have fantasized about someone using a ride crop on me while suspended in the middle a room. I think the sting would be such a pain/pleasure mix that I might like.
Have you ever thought about being suspended, spread eagle, face down about 5 1/2-6 feet above the floor at a party? People could walk past or under you and do what they like to you in passing and you would have no way to avoid it. They could slap/spank or paddle you, apply nipple clamps, play with your cock & balls, shove a dildo or vibrator in your ass or whatever else may come to mind. How does that sound to you?