One of the most interesting parts of running this discipline website is to see all the places it reaches across the world. As a man who wants discipline to benefit many more marriages, and to help couples in learning to practice it, I am greatly enthused that it gets a decent readership across the globe, and from non-English speaking countries.
Most often, the most hits come from the largest English speaking nations, starting with the U.S., and moving to the UK, Canada, and Australia. I get a number of readers from a few different European countries, especially Germany, Poland, and France. I’ve also had days that India, Mexico, and Spain are near the top. Once in a while, a nation manages to get to second place after the U.S. I’ve seen Germany, Poland, and India there before. There seems to be fewer visitors from east Asia, and only a few countries from Africa and Latin America appear high on the list of visitors.
While Muslims are known for having a clear view of male leadership, and recognize the woman is under his authority, there are only a few nations with large Muslim populations which visit this discipline site often. They are growing recently, but I’d love to see more. Perhaps cultural or religious differences make this guidebook less appealing to them. Not that I endorse their brand of male authority or discipline, which I find is distorted and lacking the whole truth, but I would think domestic discipline falls MORE into how they see the home than it does for populations in western Europe, which is largely secular and liberal. Or perhaps it mostly just comes down to language ability. In that case we need to get a whole wave of English teachers out there to help with global communications.
I have had a few commenters, and readers who e-mail me from Muslim and Hindu countries. This I greatly appreciate, and I hope to communicate a few things through it. Number one, It shows how common and nearly universal spanking a wife’s bottom is, as well as how similarly common it is to know the man is the head of the home. God writes His law on the hearts of all men, not just Christians. Sometimes Muslims and Hindus do a much better job with marriage and gender that the western Christian does. Similarly they often respect modesty, while the worldly Christian dresses for sensuality or sex. I have still taken the opportunity to share the Gospel with them, but I do not deny their innate knowledge or their hard work they put into living the right way.
A respect for male authority, and for discipline clearly spans the globe. It crosses national, cultural, and religious borders, as it has for thousands of years. Men and women have a proficiency for living this way, because we are designed this way, and it suits our natures. The German, the Egyptian, the Indonesian, the Chinese each are made basically in the same way. It is no wonder why these truths are communicated so broadly in culture and religion.
The one commonality I see beyond how global spanking still is is this: when in contact with secular western culture, each people begins to lose its sense of gender roles. Each people get indoctrinated into gender bending, and today gender “fluidity.” Each culture becomes a target of attack by the spreaders of secularism and knows it has something to fight for and to fight against. They learn that tradition is good. They learn natural law makes more sense than the garbage some PhD is spewing. You learn more about the roles of men and women by one night in bed together, than by a month of some class on “equal rights” taught by an NGO. Stick to what you know, and don’t let rich westerners tell you differently. Send the UN packing when they try to destroy your homes.
I am truly honored to reach men and women throughout the globe. Thank you God. I look forward to more feedback from non-western countries, and from other religious views. Your perspective and thoughts are very welcome here, and I believe they will help inform our more western readers. I invite you to comment, and to write me personally. Where the westerner often has to “rediscover” marital discipline, in many instances your people never lost it in the first place. That is a great advantage.
Lastly, please help one another. I seek to teach and encourage marital discipline, and also create a community which will nourish each other. Not only are you not alone, but you walk in step with families across the globe. Your gains are shared by others, as are your struggles. Your experience can be very valuable to hear. We must uplift men as our leaders, and honor the godly wives who gently follow them. Let’s do so together.
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