IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093177/
But there was and it was cut. So it may re-surface in extended editions or so if we are lucky.
Here are the facts:
When Clive was shooting HELLRAISER he got to a point in discussions with lead Clare Higgins where they felt they needed to define what the character’s sex life was like with her former lover Frank. The days of Dorian Gray, where you could keep it on the q.t., were gone. “I think she’s into spanking,” declared Higgins. “Great!” replied Barker.
They shot a scene. The producer cabled him the next day. “I’ve just seen the rushes. Fan-tastic stuff. We can’t use any of it.”
Barker protested that he needed guidance, in that case, as to what would be acceptable. He was sent a detailed list of the dos and do-not-dos. “It did wonders for my sex life,” he said later. “I now knew exactly the point where I was crossing over into obscenity.”
Source: https://dcairns.wordpress.com/2021/12/10/great-party-2/
Confirmation comes from LostMediaWiki
https://lostmediawiki.com/Hellraiser_(p ... ilm;_1987)
Original Cut
The scenes cut in the original version by the MPAA include the following:
A flashback sex scene between Julia and her other lover Frank in order to reduce the amount of explicit sexual activity, including anal sex and spanking.[...]To this day, much of the cut material has yet to surface, with Barker confessing that he is unaware of where it
"We did a version of this which had some spanking in it and the MPAA was not very appreciative of that (Lord knows where the spanking footage is...) but they had said - and this is the honest truth - they actually couple on the bed in a little while, the MPAA told me that I was allowed two consecutive buttock thrusts but a third would be deemed obscene.
Source: https://www.clivebarker.info/hr1scene1c.html
So all the signs point to this being a lost spanking.
