Whip me, Beat me, Make me feel like an IDIOT!
   This documentary does hit on the key issues of instinctual
drive, Sex and Aggression. I felt like sex and aggression was met by
both participants in each sexcapade by the use of what the customer
felt was a mixture of love and domination. Love is what I felt all the
customers were looking to their dominatrix for; and by them
humiliating, beating  and subduing them the customer attained a
feeling of what they felt was love, something that had probably been
lacking since early childhood. Aggression for the most part was
released by the mistress who, in my opinion, also needed that release
of a basic instinctual drive -- Aggression. This was probably fueled
by a subdued hatred for men or to attain that feeling of power one
gets when they conquer something.


Another issue is the cathartic effect this type of expression has
as a means for deterring non-consensual sexual activity. This
statement was illustrated best by the man who had psychotic
thoughts and feelings and used this as a means of "getting things in
his head right", if he had not had this mental and sexual release he
could very well have committed some sort of heinous crime against
humanity. So I may not agree with these people or even see the
soothing capabilities of this "therapy" but that does not mean it does
not hold its own social value and merit.


In closing I would like to say that I feel enlightened to have this
information, which may help me in the future to sympathize with
someone who may have that "urge", and I feel that armed with this
knowledge I may be able to recognize that deviant in the future.