Zseni wrote:

I was watching an episode of Maury the other day where the abused wives of abusive husbands were separated from their spouses for a day. The (brutish, terrible!) husbands went off with a gigantic muscled negro to learn about how it felt to be dominated, and the wives were treated to makeovers to improve their self-esteem. {Irrelevant aside: Firefox believes that "negro" is a misspelled word. Also "faggots". "Rough-n-tumble" passes without comment.} The audience loved it - to them there is nothing more reasonable than putting sadists into the hands of a sadist, and rendering up passive appeasing bodies to the gods of the salon, where they sat still for two hours, and became pretty.