Quote Originally Posted by Aussiegirl1
I remember reading an article about a women who had been abducted when she was a teenager and forced to be a sex slave. She wrote how she had been made to endure whippings without a sound. She was eventually rescued and years later found she needed similar stimulation. She was at the time of writing the article in a BDSM relationship.

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Aussiegirl1
I think I am right when I refer to "Stockholm Syndrome" as the gradual attachment to and developing reliance on a kidnapper by the victim.
This was graphically illustrated a good few years back by the Patty Hearst incident. For those of you that haven't heard of this-Patty was a newspaper mogul's daughter who was kidnapped and consequently "turned" into a willing participant in an armed robbery.
There have been many similar events and I wonder if the same mechanism is at work where an abusee transfers feelings of dependance onto their abuser?
And later are driven to seek out further gratification?
I have no personal knowledge on which to base my thoughts but know that I have always been extremely careful in my dealings with subs. Us humans (and I do count myself as one) are quite delicate and it doesn't take much to send us over the edge.

-but lets not make things worse.