Draft of An Exploration of BDSM

I get a lot of people who ask me (or ask the message boards I'm on) why those of us who enjoy BDSM, enjoy BDSM. I wrote an answer and I think I can explore this post and turn it into an essay that I can use to better answer this question in the future. So I'm posting it here for safe keeping (I expect my computer to crash at any moment, causing me to lose all my files ... some things are just safer in storage on someone else's server right now). Eventually I'll revisit this and work on it more. I could post this as private since I'm not really requesting any comments, but I think I'll go ahead and make it public in case someone's comments help me to better clarify future drafts.

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