Are You a Sad Oddball?

Readers have posted their responses to the MSNBC article on the fetish subculture article we noted last week.

While most of the comments on the web page are positive I suspect this guy really does speak for the majority:

They are all sad oddballs.

Leah of Houston, Texas speaks from my part of the BDSM spectrum:

I am a submissive, masochistic woman, and I certainly don’t believe myself to be mentally ill, nor do I really think of myself as “just having some fun.” What we do is fun, of course, and I wouldn’t do it if it didn’t make me happy, but it fills a need in my soul, just like sex and intimacy do. Without submission and pain, I get cranky and irritable, just like I do if I’m not getting sex regularly. Same principle there. I think some people are just wired to crave more sensation, and more intense sensation, a.k.a. pain, than others. And some people just prefer to give up control, to obey, to let someone else decide sometimes. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, and I don’t understand why it’s anathema to so many people.

Read all the comments: As long as nobody gets hurt in the act, what’s the big deal?

Now if my beloved would only get back home and put my collar on me.