You did say something about my emotional range; you called me a robot, remember?
I do have an insufficiency, and I’m not deflecting so much as cutting straight to the chase. A girl’s relationship with her father becomes the pattern for all of her future relationships with men. If a man does not express affection appropriately to his daughter, her ability to receive it in every form will be stunted, and her capacity to form intimate bonds will be arrested, underdeveloped or skewed. This does not merely apply to her sex life. My relationship to my father was tumultuous and occasionally violent. My relationships with men have followed the same pattern. It was much worse when I was younger, before I met my husband. I left some damaged people in my wake.
You seem to imply that my sexuality being patterned after my relationship with my father is a bad thing, possibly because you are uncomfortable with the notion of deriving sexual pleasure from violence. But the same principle holds true for you- and everyone. What do your preferences say about your relationship with your father? Mine may point to a poor relationship, but I appreciate the shape of my lust just the same.
While every subtle variation of sexual preference may well be linked to our first relationships with our parents and siblings, to profoundly scrutinize the matter is pointless, because our penchants run so deep, they are unlikely to ever change. We may as well learn to make the best of them.
It is possible to be sadomasochistic and have a healthy sex life, if you aren’t concerned with society’s definition of “healthyâ€, or what others might think of your predilections.
Sex is just a means through which to give and obtain pleasure. I may be cerebral, but I’m too hedonistic to deny myself what feels good, just because society deems it unpalatable.