While yesterday’s post is getting some fascinating responses, I recommend that you read the article Pandora posted last night, spinning off the topic of guilt attacks, but in a way I haven’t encountered before:
But for me, and I expect millions of other people, kinky and vanilla, there is a third circle in the Venn diagram of discomfort: the fascination of the horrific. I am drawn to stories of child abuse, serial killers and human tragedies in the way that other people watch horror films. I have no interest whatsoever in horror fiction but I find stories of human suffering/cruelty/torture very difficult to look away from. I seek them out, and it’s not a kinky interest – just a fascination.
Be sure to read the comments!