Socially Acceptable Behavior

There's something perverse about the way sadomasochism has been accepted by society; within a sexual context, you can tie someone up, whip the hell out of them, and still be considered psychologically healthy, but only because you're doing it to get your rocks off.

 Yarrrgh.

Meanwhile, if you do the same thing in day-to-day life, if you throw someone to the ground, beat the shit out of them, and say its totally nonsexual and platonic, people will look at it suspiciously, like "there's gotta be something going on between those two..."