BDSM: Submission and the Path to Freedom

In college, I wrote a term paper for an English Lit class on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. In it, I argued that Kate's submission to Petruchio was, in truth, her release from the captivity of the societal strictures around her, because only with Petruchio and through her submission to him was she free to be herself. Now, at the time, I'd never even heard of BDSM let alone knew anything about D/s, but I look back on that now in a whole new light. Frankly, it makes me wonder if...