Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and BDSM

As many of you who have been following me may remember, I am addicted to higher learning. As a result, I acquired a perfectly useless MBA about five years ago. As part of this particular branch of my education, I was required to study the management and motivation of employees. The only interesting aspect of these courses was my introduction to Abraham Maslow.

Maslow was a professor of psychology and published several seminal works including his 1943 paper Theory of Human Motivation in which h...