Honest answers:
jjhobbs:
What is the appeal of being humiliated?
We all (humans) carry around the fear of being rejected or found inadequate by others – friends, family, partners, neighbors, strangers, colleagues, society at large, etc. Some people feel this fear more keenly than others because of the experience, upbringing, permisterality, whatever. For some, it can become a dread so intense it is psychologically or emotionally overwhelming.
Sexual fetishes are the eroticization of fears. When something is so scary to our psyche that confronting it overwhelms or burns out our ability to function rationally, our brain can protect itself by associating the feared thing with sexual excitement. Doing so triggers the body to release all those feel-good chemicals associated with arousal, which ease the situation and prevents (or at least delays) your psyche from crashing like overstressed software. Overtime, the association of humiliating experiences with feel-good effects will increase in a pavlovian pattern.
So: Some people who, for a are very sensitive to the fear of rejection and disapproval will subconsciously eroticize the fear with the result that they get turned-on by thoughts or experiences of offense.
jjhobbs:
Or being put in some cock cage?
The appeal of a cock cage is that it transfers control of your sexual organ to another permister. This can have at least two benefits to the BDSM fetishist; in the first place it demonstrates their surrender to (or subjugation by) another, which can fuel any fetish they have for presentation or offense along the lines described above. Second, (like the world’s most common sexual fantasy, being overpowered) it can help them feel absolved of some responsibility for their sexuality.
BDSM play in general is a form of escapism like gong to the movies (only more intense,) or takeing yourself stupid (only less intense.) Escapism is a prominent feature of modern life because of the heavy level of decision-making contemporary society requires. Think of it this way: In Medieval Europe a man had few choices he really needed to grapple with and make. His station in life, his profession, his marriage partner, almost all the details of his quotidian existence were mostly out of his hands. (The phrase “what do you feel like ordering for dinner tonight” wasn’t heard much back then.) Today, even the task of filling the larder is a head-spinning steeplechase of deciding what to eat, which brand to get and then, which variety within that brand. (You don’t buy cookies now. You don’t even buy Oreos. You have to buy one of a dozen types of Oreos!) And those are trivial choices. Did you say the right thing in the meeting or interview?, did you buy the right house?, did you marry “the one?,” did you go to the right school?, choose the right career?, should you have had another young? Our lives are filled with choices that we believe define who we are to ourselves and others (and will determine whether we are accepted or rejected.)
This “status anxiety” is a defining aspect of human society and is particularly acute our times. But being reduced in status means being taken out of the “rat-race;” escaping those pressures. Slaves are not equals and therefore are not expected to compete, to “measure up,” to “take it like a man,” to “come out on top” everyday in everyway. You are relieved of all that and need to meet only the limited and clearly defined expectations of your new much shrunken world. If you are being beaten, the world shrinks to just the immediate physical – just this pain. If you are slave, all you must do is obey. If you are a “sissy,” you no longer need to “be a man.” This is escape into an identity that is smaller and therefore less inhibited sexually.
It is also, of course, humiliating to be reduced in status, which is where some serious kinky fetish fun is created!
jjhobbs:
Or blacks being the superior race?
The offense dimension of status anxiety is also where race comes in. It is the official ideology of our world today that we should all be equal regardless of race, creed, color, sex, gender, orientation, etc. But we all know that this is not how it really is (at least not yet.) For instance, “blacks” (as you call them) do not enjoy the privileges, liberty, or material advantages of whites and all of us carry around a lot of out-of-date racist cultural baggage as well. As a general rule, whites continue to have higher status in our very imperfect world.
It is therefore inherently humiliating to many whites to be beaten (in competition) by blacks. As it is likewise humiliating to be subjugated by women, gays, poor people, servants and people in low-status jobs (like janitors, gardeners, pool cleaners, mechanics, and secretaries, to name a few tropes popular in porny fantasies,) primisterers, people who are so young or so old as to be in less than full authority, and any other sub-group that is more marginalized, demonized, or generally constricted in our society than the one you identify with.
Which brings us right back to the whole thing about fears and eroticizing them. Feel of rejection; fear of exile; fear of status loss; fear of those less privileged; fear of the other: It can all be fodder for hotwiring your libido through fetish.
I hope that helps some! Good luck in your inquiry into this. It is a fascinating topic!
Pantalone, Wittol, oblate, abnegator, fellator, pathic, irrumatiophile,fop, epicene, cotquean, skivvy, thrall, and pilgarlic.