I would have to agree with you there, veru. A story that has violence with no reason other than the pure sake of violence has little to no interest to me. It in fact makes me a little angry. Maybe perhaps because I was in an intensely abusive relationship where I was beaten on a whim? I don't know.

Isn't it kind of funny how we find just blatant, unprovoked violence as appalling and yet if it has a "purpose" a "meaning" we get aroused? Strange isn't it. I guess we BDSMer's are a weird sort of animal