Roth also portrays females as the torturess, as well as the torture victim. Something which also makes my blood curdle. Just because they got tits doesn't neccessarily exempt them from the same destructive ego-centric character typically associated with patriarchal dominance.

I don't know about satisfying latent brutal instincts, I think it can also serve to exacerbate them. I know from my own experience at watching porn anyway, it makes me exacerbate like buggery!