Not blaming anyone, just bringing up an interesting point. Americans prefer a open system with checks and balances over secret agreements and clandestine control.

Or maybe they don't. There is no Right to Privacy in the Constitution. Nor am I an advocate of such a right.

The ending for Secretary was good but made me question its validity. I don't know that two sadists could have a lasting relationship, with the nature of sadism being violence, fantasy and powerlessness.

Oh wait, nevermind. A lot of people get married for those reasons.

"The effect of jealousy cannot be overestimated ... it effects ideas of putting someone out of the way, fantasies of revenge, which are repressed, but which form the nucleus of the masochistic feeling of inferiority. The sadistic and masochistic intertwining fantasies are only variations of these original ideas of revenge."
WHO BECOMES A SADO-MASOCHIST?