Good points, asp. I will clean it up a bit before it hits the blog.

Also a good question about masos . . . I don't think masochists belong in this scale. They are a completely different animal, just like sissies are, and they can be either submissives or fetishists. The submissive maso gets off on offering his body up to the dominant to use as they wish and takes pride in being able to take the abuse and wear the marks. They usually get off on the endorphin rush as a side effect but that is not their main motivation. I should also note that pain isn't their only interest.

The fetishist maso can run the gambit of fetishizing the whole ritual, including the implements, clothing worn, marks or just the experience of the pain itself. I think a fetishist maso tends to have pain as his primary or only interest.

Because of these things I don't think masochists can be blanketly considered a sub or a fetishist. They can be either or a combination of the two.