Perhaps the prisoner interrogation scene is where the idea or phrase comes from, in whole or in part. In addition to interrogation scenes, it is clear that some dommes do something similar in "consenual nonconsent" scenes, sessions without a safeword, and a few other situations!

There is the book about an American prisoner of war in the Japanese prison camps and it is Unbroken, and so, it is surely an idea that the normal public uses and associates with prisoner and interrogation scenes and real life events.