is often not allowed appropriate expression. The suppressed anger caused by being hit will often find expression in the form of delinquency. This played a major role in shaping famous pathological characters such as Adolf Hitler to become the severely violent and apathetic people that they were. (Hyman 163) Likewise, regarding substance use by young people, society refuses to see what function addiction actually has in (young peoples) lives and how they are unconsciously using it to communicate something to the outside world. Young addicts are often trying to communicate that they are hurting inside from the degrading practices that their caretakers employ. Substance use helps to suppress their pain. Children who have been spanked run the risk of equating sexual arousal with physical pain. (Straus 121-126) Taking this argument a step further, Strauss research shows that sadomasochistic sexual tendencies arise out of associating love with pain. Sigmund Freud saw masochism as a need for punishment at the hands of a parental power. (Freud 1961) Richard Zacks, author of An Underground Education, exposes the booming sado-masochistic subculture in Victorian England complete with flagellant brothels that arose as a result of the prevalence of corporal punishment in schools and by caretakers. Adults would frequent these flagellant brothels in order to have scenes from their childhood punishments violently reenacted by prostitutes. Often, these adults were unable to become sexually aroused without the aide of fantasies of being paddled by their authoritarian schoolmasters and parents. This conditioning of love, power and sex occurs when a caretaker, the source of love and power in a childs life, hits a child, inflicting pain, stimulating the sciatic nerve. The child comes to associate pain with being loved and with sexual arousal. Children who have been physically punished or abused have high rates of violence and crime later on in life. The ...
