This isn't about beating someone into submition. It is about pain, and pleasure. And no it is not anmalistic. Animals don't do to one an other what people do. When a animal dose it it is for food or maiting (breeding).And you think people are ruff. But when people are hard or what we do it is not for maiting (breeding), it isfor sex.
I said those are my current feelings about it, and I'm in the process of rewiring my brain to conform to the Life as opposed to the Vanilla world. Currently, the phrase your kink isn't my kink, but your kink is okay would apply.

but a dom that is solely into causing pain because somebody else wants him to isn't really a dom, can't function in that role.
The dom wouldn't be a sadist by any stretch of the imagination. But I will stand and argue that just because one isn't into giving pain doesn't mean they're any less dom. See above.

Respectully submitted,
Mark