i do second your description of these lovely, lovely reactions. the prickle of the hairs on the back of my neck and my whole back, the squirming, the hiding, yes; to be honest i thought it's just reflex--i just didn't pinpoint that it was a reflex to humiliation, i connected it with the "bigger" picture, in the sense that when i'm in my mode i kinda tend to detach from my humanity [haeh, i know, it sounds bad], but i feel more like an actual pet, so my reactions tend to be much much more physical and maybe a bit more exaggerated than what i'm feeling *shrug*