It's very interesting, and I think shows much about me LOL, that the first thing I thought of here was a D/s relationship. Now that is different in that there is, shall we say, consent for there to be non-consent, but the example stands as there are people who have shown that yes erections (and female arousal) can be trained (much like the Pavlov example given). As ssandra pointed out, it very likely did not start out at such an extreme. And, if he was truly afraid of leaving and of further violence, I would bet that after the first time she followed through on her threat of more pain, he quickly worked to train himself so as to avoid it. We can overcome many things when we are worried for survival.
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