OK, so there's
something out there--doesn't matter what it is--that's going to happen to you
eventually, even though you don't want it to. This makes you feel
hopeless. You don't like feeling hopeless, so you try to
hasten the arrival of this thing that you don't want to happen to you in order to
eliminate this hopeless feeling. You feel
relieved when it's gone.
Congratulations: you're a
masochist.
Of course, there are also folks who just plain enjoy being tied up and whipped. I'm not sure how to explain them...