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...