You may not have ever asked yourself that question, but the folks over at one of my favorite sites,
Erotica Readers and Writers Association, are thoughtfully weighing in on it (and I'd say they're splitting pretty evenly). Take this post from Roxy:

"Consider D/s play ultimately, it is or is supposed to be consensual. Perhaps that is what God/Jesus (I view them as one, as a Christian) is doing here. In some ways, we are invited (not forced) into a relationship with him in which we are the submissives, and are to be obedient. But of course, there is that little matter of the crucifixion. To allow oneself to be crucified does not strike me as at all the action of a dominant. "Whatever your viewpoint on this issue, I suggest you pay this site (ERWA for short) a visit just to look around. It began as an erotica site for women in the wee days of the web's infancy, but it has evolved into one of the most provocative communities on the Net. You can swap your favorite sexy lyrics with other reader in the
Music section, you can get writers tips and calls for submissions if the
Author section, or you can just weigh in on subjects as diverse as "what to do when pubic hair gets stuck in your teeth" and whether "girls with glasses are hot" (um, yeah!) in the
Erotic Mind section. And that's just the half of it. Behind the site is one of the hardest working women in the biz, Adrienne, and she'd love to hear what you think of her site.