Despite the initial 'love bombing' originally employed by many cults to recruit new members, often starved for a sense of belonging and acceptance (and aren't we all ?), eventually psychological abuse ensues: severe criticism, punishments, humiliation etc
The question is: why do recruits put up with it?
Is it that we find something familiar in being abused, perhaps even familial (in the sense that it makes us regress to a previous stage in our lives when we were dependent upon our parents)?
Maybe it has to do with the 'mixing pain and pleasure' principle used in many seduction settings?
wouldn't it be simpler to just continue 'love bombing' cult members after they're in?
Or would that, for some reason pertaining to human psychology, be ineffective?
Is it that we all harbor a deep-rooted sense of guilt that we feel ameliorated when we are abused?
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