Overall, great essay! Especially interesting how you tie Chosen back in to Death is Your Gift -- I hadn't thought of that.

But I have to say -- you can be evil and still vanilla in bed, and you can like to play humiliation and degradation with a willing partner and still be good. I don't think Spike is a good person for going down on his programmed toy, and I don't think he'd be a bad one for putting her in chains. Especially speaking as a woman who likes the second and doesn't care for the first above half.