This is how they exorcise the demons of the job, and it's an affirmation that they're alive and together... they both want and need it, need each other.

I think you've articulated so well what it was I *did* like about Monopoly

I'm totally assured of their togetherness, equality and passion, and they're so in tune with one another, it's emotionally satisfying.

I think the pain/aggression bit of it does disturb me in the sense that I can't understand how anyone would get a thrill out of humiliation, but despite that, I do agree with you in that by the end of their encounter they *are* equal and very much in tune with each other and that's what I love about *them* and what they have.