mike's a masochist

I saw this movie 4 years ago when I was 14 and I didn't understand it very well, I just found it really exciting for shallow reasons and since then I've seen it about 10 more times when it's occasionally come on cable and as I've become a more contemplative person I've given this movie a lot of thought in pulling out a lot of subtleties most people won't notice. This is one of them.
It seems that in a lot of cases women can exhibit hybristophilia, that omnipresent condition in where, as the visionary Bill Hicks said, "chicks dig jerks." Masochism is one of those paraphilia's in our pantheon of wonderful sexual eccentricities that distinguishes us from our simpler animal brethren as well because it gives it's keeper an inclination toward being dominated or abused/humiliated to some degree. I would wager Mike Swale could very well be a masochist and a hybristophiliac. Accordingly if there's a theme of role-reversal in that the woman becomes the predatory sexual user and the man becomes the used, Mike obviously likes a woman who's the typical stereotype of a "castrating bitch."
I wouldn't put it beyond reason that the penultimate last seduction where she goads him into that last bout of sex wasn't something he could resist. From what I gather (and yes this is not something people should ponder when there's starving children and wars-for-oil among other travesties occuring, so I feel reprehensible for this sort of over-thinking movies I like) he is about to call the police when Bridget really begins asserting herself. Now how taken aback should he be that she knows about Trish? It seemed to directly sidetrack his attention and focus it completely on her and the issue at hand when a man has just been murdered and his own future is currently in danger. That seems very self-indulgent, suspiciously so.
This could either be chalked up to him just being a dumbass without much perspective, or this is how he wanted. Most males can't refuse sex even if it's a case of overwhelming moral rancor if said copulation goes through. Mike also isn't as violent as he could be if he was actually trying to shut Bridget up. He's the one backing up when she's gliding toward him with her pants around her ankles (does anyone find symbolic significance in the fact that she's wearing boxer-briefs instead of more conventional female underwear?) and meekly telling her to stop it. This would be a masochists dream becuase this is pretty much the complete fufillment of a sex-fantasy since this woman is going to get away with it, become rich, live a beautiful and lavish life, be pitied for the "trauma" she accrued; his family will disown him for his brutality, he will go to prison for life as a sodomite-rapist and murderer (who in that perplexing world of prison morality is the embodiment of what should be tortured and abused), the entire small town he lives in will know his name and he'll go down as an infamous pariah, it'll obviously become known that he married Trish as well, and he will suffer a fate worse than death because he did none of this. Did Mike know any of this would happen? Was he thinking of it?
When Bridget was finally bent over on the desk after giving Mike a whirlwind bombard of creul taunts Mike is already pressed up against her telling her to shut her mouth before he announces he plans to rape her as though he's waiting for the command. He had to have seen her dialing the phone too, it makes no sense that he wouldn't. If he was planning on calling the cops on Bridget he wouldn't have fallen for this, it doesn't stand to reason, no matter how horny he was. He had to have been beyond normally excited because even with Trish's mention, a dead man one has recently touched and talked to and a sociopathic sex-goddess trying to get you to take the fall so that you can go to prison and suffer and she can become a multi-millionaire would to a generally orthodox male still get through to what's left of his brain that hasn't temporarily switched places with his penis and do something else, which is not have sex with Bridget and call the cops. Mike either loved Bridget or his physical obsession with her was so intense and masochistic that he could never refuse to not have sex with her even if it meant his doom. If he knew what he was in for afterwards and realized half-way through his last blissful experience on earth he was screwed, he could have easily shot Bridget in the head, but he just plays right into what she wants. He felt compelled to satisfy her even though it wasn't in his interest. This was by all appearances a lucid and well-developed male from a stable background who came across as very well-rounded, sensitive and capable outside of what is a sociologically (and unfortunate) ingrained homophobia. Mike pretty much would embody the ideal man for an ideal woman. It's only his folly that his good qualities are exploited by Bridget, who is supernaturally and perplexingly bizarre in that I can't even tell if she's really a psychopath or just a really self-centered Objectivist. Either way once recieving that letter from Trish if he decided he didn't love Bridget beforehand and didn't want to be with her, he could have easily moved out to L.A to be a porn-star (being a well-hung and good-looking etc.) or joined the army for that adventure he wanted and found happiness far away from all of these mistakes and started anew. He was more than capable of this, and was mature enough to know it. He had limitless prospects and he chooses Bridget, something he can see to be volatile. His focus was narrowed by hypothetical masochism and hybristophilia, he had to do Bridgets will or he'd feel a void in himself for the rest of his life. If Bridget hadn't forged the letter from Trish he would have done it anyway eventually, becuase if he didn't leave town and Bridget when the Trish factor became pressing, what the hell makes you think he would have left if it hadn't been pressing? That last bit of frantic sex between the two was exactly what Mike wanted. I think if presented with the option to do it all over again he wouldn't have, because I'm sure the ramifications are too sobering in the aftermath, but when living in the moment a masochist will live from orgasm to orgasm practically, not considering the aftermath, and he certainly did this.