I've noticed that corporate managers, policemen and other authority figures often seem to have a thing for "the belt", as in: If someone doesn't follow orders, they bring out the proverbial belt to give people a proverbial whipping, and they derive a perverse kind of pleasure from that.
Some women seek such men out. They seem to want a man who sets boundaries for them and shows them who's boss, and if they are with a man who doesn't do that, they don't respect him.