Poll Time! What's it all about, Buffy? redux

[rebcake]

Perhaps I'm beating a dead horse, but here goes.

I was fascinated by the huge differences in how people perceive the way Buffy and Spike start their "relationship". I'm trying to find the crux of the divergence, and here is one possibility that came to mind:

Poll I give up! (The Buffy Edition)
Yes, yes, we know it was a combination of factors. But which was the primary motivator for

Comments

[shapinglight]

That was trickier than you might think. I do think Buffy's primary motivation was giving in to her own desires, but I don't think those desires were specifically for Spike, or to do with just sex, if you see what I mean. He was a means to an end - the most immediate way to make herself feel again. It helped that she didn't have any real respect for him left so using him to make herself feel better didn't give her the moral qualms doing the same to a human would have

[menomegirl]

I agree.