I'm not claiming it's a "ruse". But since being humiliated and "forced" (how many times does that word appear, usually capitalized, in his blog?) to do things is his fetish, it doesn't make sense to take him at his word and assume he's being abused. Similarly, when he claims that he's forced to take care of the cats that he's scared of (for instance), that's more related to his desire to be a silly little girl than Al's desire to terrorize him.
Also looking at the blog where he's not in character, he's pretty obviously of normal intelligence, just very, very sick. And his Facebook is startlingly "normal" by the standards of his blog.