It doesn't have to be domination always. But I love the more extreme ones than the normal ones. My favorite lift and carry is torture rack or the backbreaker. I really think it is hot

Not necessarily!
 

I personally would catalog domination as a fetish itself.

My thought on all this is that fetishes and practices have certain intersections, for example, domination has a lot to do with control and power, and physical strength -required in Lift and Carry- is an asset that can definitely impose control over someone else. Lift and carry and domination would be the fetishised practices, and strength the intersection in between.

I have seen scenes where a "mommy" carries a "baby", not in a domineering way, just a loving fetish scene (the domination part came after, but was completely detached from the carry part). ABDL intersects with Lift and carry here.
Also in my experience fetish can group in sort of families, but don't necesarily need them.

So I can imagine some like to feel the power from the person lifting underneath, but not to feel overpowered per se; and some do like the feeling of powerlessness on top of the strength.

Think about it as flavoured ice cream, you can totally combine them as you want, no rules!

Picking someone up and carrying them is whatever the person / persons want it to be. It might be dom or sub, just depends on what both parties want and expect.

I've never seen someone lifting somebody else as dominating. there's plenty of strength involved and they'll depict someone in the clip as dominating for a story or whatever. but i just like watching the lifting and don't over analyze it.

The torture rack is the best. When a lady has you in the position, you are at their mercy. You could probably get down but you risk injury.

Agree 100%. To me that is the ultimate domination lift. My dream is to have a lady hoist me in a torture rack during a session.

It seems to always be power but to be blunt most interactions are about power.

Just personally, I really love it when it is dominating just feeling overpowered and hopeless.

I like it both ways
 

It could be a form of wanting to be dominated, but on the other hand i also like to lift girls. I sometimes like to turn it around. So either i like to be dominated and dominate at the same time, or my passion of lifting has a different reasoning.

Transit
 

I think, in general, involves domination.
If you L/C someone, you have the last word over the next minute of your partner. Just speculating, but in general, women have better attitude when they feel dominated, most girls don?t have any problem if someone else lift them in public. A few may feel embarrassed, most of them will enjoy it for a while, and some will even demand more lifts, they have no problems being dominated in public, For men, in general, works the oposite way. we want dominate. again, generally speaking.....;)