When you think about it, what was the motivation for kinks in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness?
Dunno, but I think that “virile, manly strangers impregnating your spouse” was only added in as a hilarious curveball.
(Terrible ass-pull theory: it’s good to spread your genes far and wide, and therefore good to be attracted to a range of weird stuff?)
I suspect that it’s a consequence of complex intelligence that isn’t strongly enough selected against for it to evolve out of the human population.
It also makes me wonder what kinks existed in ancient times that have now almost completely disappeared because we’ve lost all the requisite social gears to connect the dots…(seamstress fetish in ancient greece?? the seamstress=sex workers connection was so strong that archeologists will pinpoint women on pots who are spinning as sex workers, that’s Cohen (2015). Where are the seamstress fetishists now? In a three-person group on dA somewhere whose moderator abandoned it in 2013?)
Well, if you want an example of a really bizarre kink that somehow became normative among the entire population of one of the world’s greatest civilizations for a time (though it was always somewhat controversial, as I understand it), there’s foot-binding.
Uniform fetishes are evergreen, but uniforms changed, so there probably aren’t many tricorn hat kinksters around
To be fair, a parsimonious alternate explanation for sex workers being depicted as seamstresses is that a lot of brothels doubled as places where clothing was manufactured so the women would have something to do between customers.
Victorians had a really common fetish for women slaughtering ducks iirc; won’t see much of that around these days
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