Why, oh why are so many ignoramuses convinced that non-vanilla sex is a recent invention? And why are they so certain in this stupid belief that they want to proclaim their status as dullards to the entire internet?
Historical ignoramus claims there were no fetishes in classical Rome. https://t.co/W5gtqbMvaE
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) March 29, 2023
This also implies that every kinky person who came of age before the advent of internet porn is lying. My first recollection of “funny feelings” (as I thought of them) goes back to 1970, but this soi-disant Sage of Sexuality claims they derive from kinky porn I’ve never seen. And that is, BTB, not an exaggeration; I became tired of, and uninterested in, porn several years before I had an internet connection. The only kinky porn I’ve ever seen was a German “wet sex” magazine my first husband bought in Bavaria sometime in the mid-’80s. And yet, despite my dislike of porn, I do not think it should be banned. I also dislike drag shows, but I don’t think they should be banned either. Funny how true principles and valid ethics don’t depend on the gut-level preferences of any one person.
But I digress. The core of this is, of course, sexual shame; people (especially, though by no means exclusively, those reared in sexually-repressive religions) cannot admit to any sexual feelings outside of straight vanilla monogamy, so when they experience such feelings it’s both convenient and comforting to blame them on porn, “sex addiction“, alien abduction, demonic possession, hypnosis, or any other thing outside the darker recesses of their own brains.
