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.
Let’s not forget “social contagion” — the equating of “new” ideas and/or behaviors with infectious disease. But, then again, anti-sex pearl-clutchers love to use emotionally charged terms like “epidemic” and “sickness” to condemn what they don’t like and refuse to understand.
Social contagion is not imaginary, or a prudish interpretation of novelty; I suggest you read up on the causes of incidents like the Salem witch trials. It’s especially common in adolescent girls, even to the point of spawning imaginary illnesses. If some people choose to misuse the theory to promote their irrational beliefs, that no more invalidates it than the misuse of evolutionary theory to support both communism AND its opposite “social Darwinism” invalidates evolutionary theory.
If only Tim Pool had you on his show instead of parroting pro-police, anti-sex(-work) propaganda. Considering Cook County’s history, he should know better.
The world is full of morons, which on its own would be bad enough, but that some of them manage to float to the top and spread their moronic ideas is truly damaging and lamentable. And yes, their goal is to propagate their own sexual shame and foist it on others who might be gullible or damaged enough to embrace it.
I imagine that anyone who thinks there were no kinky people doing kinky things in Ancient Rome are unfamiliar with Catullus’s famous naughty poem which begins with the words, “Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo.” Which translates to, “I will sodomize and face fuck you.” Sounds pretty kinky to me and not different from some contemporary practices.
My own kinkiness emerged when I was 4 1/2, in the summer before kindergarten. The year was 1954, when dinosaurs still roamed the earth, and the Internet wasn’t even yet a glimmer in its deviser’s eyes. I didn’t know that porn, of any ilk, existed, it being years before I discovered my father’s modest stash. My urges were completely self-spawned, albeit perhaps stirred by some of my young peers, both girls and boys, who also I am sure had no idea what porn was.