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[–]Alienhunter糞大名 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Sounds like good old internet porn addiction to me.

[–]JerzyZulawski 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Paraphilias are much deeper and more hard-wired with that. Someone with one wouldn't even look at porn because they would have no interest in sex. They'd look for pictures relating to their kink instead (pictures which may not even be obviously sexual let alone pornographic... e.g. pictures of feet, shoes, clowns, people getting muddy, object destruction, whatever).

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

What causes them? Are they ingrained at birth or not? Developed later? Does the unlimited access to them on the internet have any effect on people?

[–]JerzyZulawski 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's not known, but early experiences and surroundings play a big role, and that includes the media environment and internet access, as you suggest. They're not ingrained at birth but develop in early childhood. Taboos in different countries play a role - i.e. Japan has a far higher rate of men with fart fetishes than Western countries do. Zoophiles are much more likely to have grown up on a farm or at least in a farming community. Men with amputee fetishes often report knowing or meeting an amputee when they were kids. The fetishistic male brain has a tendency to sexually imprint onto things. And full-fledged AGPs often have an absent mother (their mom left or died when they were a kid, or was unloving/emotionally absent, or they weren't otherwise close to their mother).

One theory is that these kinds of hard-wired fetishes have their roots in childhood psychosexual fears, which is why so many of them are of things that are frightening (uniforms, pain, bondage, subjugation, plaster casts, missing limbs, balloons popping, giants, clowns, medical procedures, asphyxiation) or gross (urine, farting, mud, vomit etc.). Kinks may be a psychosexual defense mechanism whereby the developing brain sexualizes a stimulus that it finds too overwhelming to process in order to render it safe. A sexualised trauma response. Another model for understanding fetishes is as a sort of sexual synesthesia, where instead of sounds being perceived as colors or tastes as shapes, other types of interaction stand in for intercourse, and other body parts or objects become the primary erotic focus in place of the genitalia. This concept of erotic target location errors explains why some fetishes are more common than others, and has some speculative biological grounding in the case of the foot fetish: the genitalia and feet are located next to each other in our brains’ cortical homunculus of sensory input, so this common kink at least may simply be a matter of overlapping wires.

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I am like this but I had a completely normal upbringing with no trauma.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Also some people seem to be more at risk of developing paraphilias, most people who have them have more than one and there tends to be a family history.

I wonder if there is a like with personality disorders because many have narcissistic personality disorder.

Personality disorders also tend to stem from childhood trauma.

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I was like that from the very beginning. My whole brain is very messed up, I think that's why. I also have issues with gender dysphoria, my developmental hormones were probably out of whack.

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, I do that. The pictures are usually pretty obvious though, no one is interested in those things besides people who have a fetish for it.