Yeah. And I feel like I'm being made fun of when people suddenly start posting shit about what they think petplay is like and make a meme out of it. I've felt this way about other kinks I was into and even kinks I wasn't into but my friends were into becoming the memestock of the internet for whatever brief window they occupied the collective brainspace.
Like I am glad to see the breeding stuff go, I've been extremely exhausted by nobody tagging it and bringing it up randomly like it's a neutral thing, but I'm not gonna enjoy them bringing up petplay like it's a neutral thing because even then I know it's a trap. Most people talking about kink are just performing socially, and if you're "too" into (ie. at all genuinely into) whatever the meme du jour is, you become a meme right alongside it.
At worst it becomes the same way foot fetish is ie. literally the only time it's brought up even on supposedly "progressive", "sex positive" servers, it's as a punchline. I've stopped interacting with so many people over their inability to see beyond the tip of their nose, and what with how intensely puritanical the internet is atm anyway, I'm not gonna enjoy the puritans going down the list of yet another kink that is allowed to exist as long as it's always, always the punchline.
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Date: 5/9/23 05:54 (UTC)Yeah. And I feel like I'm being made fun of when people suddenly start posting shit about what they think petplay is like and make a meme out of it. I've felt this way about other kinks I was into and even kinks I wasn't into but my friends were into becoming the memestock of the internet for whatever brief window they occupied the collective brainspace.
Like I am glad to see the breeding stuff go, I've been extremely exhausted by nobody tagging it and bringing it up randomly like it's a neutral thing, but I'm not gonna enjoy them bringing up petplay like it's a neutral thing because even then I know it's a trap. Most people talking about kink are just performing socially, and if you're "too" into (ie. at all genuinely into) whatever the meme du jour is, you become a meme right alongside it.
At worst it becomes the same way foot fetish is ie. literally the only time it's brought up even on supposedly "progressive", "sex positive" servers, it's as a punchline. I've stopped interacting with so many people over their inability to see beyond the tip of their nose, and what with how intensely puritanical the internet is atm anyway, I'm not gonna enjoy the puritans going down the list of yet another kink that is allowed to exist as long as it's always, always the punchline.