this apparently answers the question of whether your kink genes are inheritable. congratulations for Science!!
I assumed that this was proof my grandmother DOESN’T have a hypnosis kink (not that I had given it much thought).
Because if she did, why the fuck would she drop that on my Facebook?
My reasoning for asking went like this:
“I’ve heard quite a few stories of children who don’t know yet that they’re kinky* playing (or trying to convince people to play with them) unknowingly-erotic games. Therefore, it is possible for some people to have the fascination aspect of a kink without the accompanying sense of propriety, at least as long as they are not made aware of the sexual nature of their fascination. (Just because *I* was always very uncomfortable when my parents sang me lullabyes doesn’t mean that *everyone’s* anti-incest instincts adapt to their sexualities without prompting.)
There is insufficient data to even hazard a guess at how likely someone is to make that joke assuming the absence of a hypnosis kink, but–ignoring propriety, for the reasons given above–it can safely be assumed to be less likely than someone who does have such a kink making that joke.
(Yes, there are so many non-hypno-kinky people out there that a random person (maybe even a blood relative) telling that joke is probably still more likely than not to lack the kink, but I didn’t say it was a strong suspicion.)”
tl;dr The story sounded like stories kinksters tell about their childhoods as evidence they were, in hindsight, kinky, but with your grandmother in the place of the child (and age alone isn’t always enough to make you aware of your kinks).
*These stories are usually told by the children’s present selves, now adults and more self-aware.
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