When you think about it, what was the motivation for kinks in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness?
Dunno, but I think that “virile, manly strangers impregnating your spouse” was only added in as a hilarious curveball.
(Terrible ass-pull theory: it’s good to spread your genes far and wide, and therefore good to be attracted to a range of weird stuff?)
My personal favourite ass-pull theory:
Kinks are the beginning of the atrophying of the human sex drive.
Yes, the decoupling of “if pleasurable PIV, then procreation” wasn’t widespread until very recently, but decoupling the other way–“if procreation, then pleasurable PIV” happened a long time ago. Humans are smart, communicative, and capable of enduring short-term discomfort in pursuit of long-term goals. Therefore, the procreative act need not be pleasant, nor need it be intuitive: humans will do it regardless.
My heavily warped sex drive presents no barrier whatsoever to my reproductive success. I learned how to reproduce from other people, and if I chose I could perform these learned actions for the sake of obtaining children, without ever actually enjoying it.
When it no longer matters whether something is broken, it is free to accumulate damage. Kinks are the result of this entropy.
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