More women are interested sexual submission (and related powerplay kink stuff) than men are interested in sexual dominance. Why? Does this hold across cultures and time? Is this related to the fact that throughout history, significantly fewer men reproduced than women?
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For some reason, the answer seems to be "because more men are switches". I don't know why, but if you add dom+both for men in this graph it exceeds sub+both for women.
ARMED WITH THIS ONE GRAPH I BRING YOU DEFINITIVE UNQUESTIONABLE KNOWLEDGE /s
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Oooh I haven't seen this before. This is interesting. This does also line up with my findings that men are more generally interested in everything.
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1. Kinks are psychologically used to recontextualize or cope with dispreferable states into contexts of pleasure and consent
2. Men are secure in dominance
3. Women may convert insecurity re: power into submission play
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Sounds like inertia, to me.
Dominance is necessarily expressed with proactive, assertive behaviors. Submissiveness can be easily expressed with reactive behaviors (ideally it’s also proactive, but it doesn’t *have to be*).
In other words, it’s easier to not act than to act.
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Might simply be the current cultural zeitgeist, where standard male sexuality is suppressed and judged to be deviant
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