I did *not* expect an effect this large, I'm really surprised. 40% of ppl with abusive childhoods are into bdsm, whereas 25% without abusive childhoods are into bdsm. !!!!!!!
So I think there might be an interesting underlying thing here, where people with weird/abusive childhoods have less normative influences and are more likely to wander into lifestyles pitched as alternative
But there's something else here probably too
yeah there's a lot of potential confounders like that, including ppl into bdsm are more likely to be in cultures that frame childhood experiences as abusive, but the difference is large enough that I think there's a good chance some of it is directly causal.
People on Twitter, who answer polls, and who follow you…that slice may not be a very good representative sample 😂
And the N is only ~435.
BUT, it’s a thread worth pulling on to see what you find!