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. !!!!!!!
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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
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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.
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There is a certain twitter mentality I’m experiencing a lot lately where in absence of sufficiently granular information about your viewpoint people construct a straw man and attack rather than assume you’re being playful or speculative or vague
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