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i think i'm missing whatever disgust/horror thing people seem to have around sex. bizarre fetishes don't make me feel freaked out, just curious. i don't have any 'depraved' or 'damaging' frame around any sexual arousal, there is no inherently bad arousal in my book.

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While I agree that much in US culture around sex is overwrought, it seems clear enough that having zero disgust etc. reaction to some things is disordered, if for no other reason than the potential for STDs, physical or psychological trauma, etc.

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I only got a non-sex example, but it should apply. A German survival expert, Rüdiger Nehberg, described disgust as either 'Useful' or 'Trained' Useful keeps you from eating rotten food and sickness. Trained prevents you from eating worms in a survival situation.

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yeah I also have low disgust in most other areas and it seems fine? like I've eaten food out of dumpsters or off of other ppls table at restaurants after rhey left or food that's been out for many days. i just check if it smells good. never gotten sick

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or I did a lot of hygeine experimentation, stopped washing my hair for four years, showered once a month (dry brushing in between and still spot washing genitals) and that was also fine, no issues

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The "check if it smells good" is you invoking the useful disgust Nehberg described. At the time, he was on Tv a lot. In some edutainment shorts kids program, he presented some basic survival skills, where he'd (and he alone) eat earthworms and describe the useful/trained disgust.

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Food from dumpsters as in bags of stale bread that are in a dumster & not really touching anything or more like bits of loose meat smeared in the corner soaking in trash juice? Can you provide an example? Thanks. (I enjoy your content-you’re very intelligent, but in a unique way)