Aren't these similar to the trauma theories, though? E.g. "if you generally feel like you can't take care of yourself, then a submissive fantasy is fun because that being someone else's responsibility lets you more fully immerse yourself in an experience without worrying".
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I do think that there is definitely some of that involved, though I'd note that "things that could be fun except for when you have a reason to dislike them except when trauma overrides that dislike" starts sounding like a complicated-ish causal trauma theory to me. :-)
Well my claim wasn't that trauma isn't involved, or that sex isn't complicated, it was that the baseline reason that people are into things is that they are fun and that that part doesn't generally require trauma to explain.
