I feel like people theorising the link between kinks and trauma often miss the point. You don't need complex theories to explain why someone is into a particular kink - it's just fun. What you need to explain is why people are stuck in a particular range of fun things.
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Sure, exploring that can be interesting and fun (especially if the exploration gets ahem empirical), but I think that's a bit of a different thing than the "Kinks point to underlying trauma" meme that seems to come up a lot. Also often the explanations will be a bit unsatisfying.
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I think it depends on what "based" means, honestly. Like there's so much trauma in the water that everything we do is influenced by it to some degree. Certainly kinks interact with underlying trauma, but I don't think the trauma is required to have the kink.
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But I think for most reasonable interpretations of the question the answer is something like "sometimes, yeah", I just don't think it should/needs to be the default explanation.
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