Being around big scary predators is something we're pretty well hardwired to be afraid of So people drawn to this as their hobby have had some crucial switch flipped in their head to turn "fear" into "excitement", and that manifests in other wayshttps://twitter.com/JamesRenner/status/1244637295136976903 …
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Something similar in non consent fantasies too.
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Yeah the latent toxoplasmosis theories about humans are kind of fringey but it makes sense what they say about it being gendered - men get more violent and confrontational, women engage in more sexually risky behavior
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There's a famous neuroscience-case-study patient ("S.M.") with congenital amygdala damage who went on a trip with the researchers to an exotic pet store and was FASCINATED with the snakes/spiders, wanting to pick them up, etc.
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The brain marks things as "special" or salient that have to do with deep-seated evolutionary fears, so the "normal" fear response often gets redirected into curiosity, fascination, arousal. It's a cliche that a lot of common fetishes spring up around things that scare people.
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