like. if you invest in the idea that any engagement with, desire for or interest in sexual fantasies that aren't 100% Pure is inherently monstrous when such desires are in fact common and harmless, you're gonna end up thinking you're fucked up instead of a normal person.
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thinking back, some of the fantasies I had in my very early teens were much wilder than the ones I developed as I got older, precisely *because* I was navigating the transition from childhood to adulthood in a way which tangled those things up as I figured out what belonged where
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as such, it's always tracked for me that some of the wildly kinkiest, darkest, most out-there fic on AO3 reads like it was written by fourteen year olds - because I'd wager that a decent chunk of it is, in fact, written by young teens, doing online what I used to do in my head.
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here's the thing about sexual fantasies: we could try and plumb the cultural, specific, unique psychosexual origins of every single fantasy of every single person in search of The Reason Why We Like Stuff, or we could just accept that, actually, it doesn't have to matter.
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like. it can certainly be personally enlightening - and interesting, even! - to poke at why you enjoy a certain fantasy, but if it's just you in your head or a thing you work out in writing, even if written publicly on a site like AO3? it's not mandatory. just tag it & be free.
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A lot of these churches are lucrative because they keep their congregants under the impression that they need the church because they are one bad day away from the pits of hell. What better way to do that than demonize something common and natural?
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