It’s official! Kinky sex is normal! And so are formerly “weird” fetishes. According to a new study from the University of Toronto, enjoying BDSM is enjoyable for a lot of people, formerly judged for being kinky perverts. (Does anyone even use the word pervert anymore?) I’ll answer that myself in 3 words: Jared from Subway.
The study surveyed 1,040 people and was called “The prevalence of paraphilic interests and behaviors in the general population: a provincial survey.”
A quick search of the world “paraphilia” has an interesting definition, as it is oven misunderstood; “a condition characterized by abnormal sexual desires, typically involving extreme or dangerous activities.” Even Wikipedia defines it as “the experience of intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, situations, or individuals, also known as sexual perversion and sexual deviation.”
“Paraphilic sexual interests are defined as unusual or anomalous, but their actual occurrence in nonclinical samples is still unknown,” says the study. “Nearly half of the men and women in the 1,040 person sample expressed interest in at least one paraphilic category, and approximately one-third had had experience with such a practice at least once. Voyeurism, fetishism, and masochism interested both male and female respondents at levels above what is usually considered to be statistically unusual (15.9%).” One odd result of the survey was a number of men who said they enjoyed “frotterurism,” which is a dude rubbing his boner against a stranger, like in a crowded place. (That I would call “creepy” as there is no consent, unlike with consensual BDSM.)
Interestingly, says the study “levels of interest in fetishism and masochism were not significantly different for men and women. Masochism was significantly linked with higher satisfaction with one’s own sexual life. As expected, the online mode generated more acknowledgment of paraphilic interest than the telephone mode. These results call into question the current definition of normal (normophilic) versus anomalous (paraphilic) sexual behaviors.”
It’s official! Kinky sex is normal! And so are formerly “weird” fetishes. According to a new study from the University of Toronto, enjoying BDSM is enjoyable for a lot of people, formerly judged for being kinky perverts. (Does anyone even use the word pervert anymore?) I’ll answer that myself in 3 words: Jared from Subway.
The study surveyed 1,040 people and was called “The prevalence of paraphilic interests and behaviors in the general population: a provincial survey.”
A quick search of the world “paraphilia” has an interesting definition, as it is oven misunderstood; “a condition characterized by abnormal sexual desires, typically involving extreme or dangerous activities.” Even Wikipedia defines it as “the experience of intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, situations, or individuals, also known as sexual perversion and sexual deviation.”
One odd result of the survey was a number of men who said they enjoyed “frotterurism,” which is a dude rubbing his boner against a stranger, like in a crowded place. (That I would call “creepy” as there is no consent, unlike with consensual BDSM.)
Interestingly, says the study “levels of interest in fetishism and masochism were not significantly different for men and women. Masochism was significantly linked with higher satisfaction with one’s own sexual life. As expected, the online mode generated more acknowledgment of paraphilic interest than the telephone mode. These results call into question the current definition of normal (normophilic) versus anomalous (paraphilic) sexual behaviors.”
