![]() ![]() I pulled from fetish lists across the internet - from humansexmap and a few others I can’t re-find the links to. I can figure out how to categorize or whittle down later, let’s just see what we’re working with. Somewhere beneath the earth’s crust, Satan laughed.įirst, let’s get a list of fetishes - all of them. I was like, this’ll take me a week or two. So in order to do this, I need to write down all of the hypotheses-testing-questions I have that I think might correlate with an interesting thing in fetish-land (like, how clean was your childhood home? Was your father absent when you were growing up? What’s your gender ?), and then all the stuff in fetish land ( are you into feet? bestiality? choking people? ). So, for efficiency, I should include all the questions I want in one survey, and then just cross check all the stuff I’m curious about, with each other.Ĭool. What if abuse actually correlates with a whole set of fetishes, not just BDSM? I should ask about other fetishes too! But if I did a bunch of little surveys, I’d have to include all the stuff I’m testing each time - like ask people their gender and are you into BDSM? And then the next survey, I’d ask what’s your gender and are you into feet? This is inefficient, and duplicates a lot of time answering questions. But if I’m already getting people to take a survey, I might as well ask them questions about some more kinks. So easy - I run a bunch of questions asking about BDSM and childhood abuse. I have some questions like, did people who are interested in BDSM get abused more in childhood? (Other research seems to suggest yes, but I wanted to replicate, and know details - what kinds of BDSM? What kind of abuse? Does the effect hold across gender? etc.) I received funding to research fetishes, so I was like cool, let’s run a study to find out stuff I’m curious about. ![]() My curiosity is anything and everything that turns people on, whether obligate or not, vanilla or taboo.) Summary I am not trying to make any particular point, I’m not attached to the language, I just don’t really care about the official distinction between those terms for my current research purposes. What I actually mean is something like a broad “sexual interest”, which encompasses very basic stuff like “I like having penis-in-vagina sex” and also things people consider damaging and pathological, like pedophilia. (General note: I use ‘kink’ and ‘fetish’ interchangeably. If you haven’t taken the survey yet, please do it before reading this article, so that your answers aren’t influenced by my description of the process! I plan to refer to this as part of my methodology when I start publishing results. It’s meant to be easily accessible/understandable to people with little familiarity with research, to explain my reasoning for my decisions, and to outline the limitations. This is a very detailed, very simple step-by-step walkthrough of my process for creating my currently-running fetish survey. ![]()
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