How do sexual kinks/fetishes develop?
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I don’t think we know for sure and there are a lot of theories. Coming from a biological perspective, I know one of the theories has to do with our brain’s “sensation mapping.” A part of our brain is responsible for sensing touch stimulus, and it’s essentially mapped out to different parts of the body. For example one part senses when your foot is touched (“stimulated”) and another part senses when your genitals are touched/stimulated. A theory for things like foot fetishes specifically is that these two parts of the brain are very closely linked in some people, so feet end up being tied up with the pleasure center. Just a theory, and if it is true it really only explains a handful of fetishes. It doesn’t explain more subjective/psychological kinds like degradation, etc.
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