To speak without naming names a little, the psychological field remains near and dear to my heart and to see it reduced to the theoretical work of a single man who, if you have only ever looked at him through the lens of your own kinks and thus were not aware is somewhat of an enemy of the entire psychological field, hurts. That one man introduced ideas that are almost entirely used to teach budding mind-curious individuals the Do's and Don'ts of how psychological research is done. Empirical evidence is SCARCE and difficult but it is necessary. He had almost none of that. His 'research' was the scientific equivalent of Some Shit He Pulled From His Ass And Said Eureka! About. Of course it had interesting fundamentals that other researchers took and refined (Carl Jung, notably) but that does not mean he should be heralded as the face of the entire field. But who am I kidding? Nobody who talks about that man is interested in psychology, because if they truly had any interest in his ideas or the ideas of anyone else in the field, they would have had to suffer through so many hours of research pertaining to him specifically that just his name alone would make them feel sick. All I am saying is, if you are going to use psychological figures in your kinkposts, shake it up a little. Throw some operant conditioning in there. Get crazy and try to find a way to relate Festinger's cognitive dissonance to your #freaky. There is an angle there somewhere.
let's talk about how people just say "evolutionary psychology" when they want to validate whatever weird world view they have. This includes normalizing your kink.
can confirm that conditioning and dissonance are a hell of a thing in the respite block ;) #suggestivwe
oh wow i hate that im agreeing with cr*nus here