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>>57334
Personally I find this to be the major issue. Excuse me for being a pretentious fuck for a moment, but I think there is something inherently more sinister about glorifying an infantile mindset and relationship dynamic, than having a fetish. There's a tendency in contemp culture to judge the sexual, but somehow exalt non sexual but very weird "life styles". Regression as a sexual oddity is one thing, but to integrate regression as an "acceptable" way of life seems outright dangerous and horrifying. If one buys into any sort of cultural vectoriality, it's disturbing. Being a fetishist has led to thinking a lot about these things, and it's an old insight that the obsessed will find his obsession in anything, which exactly is the "obsessive" part. I'm dumb-struck whether it's just some freudian bullshit that determines me to see regressive tendencies in most cultural movements, and be disgusted by it because of some latent or tacit self-hatred based on shame that I'm projecting on to society at large, or it is because these things are present and escalating in the cultural unfolding, and that my sexuality is, if not a direct consequence or reflection of this, then at least enforced by it. What is primary and what is secondary is a good question. Personally I'm convinced it is somewhat of a reflexive phenomenon where sexuality and culture enforce each other. It seems like the sexual part could find grounding in a fundamental and universal phenomenon of the parent child relation, and something gone awry a some point. Spoken differently, it is entirely possible that it has a non-cultural grounding sequence, or a natural grounding sequence. Assuming this to be true, and assuming that the sexualization is not an originally creative aspect, but rather a morphing of something that is already present to some degree psychologically and universally (ddlg being another example within the same category where something becomes apparent, transparent, or externalized in some way), the parent-child relation, then it is natural that this phenomenon is reflected in culture, albeit in an accelerating perverse fashion. The perverse part seemingly negated, or opaque at large, due to the fallacy of assuming that being sexual is a necessary condition for something to be perverse. Or maybe even from a perverse "non-sexual" phenomenon, that is sexual though in a repressed way. Tl:Dr There seems to be a psycho-sociological vector that proportionally correlates intellectual and technological progress with individual regression. Possibly associated with the fact that what is termed progress, which is not necessarily a negative, is essentially and widely understood as an expansion of individual comfort and consumption. The more comfort and stability the less need for individual responsibility, in accordance with general tendencies of fear of responsibility, which are essentially infantile.
Sorry for being an abstract douche. Have a nice day people.