ABSTRACT

Empirical research on the origins of kinky erotic desires (e.g., sadomasochism, bondage, domination/submission, roleplaying, sexual fetishism, etc.) has been limited and rarely rooted in the narratives of kinky people themselves. Among a sample of 260 self-identified kinky users of a kink-oriented social networking website living in 21 countries, we examined self-reported narratives of the origins of kink desires. An inductive coding process by four independent coders yielded 20 categories of responses, organized into five broad discourses about the origins of kinky desires: identity (e.g., personality, personal taste, and role exploration; 72.7% of responses), nurture (e.g., both traumatic and non-traumatic life experiences; 38.1% of responses), negation (e.g., disavowing or doubting a particular idea about the origins of their kink interests; 24.6% of responses), nature (e.g., biology and genetics; 22.7% of responses), and uncertainty (e.g., not being able to identify an origin of kinky desires; 10.4% of responses). Fewer than 19% of participants mentioned any kind of trauma in their responses. We discuss implications for scientific understandings of kinky sexual desire within the umbrella of sexual diversity.

摘要

对变态色情欲望（例如，施虐受虐、束缚、支配/服从、角色扮演、性恋物癖等）的起源的实证研究是有限的，并且很少植根于变态者本身的叙述。在生活在 21 个国家/地区的 260 名自我识别的 kinky 用户的样本中，我们检查了自我报告的关于 kink 欲望起源的叙述。由四位独立编码员进行的归纳编码过程产生了 20 类反应，并被组织成五个关于变态欲望起源的广泛论述：身份（例如，个性、个人品味和角色探索；72.7% 的反应）、培养（例如，两者兼有）创伤性和非创伤性生活经历；38.1% 的回答），否定（例如，否认或怀疑关于他们的扭结兴趣起源的特定想法；24.6% 的回答）、自然（例如，生物学和遗传学；22.7% 的回答）和不确定性（例如，无法确定淫欲；10.4% 的回应）。不到 19% 的参与者在他们的回答中提到了任何类型的创伤。我们在性多样性的保护伞下讨论对古怪性欲的科学理解的意义。