What is causing the rise of degenerate fetishes?

[KingCoomer]

Inflation, vore, farts, its all more common than it was. Why is this?

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

Pornhub

 

[Breadbassket]

The internet has lead to more people being exposed to more niche fetishes I think (plus easy access to pornography). On top of this I cannot confirm this but it seems that in the past decade or so a lot of social stigma related to keeping all of the more disgusting stuff hidden has kind of fallen away.

 

[Uncle Buck]

People are gross.

 

[Nikes_JustDoIt]

Anime and Japanese culture.

 

[AbyssStarer]

"It's not hurting anyone" is a popular defense and most don't think of underlying consequences to being a degenerate.

 

[Wuornos]

The internet, the media and the left-wing.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

The internet has lead to more people being exposed to more niche fetishes I think (plus easy access to pornography). On top of this I cannot confirm this but it seems that in the past decade or so a lot of social stigma related to keeping all of the more disgusting stuff hidden has kind of fallen away.

With the constant revelations over the years that porn is a thing that people view, Twitter allowing it(drawn or otherwise) and showing that people have Liked it, partaking in viewership now being a fetish of its own, and just the general "Highs get lower" adjacency to addiction, social stigma has definitely faded.

 

[Idiotron]

The internet, obviously.
Back in the day, you had to buy creepy magazines at shady stores, then order other magazines from those magazines, just to get weird fetish porn that was a fraction of what you can get now online for free in 5 seconds.
The shit kids can easily access today that's "average" on the current year scale was considered hardcore porn in the 90's.
Our primitive brains are too weak to handle all that porn.

 

[Ultrapenguin]

1: They can find each other more easily.

2: Resignation. People have become increasingly insecure and isolated, so they're less willing to collectively put their foot down.

3: Aimlessness. People who have no reason to get up in the morning have way more time to jerk off and way more neurotic energy, and the world population has more than tripled in the last 70 years, so there's a lot more purposeless people.

That applies to stuff like the skyrocketing levels of substance abuse and obesity as well.
When people don't have access to a healthy and rewarding outlet for their energies, they turn to unhealthy ones or they go insane.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

The internet has lead to more people being exposed to more niche fetishes I think (plus easy access to pornography). On top of this I cannot confirm this but it seems that in the past decade or so a lot of social stigma related to keeping all of the more disgusting stuff hidden has kind of fallen away.

Degenerates being able to easily find other degenerates online to form communities makes them think they're more "normal" and brazen.

 

[FamicomGorby]

Basically all of those have existed for decades, ya can find old timey porn mags that cover just about anything. But that was the thing, back then non-mainstream fetishes were pretty much limited to small time publications or maybe like one "article" in a larger publication, so people weren't exposed to them as much. Now with internet ya can see literally any porn situation your mind can imagine at any time.

 

[Sperghetti]

The internet has lead to more people being exposed to more niche fetishes I think (plus easy access to pornography). On top of this I cannot confirm this but it seems that in the past decade or so a lot of social stigma related to keeping all of the more disgusting stuff hidden has kind of fallen away.

I personally believe there are two kinds of fetishists: The "true" fetishists who are legitimately aroused by a very specific thing or act, and the people who are more attracted to the idea of sexual deviance or extremity in itself. For example, the first kind involves people who just get a rise out of the idea of somebody puffing up like a balloon even if it's presented in a completely nonsexual context, while the second gets a rise out of it because they know it's a niche fetish and other people get off to it.

I think what both the exposure to niche fetishes and the eroding of social stigma has done is push that second group into weirder territory because their sexuality often has this element of competition about it: Getting into stuff like BDSM and leather isn't naughty enough anymore, so now they have to move on to shitting dicknipples to prove that they're really kinky.

Strangely, it also seems to lead to this thing where people claim fetishes because of memes. Like people will start to joke about some niche fetish that they find silly (i.e., traps) and then several years later, there's a boom in people unironically claiming to get off on it.

 

[Bloitzhole]

I don't think we see an overall increase in fetishes per, say 100.000 people - but there's more people, there's more connectedness, less stigma, less shame and all of those things lead to more visibility.

There is also an argument to be made that exposure to a lot of media in early childhood (something that was simply not possible 60 years ago) could potentially trigger more paraphilias (fancy term for fetishes) to develop. A lot of people will trace their "lightbulb moment" when it comes to fetishes to a fixation on some TV show or film moment - wires get crossed and something say, horrifying or otherwise not easily digested, instead develops into an erotic fixation.
A non-media example would be the fear of a balloon popping. This early childhood fear associated with the sounds of pressure being exerted on an inflated balloon can, in adulthood, for some turn into a fetish - as odd as that sounds.

I haven't found a lot of conclusive literature when it comes to what I'd call "escalation" - the idea that as people consume more unusual porn, their appetites become more and more extreme. It's something that gets brought up every now and again, but I don't know if there's any real data support for it (if someone happens to have a decent article / dataset, I'd love to see it).

 

[Stop]

Jews

 

[SandyCat]

The internet has lead to more people being exposed to more niche fetishes I think

This. Before I used the internet I was mostly normal, now look at me. I'm even posting on kiwifarms.

I'm too far gone at this point. Go outside while you all still can

 

[Lone MacReady]

Pr0n can now be crowdfunded easily. The creator of the art doesn't even have to like it, he'll just do it for the shekels. Now imagine an internet of perverted funders, all with platforms to post on and spare cash, with access to unlimited poor artists looking for donations in return for commissions. Shit was bound to get extra degenerated extra fast. That's not even getting into the malicious implications of modern porn, specifically with pornhub-tier psyop algos shoving certain content in your face regardless of what you search.

 

[Just A Fat Round Bird]

I think it might be that its just more easily observed nowdays.

 

[ulsterscotsman]

Porn and the Internet.
Seriously we need to bring stigma and shame back into fashion, people who display their perversions and fetishes in public should be physically beaten in the streets.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

It's really not that common. Weirdos just seem more common because the internet lets them find like minded people. Ask a random person in real life about fetishes and they won't even know what a fetish is.