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Looking at these structures dead and detached cannot show what agile, active organs they are in life. Study that and you have the last sexual kink that is still

• ben_w 5y ago
  People describe a lot of very different taboos as “the last that is still frowned on”. I am rather more troubled by the idea of someone “enjoying” these dead examples in that way. But I have the same trouble with leather fetishism for exactly the same reasons, and most do not share my negative reaction to the latter. I wonder how that works, and why? Stream of consciousness here, but specifically about leather: could it be that the uncanny valley effect happens when the visual processing in our brains detect most of the signals to positively recognise an object, but missing a certain number of core features or possessing anti-features, and that my brain is trying to match again an unusual set of features such that leather induces this reaction in me — i.e. that it’s a person wearing someone else’s skin — whereas more normal people learned a substantially different set of feature detectors and just see leather as nothing more than a durable fabric?