Working Out the Kinks

I was talking with a boy I know, the other day, and he mentioned that he’d seen a TV show with perverts in it. I asked him what made them perverts and he said that a guy had done “this” to a woman’s chest, indicating a circular rubbing motion with his hand. Now I don’t know about you, but in my book of perversions, rubbing breasts is barely even a footnote.

So I brought the subject up with God. The first thing she said, was that when it came to sex, leaving out the foreplay was far more perverse than including it. We talked a little bit about the difference between perversion and fetishism, but of course the two are somewhat orthogonal. Fetishism after all is about having a strong attraction to a particular type of thing; whereas perversion is about having an abnormal attraction to a type of thing or a type of act. So a man being fond of breasts is a normal and healthy thing. A man being really, really, really fond of breasts, has likely raised his fondness to the level of fetish. And a man who is so afraid of his fondness for breasts that he has the bare breast on a statue of Lady Liberty covered with a sheet when he gives a speech in front of it has definitely crossed the line into perversion.

Then God pointed out to me that the difference I should really be discussing is the distinction between perverse and kinky. Rather than make me work it out on my own she pretty much came right out and told me. She said that perversion is when somebody does something that you don’t approve of, and kinky is when they do something that you didn’t think of.

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