Speculate that all weird sexual fetishes result from psychological displacement of awkwardness around regular sexuality. You biologically desire it but are socially forbidden from expressing it, even thinking it, so you end up desiring something else as a proxy. Probably another effect of shame in promiscuity.
But (optimistically) society moving toward tolerance of such fetishes ("not that there's anything wrong with that") might (optimistically) cause tolerance and acceptability of sexuality in general. And then, if the hypothesis is correct, weird sexual fetishism will paradoxically decrease despite its acceptance.
One hopes it is not cyclical, nor that there is some countervailing force.
Does a society's prevelant fetishes mean something (e.g., German, Japanese, etc.) about a specific psychological thing going on about sexuality in that culture? Can we quantify the total amount of fetishism going on to measure improvement toward social acceptance of regular sexuality?
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Interesting and thought-provoking idea (which I guess is the main point), but I am skeptical of its validity. There seem to be plenty of people who are comfortable with and enjoy regular sexuality yet who additionally enjoy some kink or another. So I'm not sure how they would fit into this model.
I agree that "all" is too strong a statement. There may be exogenous (outside the model) reasons why someone may like something.
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