When did extreme fetishes start becoming normal? -

[Dustlord]

I can remember 10 years ago, it was weird to have a fat or foot fetish. Tranny chasers were considered extreme fetishists, on par with BDSM people.

Nowadays I see otherwise normal people talking about their interest in traps, simulated incest, BDSM, etc openly.

What the fuck happened? I'm not even shaming anyone, its just weird how fast this has all become normalized.

 

[Epic Fedora Man]

Deviantart and Anime.

 

[Diesel Boogaloo]

I guess you can use archive.org to see what the front page of Pornhub looked like over the years.
But that only answers "when", not "why".

 

[Epic Fedora Man]

There is also a link between fetishes and geek culture becoming popular as playing video games and watching anime leads to more masturbating.

 

[garakfan69]

Tranny chasers were considered extreme fetishists, on par with BDSM people.

Shemale stuff has been popular for decades. 20 years ago mainstream porn sites already had it.
And even the classic old media porn producers released shemale porn.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

The very moment it became possible to discreetly produce and distribute porn.

From there it just accelerated until most people have no shame about wanting to see someone debase themselves.

 

[Dustlord]

Shemale stuff has been popular for decades. 20 years ago mainstream porn sites already had it.
And even the classic old media porn producers released shemale porn.

I knew exactly one person that would admit to watching shemale porn, he was universally considered a closet case and mocked pretty harshly for it.
Also, it was still considered shocking to be exposed to it until the 2010s. See: meatspin
If meatspin was spread around today, it wouldn't have become a meme because so many people have seen worse than a tranny taking it up the ass.

 

[The Last Stand]

The Internet.

 

[Flip: Draw 2]

Thanks to the relatively anonymous nature of the internet, every niche fetish will naturally create a small coomunity online. However, since only those with an interest in the fetish habitate these smaller websites they, like every small echo chamber, will become emboldened and think it's normal.

Ex. Fat fetishist is embarrassed of being into cellulite, but then they join the infamous chubby chaser forum, Kiwi Farms, they then think it's normal to obsess over fat women all day because other people do it.

 

[garakfan69]

I knew exactly one person that would admit to watching shemale porn, he was universally considered a closet case and mocked pretty harshly for it.

How many people do you know now that admit to watching shemale porn?
In real life, not weirdos on the internet.

 

[Dustlord]

How many people do you know now that admit to watching shemale porn?
In real life, not weirdos on the internet.

I generally don't ask about people's porn habits, so not enough data there.
However most of those weirdos aren't losers that never leave the house, quite a few have lives, friends, families, etc and post this stuff under their real identity so I'm left to believe they would admit it if asked.

 

[Idiotron]

Foot fetish is like the most common one after an ass fetish (yes, liking ass is a fetish too).
The really weird stuff however isn't normal, it's just that the fetishists are very loud on social media so it might seem like this stuff is everywhere.
The vast majority of people are very vanilla, I've explained DDLG to some acquaintances yesterday and they were horrified.

 

[Toolbox]

The internet, but not that alone. The generation of insular communities on the internet for people to hide within forever allows for a feedback loop. Thus there's been a continual pipeline of people finding porn they like, and then they join communities relating to that, and start spiraling deeper down the rabbit hole.

 

[Not Really Here]

One human's extreme fetish(eg buggery) is another degenerate's innate sexuality.

 

[Weed Eater]

I can remember 10 years ago, it was weird to have a fat or foot fetish. Tranny chasers were considered extreme fetishists, on par with BDSM people.

Nowadays I see otherwise normal people talking about their interest in traps, simulated incest, BDSM, etc openly.

What the fuck happened? I'm not even shaming anyone, its just weird how fast this has all become normalized.

How are foot fetishes gross or in the sense "extreme"? It's just feet. As long as they're small and taken care of, I can understand why some guys think they're an attractive part of the body.

At least compared to BDSM or trannies, I don't think such basic body parts fall into the "extreme" category

 

[Dustlord]

How are foot fetishes gross or in the sense "extreme"? It's just feet. As long as they're small and taken care of, I can understand why some guys think they're an attractive part of the body.

At least compared to BDSM or trannies, I don't think such basic body parts fall into the "extreme" category

I think maybe I was unclear.
I was saying feet fetishists were seen as weird. My comment about trannies and BDSM was largely separate, only included with it because I was discussing how people perceived them at the time. (feet fetishists as a little weird, tranny chasers as closet gays, bdsm as extreme, etc)

 

[Str8Bustah]

How are foot fetishes gross or in the sense "extreme"? It's just feet. As long as they're small and taken care of, I can understand why some guys think they're an attractive part of the body.

At least compared to BDSM or trannies, I don't think such basic body parts fall into the "extreme" category

Spoiler: you should know better than this by now

 

[jje100010001]

Because of mass media + the need for media to be eyecatching (outside the norm), everything gradually gets normalized over time.

Internet put this into hyperdrive as the controlled space of television and radio was suddenly blasted open for the masses, and social media was the cumulation of this as the barriers to entry were entirely erased- allowing the aggregation of localized communities focused around certain interests. You literally don't need to do anything these days to find a niche you want, whereas even so much as two decades ago, you had to physically find these sorts of communities.

So IMO, easy public access + the need for views driving 'unique subversiveness' is what normalizes niche interests and fetishes. What's worse- both play into each other in accelerating normalization.

 

[nigger of the north]

They've always been around, but largely suppressed and shut away by both the common censor(s) and people's own sensibilities. Just take a read of The Lives of Gallant Ladies, The Hundred Tales, The Heptameron, Gamiani, or any other the numerous erotic, if not downright pornographic novels and stories from the medieval period onward. For perhaps some of the most outrageous shit you'll ever come across, take a look inside one of the many biographies of the Marquis de Sade.

When did people start unabashedly showing off their fetishes? That's definitely a post-internet thing, for sure.

 

[ClownBrew]

90s bisexuals and/or goths