Which Fantasies and Kinks Will Gain Popularity in a Post Pandemic World?
COVID has already affected our sex lives greatly. How will it continue to influence our erotic imaginations?
While it’s a misconception that they stem directly from our traumas, kinks can be used as tools to process them, as well as internalized shame, guilt, and other negative experiences.
By creating scenarios that either exaggerate or counteract them, we can utilize our kinks to face our fears. Bondage, for example, can help us confront a phobia for being restricted and giving up control, while simultaneously resolving an unmet need for feeling held and protected.
Other times our kinks are rooted in taboos; the more far fetched or forbidden, the more thrilling and tempting.
Happy new fear?
We’ve been living in an exceedingly strange world over the past two years and it’s hard to see an end in the immediate future. The new normal keeps contorting; do we even know what normal is anymore?
The question of what it means and whether it ever was normal, to begin with, is a story for another day, meanwhile, the pandemic has already altered our sex lives in a variety of ways. The first lockdown in 2020 saw a spike in…
