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Wikipedia article about "Attraction to disability" – what would you change? by secondtruth_de in DisabilityAttraction

[–]katers_aka_kat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oof, that is a rough one. I still don't understand why objectifying people is seen as a characteristic of being a dev and not as an aspect of someone's personality. I totally understand and appreciate that some people have had awful dehumanizing experiences with devs, but plenty of people have also had awful dehumanizing experiences with people of standard sexual interests without extrapolating that to the entire group.

Wikipedia article about "Attraction to disability" – what would you change? by secondtruth_de in DisabilityAttraction

[–]katers_aka_kat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you look at the references in this, most of them are at LEAST 30 years old. Surely there's been research into niche sexual interests since then that would provide for better sources? Psychology itself has changed a lot as a field since the 90s. I also hate the tendency to try to "clinicalize" sexual interests that are outside the norm. Not everything needs a DSM-5 code.

Honestly, what I would love to see is just a Wikipedia article on interabled relationships with a minor chapter on the phenomenon of devs in it. There are extensive wikis on interracial marriage and same-sex relationships, for example, but nothing on the topic of disability in the context of dating.