I spent my college years doing extensive general research on social deviance- why people do “weird shit”- and yet, i’m so fascinated by the portions of the internet like this. Mainstream social deviance research is more focused on major topics- ex: invest, crime, insectionality, etc, and not in small-group topics.
I often wonder what it is specifically that makes someone move something that is sort of tangentially-sexual, like the heartbeat itself indicating arousal, into a full-blown sexual attraction.