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Perhaps you are right about that. I don't doubt that the wider availability of non-mainstrem pornography has also widened people's perceptions when it comes to what turns them on. But I am more skeptical of the idea that simply seeing various fetishes on the internet creates a significant amount of new fetishists. I see out-of-the-mainstream sexual acts on the internet all the time that don't strike me as arousing. An avid interest in extreme forms of sexuality is usually found to be rooted in pre-pubescent development - not something that just strikes you one day as an adult while you are browsing on the internet. In other words, someone who is interested in scat or heavy bdsm will be much more likely to be on the internet LOOKING for that kind of material rather than happening upon it by chance.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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