Magneto (birth name: Max Eisenhardt; alias: Erik Lehnsherr and Magnus) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The X-Men #1 (cover-dated September 1963) as an adversary of the X-Men.
The character is a powerful mutant, one of a fictional subspecies of humanity born with superhuman abilities, who has the ability to generate and control magnetic fields. Magneto regards mutants as evolutionarily superior to humans and rejects the possibility of peaceful human-mutant coexistence; he initially aimed to conquer the world to enable mutants, whom he refers to as Homo superior, to replace humans as the dominant species. Writers have since fleshed out his origins and motivations, revealing him to be a Holocaust survivor whose extreme methods and cynical philosophy derive from his determination to protect mutants from suffering a similar fate at the hands of a world that fears and persecutes them. He is a friend of Professor X, the leader of the X-Men, but their different philosophies cause a rift in their friendship at times. Magneto’s role in comics has progressed from supervillain to antihero to superhero, having served as an occasional ally and member of the X-Men, even leading the New Mutants for a time as headmaster of the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters.
Ian McKellen has portrayed Magneto in various films since X-Men in 2000, while Michael Fassbender has portrayed a younger version of the character in the prequel films since X-Men: First Class in 2011. Both actors portrayed their respective incarnations in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
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I know a lot of kinky people, and it seems like for a lot of them and for me a lot of kink is rooted in processing trauma. Do you think in a better society where people suffer less abuse and can get care for that abuse, a much more healthy society, we’d see less kink from people not needing that outlet for trauma or more kinky because people will be more open and willing to explore new things?
This is actually a really interesting idea. I can definetly say that most of my kinks are also rooted in trauma as well. I’m not certain that we would necessarily see less kink though, I think that as long as we have sex people will be trying new and inventive things with it. The thing is that sexual preferences and practices are ultimately socially constructed right? For instance all Mormons have to like
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Wear special underwear they aren’t allowed to take off? Which prevents them from having ‘normal’ sex. I forget what exactly the situation is, would have to look it up but yknow
And I’ve also seen anecdotal evidence that like protocol kink (calling people ‘master’ and observing certain layers of formality) is more common in Germany where the language has more levels of, uh, formality for people to use.
So I think this definetly means that under a better society than what we have right now kink will look a whole lot different. I don’t think it’s safe to say there will be no kink though, because also at the end of the day kink is pretty fucking fun!
P. S. I could also go into the history of one of my favorite kinks and how it very much can’t have existed in its present form more than a couple years ago, but I’m not super prepared to and I’m not sure it’s super relevant to the conversation :P
I’m glad someone else found my weird thoughts interesting. Also I’d love to know the history of any kink, it’s all pretty neat to me.
Well I mean I’m pretty into hypnosis. I’m not like uhh suuper well read in How We Got To Where We Are Currently but I know that like hypnotism wasn’t really like investigated until a few centuries ago (ok wikipedia says late 1700s was when white ppl got started doing it and writing about it in books but it does astutely point out that trances (a pretty central element of hypnosis) were very much a thing before that) (and also like it is yknow possible to like go into a trance without it having anything to do with hypnosis like if you have adhd hyperfocus can ‘be’ a trance and yknow stuff like that).
Anyways one of the common tropes is like ‘oh you’re brainwashing someone into being your [sex] slave’ right but like the thing is that the word brainwash was invented by like one of the proto-cia guys (I don’t feel like looking up his name right now lol) who invented the whole idea of brainwashing in order to explain why people would choose to support communism. If the communists are using what’s basically magic to get people to support them then that way you don’t have to engage with any actual arguments for why people might choose to become communists.
people might’ve invented/been pushed to it from traumas of society but i think there’s enough to it that’d it’d perpetuate independently of those stressors.
the real worry is that FALGSC might stifle the creation of new and exciting fetishes. at least till the aliens show up
There are two factors at play. One, kinky stuff is fun. Two, isomorphism is valued under cpaitlaism. It is important to be normal so you maximize your ability to secure profit. That’s why under capitalism everything is beige. To be willing to explore something like kink, or a kink identity, you probably need some reason to distance yourself from society. Trauma is a very good reason to ignore the drive to be normal. Then having exciting sexy adventures. There is a reason you see most people start swinging in their 30-40s. That is when most people start to realize the american dream is a lie and they have to find their own happiness. That is why you find so many nerdy or neurodivergent people in kink. They have already had yto break with society, so one more thing is not a hardship, especially to have a sexy adventure.
Bonus if you want to find a board game group I guarantee the people ar your local dungeon all play boardgames and you know they re good about showing up to events.
Pushing everyone into the Willy Wonka Fast Travel Tunnel in 2095 to keep kink alive