Post #1093093

2025-11-08 12:52 UTC

i find it really funny that kink seems pretty common among ace people, because it implies that the thought process is &quot;Sex? That sounds boring. Oh, there can be ~contraptions~ involved? Well maybe that&#39;s worth checking out actually, I do like contraptions.&quot;

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@V@tabletop.social 2025-11-08 12:53

i say this in jest but i know at least one person who definitely has this exact thought process

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@nekorvidae@fedi.eepycats.place 2026-01-11 11:02

@V@tabletop.social have to agree with (or rather find myself in) that sentiment: My grey-ace mind happily ignores a lot of things people seemingly like about sex. But once there are contraptions, PvP, challenges, a decent skill tree, danger, trust, an arc of suspense, character development, maybe even dice, … ε> Well then sex can be used to spice things up once in a while. Sex feels like olive oil. I don't get why someone would just down an entire bottle. Yet it can be nice to put small amounts of it on salads, pasta, and other dishes … though enough stuff works really well without it.

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@nota@chaos.social 2026-01-11 12:38

@V@tabletop.social Honestly the bigger thing that appeals to me is the aspect of being able to safely explore otherwise hurtful scenarios or complicated feelings? I feel like a lot of allo people use kink for that too so it's not that different. There's still a lot of other positive feelings associated with kink for people (subspace, meltyness, feelings of comfort, safety, intimacy, ...) and those don't really go away if you remove the sex part.

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@bootie_fringe@girlcock.club 2026-01-11 13:49

@V@tabletop.social Magic The Gathering players be like: “Whenever a rigger assembles a contraption, it assembles another contraption” (lewd).

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@naga@toot.cat 2026-01-11 20:57

@V@tabletop.social Yep. Exactly this. I'm not sexually attracted (vs. aesthetically attracted) to pretty much anybody except someone applying a contraption in the moment.

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@paulference@mspsocial.net 2026-01-11 22:15

@V@tabletop.social ... I gotta know, how many ace folks are into rube goldberg contraptions?

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@PsyChuan@plush.city 2026-01-12 22:30

@V@tabletop.social i can't get hard unless there's a rube goldberg machine involved

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@arina@girlcock.club 2026-01-31 10:00

@V@tabletop.social There's definitely a mood of "sex is neat, but what if there was something else?"

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