• dmention7@midwest.social
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      2 months ago

      4chan/Incel culture has co-opted “cuckolding” from a consensual kink to mean just plain old getting cheated on.

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        2 months ago

        Kink culture has co-opted it from plain old getting cheated on to a consensual kink.

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      2 months ago

      Cuckolding doesn’t imply consent. In fact it pretty specifically implies that the man doesn’t know it. The word has been in the English language for almost a thousand years, whereas the fetish is relatively new.

      Fun fact: giving someone “bunny ears” by putting two fingers behind their head used to be referred to as “the horns of the cuckold”, and it meant that you were saying that person’s wife had been unfaithful.