when the blog expires will you be leaving these kinds of articles floating around for the future enlightenment of fuckers?

I plan to leave the blog intact as a whole when I leave. This information is likely to show up in some other venues as well, however.

…but then I went ahead and confused myself and decided to double-check.

If it makes you feel any better, I’ve done that with my own words as well.

But I am still wondering about how terminology can be used to address the whole continuum between occasional fantasy on a certain matter and having a paraphilia on that same matter

Well, just like many other words in the English language, the words are often stretched to encompass more than a specific clinical term, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with that, generally speaking. It’s okay to say someone is an exhibitionist, for example, if they just like to flash their tits as passing cars, for example. And someone can have exhibitionistic tendencies without having any pathology behind it. The same is true for the word “fetish” as well.

The only term I really take issue with someone expanding beyond its literal meaning is “pedophile.” People use that to describe adults who engage in sexual relations with teenagers and that is so outside what the word means as to make it ludicrous. Not to mention, of course, that it attaches a negatively charged label to someone inappropriately.

I hope that answers your question.

when the blog expires will you be leaving these kinds of articles floating around for the future enlightenment of fuckers?

But I am still wondering about how terminology can be used to address the whole continuum between occasional fantasy on a certain matter and having a paraphilia on that same matter :)
I guess I should just wait to see if you cover that :)