A Critical Period For Lactation Fetishes

An original-research debunk. Enquist et al found lactation fetishists have more younger siblings, interpreted as support for a critical-window sexual-imprinting theory (seeing breastfeeding young → lactation fetish). Scott notices this resembles the birth-order-effect-on-openness he sees in SSC data, and tests it with the SSC 2019 survey: across fetishes only lactation is (barely) significant, and — the clever move — only-children behave like older-sibling people, not younger-sibling people, which suggests it's an older-sibling-suppresses-openness effect, not a critical-window effect. Casts doubt on the simple imprinting theory via a well-chosen confound.

Quality 64 · Strong. 64 — low Strong. A clever piece of amateur original research with a genuinely sharp confound-detection move (the only-children control), casting doubt on a published finding, but narrow (a single fetish-imprinting question) and hedged about multiple comparisons. Firm low-Strong.

Claude’s paradigm shift 46 · Moderate. 46 — Moderate. The birth-order-confound / alternative-explanation test is a clever, mildly generative move.

Real-world impact 1 · Negligible. 1 — negligible. A niche original-research post; no material reach.