i wasn't joking

https://twitter.com/zebratron2084/status/1424820818677227524

"numbers on body" is actually core kink for me

i could probably occupy a therapist for three or four months with why because damned if i know and i feel like i should, there's definitely something deep to unearth there :)

genuinely a little sad to see that there's virtually zero usage of "arithmophilia" to refer to an actual kink/paraphilia (i found one google result and it was a tongue-in-cheek list of kinks an artist would do; there were several hundred entries and they were clearly copied from somewhere else)

i can't be the only one, i can't

ok a little more research shows that there are two main sites that mention "arithmophilia." Every other source seems to copy from one of them. Both are... pretty neat, actually, but are clearly just etymological wankery.

in fact, one outright admits these are purely hypothetical and were all cribbed from a list of phobias.

https://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/philias.html

the other was written as clickbait for a "sex education" website

https://sexducates.com/list-of-paraphilias/

one truly is the loneliest number. harry nilsson, you were a genius. ;_;

@zebratron2084

So what kind of body numbering we talking about? Only mysterious natural Arabic numerals? How do you feel about bodies with registration numbers like a boat or a plane? Mysterious serial numbers? What about Roman numeral tattoos? Is it still good if the bodies are synthetic?

@001zlnv I mean, these are all very yes. If we were playing the Raggedy Ann and Andy Drinking Game[1], I'd have had to do five shots just now.

[1] "Watch a piece of media. If you see one of your kinks represented, drink. It DEFINITELY counts even if the instance on screen is unattractive or undesirable."

And presumably increment myself appropriately...

...

*sigh*

*drink*

Six.

@zebratron2084

so how do you feel about cyber limbs with part numbers and serial numbers stamped on each component?