I think one of the most interesting phenomena in online kink spaces is when the traditionally sexy parts start falling out of focus.
Not something getting cleaned up for public consumption, gods no, but the aesthetics and structure of a kink genre slowly drifting away from the parts that are traditionally considered pornographic and becoming their own internal genre logic.
I mostly say this because my own mechsploitation work has taken a few interesting turns - at first it was fairly standard, psychosexual petplay bullshit, boots, yadda yadda. But the vast majority of it deals with the worldbuilding now - what motivates someone to *do* all this, what's it like for the Hound? How do they move through the world and how do they navigate the fact they're more or less existing in a state of artificially induced plurality? What's it like to have once been a person and now be a weapon?
It's not this genre alone, obviously, the transformation freaks out there have likely heard of Out-Of-Placers which also does the same thing.
