It's funny, cause that wasn't how i read CSR's post at all. The way i took the line 'just how not normal am I?' was in a tongue in cheek way; as a closing line to a post that essentially presented the view that...
Slavelucy: thanks... that is exactly what I was getting at. I didn't think that was off-topic at all. These were thoughts I have had while watching the general public, wondering how many ppl would be doing exactly what I'm doing, given the chance.

Tongue in cheek? Yeah indeed... and my brand of humour often gets lost in the ascii universe. Actually since I've lived in N. America, this has not been unusual.

I'm also not too sure what knowing the percentages of the population that enjoy vanilla, BDSM or kink has to do with normalcy among people in a kink lifestyle or with an interest in kink.
On the contrary TG... if we were to find out (impossible, of course) that 24% of people were into BDSM... that would make it more "normal" than being gay even.

I wasn't, of course, suggesting we try to work this out... it was just a point to ponder, so to speak. ;-)