Well since I have been tagged/paged or whatever it's called, I thought I pretty much addressed your question a couple of times upthread. Didn't you see? Am not aware that I need to ask myself anything. For am in touch with myself and know the answers to your apparent questions. (or are they perchance accusations?) In short, at the risk of repetition, I find it interesting and very human (though not always of late on this bit) and honest communication between folks strikes me as good and healthy. I learn a fair bit, gain an insight into a fair bit, laugh and learn. Hell I was even encouraged by the human straight talking common sense I saw on a Meghan Markle thread that the Mnet front page threw at me. "Normally of course I wouldn't go there" to maybe misquote a charming song from a bit before my time. But rewarding.
Thank you by the way for the fake concern for my health and the suggestion that I may be slimy/disturbed. I plead innocent.
On the core question I pretty much agree with what @PinotPony posted above.
And she's (a she?) right about the homosexuality thing. Quite right - the american psychology register or whatever it is called I think only removed the definition of homosexuality as a perversion/mental disorder in the 1970s.
In short, a perversion for me is anything that is not consensual between mentally capable adults. ie Informed consent. Minors, animals come under that heading, for pretty obvious reasons. Ditto any relationship where a duty of care would be assumed. Anything else, none of my concern, even if not my thing.
Can probably plead "guilty" to kinda 2 of the things listed upthread about supposed perversions. But all entirely consensual and I refuse to see the women who lead me that way as perverted or in any way bad.
Must admit the plimsoll thing rather puzzled me .But as I said, you learn things from mumsnet. And unless I have missed something it sounds entirely harmless. Between consenting adults.
Also on the core theme, I must say that I have long found the casual chucking of the term pervert around as deeply off putting. Smacks of disgust about sex. It drags me back to the days of 14 year old schoolkids, who knew not much about anything let alone sex, chucking the term around as a casual insult. I may even as a 14 year old have sought out the more esoteric sections of local bookshops/libraries seeking definitions out off concern that I was so tainted/damned.Then pretty soon decided that most of what I read in those days was rot. Pure rot. Then got on with life.
But the suspicion of folks who indulge in pervert confetti or who claim that a simple definition can be found on google so that they can chuck the term around as a definitive charge without defining it remains.