Does Elon Musk Have a ‘Breeding Kink?’

But there’s certainly evidence for and against Musk getting off to the fantasy of breeding—in the “for” column, there’s a tidbit Musk’s first wife, Justine Musk, shared with his biographer that he “wanted to get married and have kids early on.” There’s Grimes’ Vanity Fair interview from earlier this year in which she revealed that she and Musk, with whom she shares two kids, “wanted at least three or four” children.

And then there’s his general obsession with not just himself, but everyone having as many kids as possible:

Or, perhaps none of the women with whom Musk shares children were even into him at all, but were merely breeding fetishists themselves, and knew a man as vain and desperate as Musk could give them exactly what they wanted? Who knows how many of them are out there, really??? Disgusting as intercourse with him may be, on some level I get the appeal of having children with Musk—you’d never have to work again, and you’d probably never have to talk to him again, either, given his abysmal parenting.

On the flip side of the “Does Elon Musk have a breeding fetish?” debate, it seems very possible Musk doesn’t have a breeding kink, and is just sexist, narcissistic, rich enough to afford infinity kids, and a low-key eugenicist.

Because people are having fewer children these days for all the obvious reasons—lack of paid family leave, lack of universal child care, all of the unending costs of pregnancy and parenting, simply not wanting to have kids, etc.—Musk, who notably fired employees for getting pregnant and taking child care leave, has devoted his platform to fanning the flames of a great moral panic about this. Since he opposes public funding for child care, he knows what he’s doing when he calls for all of us to have more children: He’s telling women to quit their jobs and go back to the kitchen, and he knows this.

Musk also obviously sees himself as the self-appointed hero of humanity’s supposed crisis of declining births—he’s quite literally tweeted as much. He’s also claimed that “if each successive generation of smart people has fewer kids, that’s probably bad,” which is why Musk, a supposedly very smart man, has taken it upon himself to have nine kids. It’s also worth ruminating on his assertion that “smart” people—a quality that has always been defined by white supremacist constructs—are the ones who should be having more kids.

Whether or not Musk has a breeding fetish, by having nine kids, he’s certainly committed to the bit. That said, satisfying someone’s breeding fetish doesn’t necessarily require actually impregnating them—as WebMD notes, a breeding kink could just be fodder for masturbation, or a fantasy role-play scenario in which sexual partners play-act unprotected sex and unplanned pregnancy.

In today’s post-Roe v. Wade America, unplanned pregnancy sounds like a nightmare—but for some breeding fetishists, the added risk, stakes, and fear might just be more of a turn-on. And for those breeding fetishists who fear they might someday, accidentally take their kink too far, might I recommend the most potent birth control form of all? Thinking about Elon Musk having sex.

For someone as obsessed with growing the population as Musk is, every time he tweets about procreating, he inevitably kills the mood for dozens of couples who might have otherwise conceived.