Not really, the way it read, your trope is essentially "Character X has a kink, but averts any kink-related trope". That IS People Sit On Chairs, because the trope boils down to "Some people have kinks".
It would be the as making a trope saying "Character X is left-handed, but averts all trope about left-handedness" - that boils down to saying "Some people are left handed"
Oh my, you really show how necessary my upcoming tropes Consenting Adults and Safe Word are.
The TWO tropes that Casual Kink averts are Bondage Is Bad and Brains and Bondage.
In the pre-Casual Kink setup, having a kink is something that by definition makes the character either cool or a bad person. When being kinky didn't make the character a bad person, it counted as if it DID make that person a bad person, except that it was averted. Bleah.
Also, I have to add a "Out Of The Closet trope and relate Casual Kink to it.
One thing about heteronormativity is that everyone is assumed to be heterosexual and vanilla. Mentioning a partner of the opposite sex or a mainstream sexual activity doesn't count as coming out. Mentioning a partner of the same sex is to come out as homosexual/bisexual, mentioning interest in BDSM or fetishism is to come out as kinky.
If that's people sit on chairs in your world... well, wow, cool world you are living in. I bet a lit of LGBTQ people are envious and would like to move there. ;-)
By the way, we don't have a trope about being left-handed makes you a bad person, and no trope about someone being lefthanded without people thinking it makes him a bad person. The reason for that is actually that we live in 2010. not 1910.
Believe it or not, but being left-handed used to be a HUGE deal. Here in Sweden, teachers was required to abuse left-handed children, and I bet similar rules was similar in Canada and the USA.
Yes, left-handed children in the US used to be forced to write right handed in school.
Regarding the claim that this trope would be "people sit on chairs", It is simply not true that kinky stuff are "People Sit On Chairs" in mainstream media.
In my opinion, Bi The Way is a perfectly valid trope, and a good one. Sadomaoschism and fetishism can hardly be said to be more People Sit On Chairs then bisexuality is. Well, it can be said to be People Sit On Spiked Seat Chairs That Make People Wonder Why They Do Not Seem To Be Uncomfortable, but that is Something Completely Different.
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