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Aren't you missing your analogy of getting a separate tool just to train? I too have different hammers for different jobs, but I don't have an extra set of hammers just because I love hammering so much and neither do you.
No, because what is sensible for the individual might not be sensible for a group of people and what might be sensible for a small group of people might not be sensible for the larger group. If we take your argument, which is that what is sensible for one is sensible for all then it should be sensible for everyone to spend a few grand on setting up a home server to have all the services big tech provides at your home so your data is actually yours. So why isn't everyone doing "the sensible" thing? Because for most people it's not sensible because they don't have the technical know-how how to set something like that up, they don't care to keep it running, they don't care to backup their data and they don't care to spend money on something they feel they don't need.
Do you really want to go down the statistics route? For starters, 16 million is less than 5% of the American population. I couldn't find a credible number of gun owners but that percentage would be bound to go up significantly considering how marginal it is for the entire American population I'll give you that. But there's a caveat and that's hunting itself. By far the most popular game to hunt is deer, which is about half of all the hunts, and a third of the hunters don't even use a modern firearm. So not only does that 16 million drop to 10-11 million hunters with modern firearms, half of them are getting by with just a single hunting rifle. Now for the multiple game hunters we're below 2% of the entire American population and that's under the assumption that the whole 100% of people within that 2% regularly hit the shooting range to justify owning a separate set of firearms.
I didn't say there's anything wrong with a sex dungeon. I said that despite it being sensible for someone practicing BDSM it's not sensible for the vast majority of people for the similar reason everyone doesn't have a home server, they don't know how to set it up, they don't have the space to set it up, they don't want to maintain it and they don't want to spend money on it when they can just use the bed/couch/floor/whatever. What might be sensible for a BDSM practitioner is not sensible for everyone having sex.