FanChats💬submit your prompts!It's trope discussion Monday! What do you think about non-sexual kink in fics? What makes it work for you? Can you recommend a good fic featuring non-sexual kink? 
Mo on raccoon@FandomChats I adore all manners of rating in kinky fanworks, including non-sexual ones.
I am going to emphasis the "fanworks" part here because it's easier for me to explain my approach of this concept with non-fic examples. "Hand porn" collection of screencaps of hands is easily a non-sexual hand kink, same as "food kink" series of Miyazaki movies gifs of glistening, delicious looking food. "Competency kink" was a big thing in Stargate Atlantis fandom era.
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Did everyone use the term kink/porn in the same way for these? No. Overused terms? Maybe. My point here is how these absolutely framed non-sexual things *for the characters* in titilating ways *for the viewer*. Turned a magnifying lens on specific casual acts, regrouped them to add focus, edited them for a more intense effect.
As many have rightfully pointed out, kink can be anything. Many are experiences that have particular sensorial meaning for someone within context.
@FandomChats (3/?) There are several aspects of hurt/comfort that cuddle with kink for me, depending on the lens. Does the camera linger on the bondage, is the character reflecting on the faith and trust of rescue, are expected tropes focused on in a way to provide strong emotional and sensory reactions to characters or audience?
Tentacles are something commonly perceived as kink suggestive independantly of whether they are used as kink props or not, whether there's sex or not.
Some recs
Person Of Interest (TV): Stitch My Skin Together (Thread the Needle with Your Love) by Isagel
https://archiveofourown.org/works/16633199
Summary: John allows himself to get hurt on purpose so Harold will patch him up
Rec notes: M/M, 8K words. The fic contain sex but the sex is another expression of the featured need/kink, not the expected result of foreplay. I have no canon knowledge and enjoyed this. John is some kind of kickass special agent. Harold is his handler. Has an great podfic!