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I've always wondered why I and so many others crave to see our favourite characters bloodied and beaten to near death, choking on vomit, collapsing to the floor in what may seem like senseless torture but may actually be some sort of coping mechanism, and I have thought of a few reasons.
You crave the vulnerability that comes with physical and/or mental trauma.
It's not the whump itself, but rather the comfort that comes after it. Fainting and waking up to worried faces, wet cloths and hushed whispers of a family that you yourself will never experience so you project it onto a fictional character. You just want to be seen and taken care of.
You're suffering from a physical/ mental illness and want some form of comfort or solidarity.
If you write, you revel in the control you have over another where you have no control in reality.
If you write, you're expressing your own inner pain through writing.
You want to feel something.
You're just horny in the sex-repulsed way and whump is your smut (?? What does this even mean)
You're just horny.