I do believe there is a niche of people into that. Though my view might be skewed by The Algorithm :tm: knowing I like vintage fashion.
My youtube shorts recs are full of chicks trying on their grandmother’s old and well-kept clothes from the 50s~70s.
I learned some years ago that Rand wrote erotica before she wrote ““philosophy””
Then I read some of her porn. And everything clicked.
She let her self-indulgent porn fantasies leak into her philosophy, that’s all.