The Nascence Of My Fetishes

[lupestripe]

Many psychologists believe that kinks, fetishes and other psychological deviations from "the norm" (and please don't pick apart that term, I use it merely for reference) are fostered in childhood, particularly through childhood experiences. Thinking back, I have realised that a couple of my kinks were a part of my identity from a very early age.

Furry - Age 10 - Watching The Animals Of Farthing Wood, I remember feeling empathy for and wanting to be Fox. I also remember seeing fursuiters about (on very rare occasions) and wishing that I could get a costume of my very own.
BDSM - Age 9 - The police visited our primary school to talk about crime and self-defence techniques. They got two volunteers from the audience and put them in handcuffs. I remember feeling so jealous of them and cursing my shyness for not volunteering.
Pup Play/Rubber - Age 7 - Through The Dragon's Eye was a children's TV show involving a dragon in a rubber-clad suit. Again, I was obsessed with this. The same was true of Woof! - the kid who turned into a dog for no discernable reason. I wanted to be him!!
WAM - Age 7 - I always wanted to go on Fun House with Pat Sharpe. I was never interested in the Fun House itself, or that go-karting thing, but the gunge games. This became somewhat obsessional at an early age.

There are probably other cases if I think back hard enough but these came to me recently. For me, certainly, the way I am was definitely something borne from my early childhood. So I blame my parents :P

Comments

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

'Woof!' had the same effect on me :)

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Woof was amazing! It was one of those programmes that ignited something in me. That and The Animals Of Farthing Wood were two things that lit my furry side :)

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I think that The Raccoons (both the series and the films), Around the World with Willy Fog, Belle And Sebastian and Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds were my biggest influences, along with the film, Animalympics, which was as furry as they came.

I decided that I wanted a GSD fursuit back in 1993 or so, when I saw a BBC comedy series set in a school called The Boot Street Band, which featured a character called Mr. Prince, who was an anthropomorphic German Shepherd teacher :)

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I love that avatar *wags*. I remember all those series - ATWwWF was probably the one that had the greatest influence on me out of those ones because of the travelling aspect. Apart from that, the rest were great cartoons but didn't really grip me in the way that Farthing Wood and Disney's Robin Hood did.

The Boot Street Band sounds interesting - I have never heard of that. I may have to check that out on You Tube :)

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

The Boot Street Band was quite a laugh. It centred around a school class who sacked their teacher and the ensuing adventures they had :)

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

A school class sacked their teacher? Sounds like a novel and interesting concept. I'll try and see if I can dig it out somewhere. Nowadays, he would just have been evicted from the school and told not to come back :P