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lupestripe ([personal profile] lupestripe) wrote2010-01-08 12:58 pm

The Nascence Of My Fetishes

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

[identity profile] doco.livejournal.com 2010-01-08 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I've long loved the idea of having some sort of parasite/symbionte etc. inside me and artificially bulging me out, however the concept of being pregnant per se didn't develop in my head until my early twenties. Too many science fiction films as a kid, probably. :)

[identity profile] shep-shepherd.livejournal.com 2010-01-08 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting. It's strange how childhood experiences have had such a significant effect on shaping our adult lives :)
Edited 2010-01-08 17:26 (UTC)

[identity profile] doco.livejournal.com 2010-01-08 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
When you're a lonely, horny teenager who's just found out he must be deviant somehow, _everything_ becomes fapping material all of a sudden. ^.^

[identity profile] shep-shepherd.livejournal.com 2010-01-08 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I went through a similar stage ^^

[identity profile] lupestripe.livejournal.com 2010-01-08 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't, it's a crazy thing really. I think I am in that stage now.

[identity profile] lupestripe.livejournal.com 2010-01-08 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Didn't happen with me - it's getting worse as the years go on, if anything :P