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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] tuxedokitty.livejournal.com 2010-01-08 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Funny you should mention the Disney animated Robin Hood movie. I saw it shortly after it was released (yes, I'm dating myself here), and I loved it then. I bring the DVD with me to every con I attend. :-)

[identity profile] lupestripe.livejournal.com 2010-01-08 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
It pretty much saved Disney, didn't it? In 1973 they were screwed. Half of the scenes from Robin Hood were borrowed from previous movies yet they made a masterpiece. I wish I could have seen it in the cinema. It would have been fantastic there, I'm sure.

Another aspiration is to watch Robin Hood in a fox fursuit. I have watched The Fox And The Hound in one - it was a unique experience :)