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

[rugbywolf.livejournal.com]

I remember being put onto furry stuff by the Redwall books, I used to play at being some of the characters in the woods near my parents' house when I was about 8. I have no idea when my pup play fetish started though, its an interesting one, and probably stems from the same root cause I suppose. I remember Woof though, it was a great show <3

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I never quite got the Redwall series. I guess I probably should have read them more. I used to play Inspector Gadget quite a lot as a kid, perhaps that's where the pup play thing started. I'm not really too sure where that came from really, at least on a sexual BDSM level. Woof! was great though, that may have played a small part in it.