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

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

WAM - Wet And Messy.

Sometimes I forget just how good his mullet was.

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

Interesting that you realised this so young in life...your kinks that is; not Pat's hairdo.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I think we all realised how good Pat's hairdo was. And, of course, how great his jokes were at the start of every episode of Fun House.

It's a strange one - I am not sure if kinks are formed latently in the brain in childhood and manifest themselves later in the life or whether people happen to fall into them through means of curiosity or incidents in their lives. Psychologists say that we are 95% formed, psychologically, by age 3 so I am sure there is a big childhood element for most people. Certainly so for me.

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I believe that most of my kinks were formed in childhood, but I didn't get a chance to begin to indulge them them until my mid-20s.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I didn't get the chance to indulge in mine until about the same age really. And the longer I waited, the more kinks I started to have and the more they developed into deep-seated fantasies. I think had I realised my kinks in my mid to late teens then I probably would have fewer of them now.

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I think that the internet has helped me a lot, as not only has it allowed me the chance to discover that there are others with the same kinks as me (and others that I didn't know I had!), I have been able to communicate with them and very often have been able to make real life friends with them *hug*

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

It sounds like a similar situation with me too. I didn't realise that the Fandom would be so full of people with kinks - I was genuinely surprised. When I found out I could exercise those kinks in the Fandom, it made it even more special for me :)

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I think that members of the furry fandom are generally more open-minded and adventurous than many other sections of society, which is a good thing in my book :)

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Certain members are, certainly. Some though, are amongst the most closed-minded I have met. Still, there are people with common kinks and fetishes, so I understand what you say :)