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

[alexf0x.livejournal.com]

Furry for me was age 5 or 6 and I had Disney’s Robin hood to blame for that. I'll blame AOFW along with a few other thing a little bit too.

Still next month marks ten years of being in the fandom for me, still can't believe that I've been here so long, let alone think about how long it's been since some of these early influences.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, Disney's Robin Hood - how could I forget that? Same for me too but I can't remember how old I was when I saw it. I must admit that The Animals Of Farthing Wood had a far greater impact on me.

I have only been here three years but I am heading towards thirty so I can delve back a bit in time too.

[tuxedokitty.livejournal.com]

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. :-)

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

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 :)