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]

Rubber sheet? Where did you get that from? Was it just lying around? The closest I ever got to rubber as a kid was a rubber swimming hat we had to wear to protect us all from nits.

I remember seeing girls dressed as cats as a kid too and being jealous. I wanted to be like them too. Shia Khan scared me, but I was a cub scout so The Jungle Book has a long list of difficult memories for me. Tom & Jerry I never really got into strangely. Was quite a pacifist really and didn't like violence, even fake contrived violence.

[snowtiger-uk.livejournal.com]

The rubber sheet was something that was used on a daily basis untill it started to perish PVC was not widely used then, well not where that was used. You can still buy rubber sheet and reated items today.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

My Master buys such things to make naughty things out of it. I guess I am too one-tracked - I am sure you can make lots of things out of rubber and PVC. Still, I don't often see PVC sheet around nowadays either.