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

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah. I doubt my family ever cared much for it, either (although in retrospect, it doesn't seem to me they actively discouraged it, either; they probably saw it as "just a phase", something that didn't carry significance)...

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Mine actively discouraged it - they thought it was beneath me to do such childish things. Ironically, now my Dad loves the whole furry thing :)

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Heh, funny. Better late than never, though! :)

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

True, true. I am unsure what specific thing he likes about it - I think he just likes the general insanity of it :)

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good enough reason to me! :)