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

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

What is WAM?

-and-

You have spoken the name of the Mullet King! Pay hommage!

[diegowolffox.livejournal.com]

Hehe nice hair Lol =p

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

WAM - Wet And Messy.

Sometimes I forget just how good his mullet was.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

So super '80s :D

[sil-wolfdragon.livejournal.com]

Did i ever mention i have all the episodes of through the dragons eye?

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

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

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

No you didn't. Is there any chance you could burn them on to a CD for me? Pweeze *looks up at you longingly*

[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]

'Woof!' had the same effect on 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]

Woof was amazing! It was one of those programmes that ignited something in me. That and The Animals Of Farthing Wood were two things that lit my furry side :)

[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.

[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.

[sil-wolfdragon.livejournal.com]

Whats in it for me? :P

[rustyfox.livejournal.com]

Surely they're only kinks if they sexually excite you... heaps of kids liked gungy stuff.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Erm, free drinks next time we meet?

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

True but at the age of seven, you don't really see the world in those terms. You are right, a lot of kids did like gungy stuff but with me at the time, it grew upon the obsessional.

[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.

[sil-wolfdragon.livejournal.com]

Hrm... I'll see what I can do :P

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Yeys!! Thanks hun *hugs*

[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. :-)

[doco.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that's interesting... come to think of it, I've had similar fantasies in my childhood. I vividly remember that one episode where I ended up constructing a scenario where I would get lost in a plane crash at age 21 and mutate into some horrible proto-werewolf creature as a result. You could say I was only off by a few years (given that I pretty much discovered furry fandom at age 15-16). I also remember turning a "wish ring" on a fountain and wishing for it, heh. :P

I also recall a horribly, horribly bad made-for-television film in which people were stranded on an island and taken down one by one by a mad scientist who turned them into fish-like bloated creatures with huge bellies... I can't recall for the sake of my life how that film was called, although I believe if I saw it now, 20 years later, I'd probably get nauseous from its cornyness. :P

[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 :)

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I think that The Raccoons (both the series and the films), Around the World with Willy Fog, Belle And Sebastian and Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds were my biggest influences, along with the film, Animalympics, which was as furry as they came.

I decided that I wanted a GSD fursuit back in 1993 or so, when I saw a BBC comedy series set in a school called The Boot Street Band, which featured a character called Mr. Prince, who was an anthropomorphic German Shepherd teacher :)

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Seeing cartoon characters gain weight and/or inflate had a pretty profound effect on me :)