My fethish (accidentally stated in the wrong thread... awkward 0.0) is handicap bathroom stalls

Kind of linked to Shifty's idea, but I also wonder how much fetishes are developed by early perceptions of sexualisation - particularly in cultures where sexuality is generally something kept behind closed doors and not discussed in front of children. If your earliest awareness of sex is something mysterious, is it much of a surprise if you make some (apparently strange) links between sex and something else you also find mysterious?

Just some more fod for thought, I guess

I wouldn't know, because I probably knew WAY too much about sex for my own good when I was young.

Like, for example, the reason breasts are so erotic in America is because the media watchdogs say kids should ABSOLUTELY NEVER EVER EVER see a boob after they stop breastfeeding. We've fetishized them.

Ooh, ttg... look at the ad in your post... BOOBS!!! 😀

Shifty: Immagine how no-one sees the same ads you do; you look just ridiculous! Don't post so many one-liners in this topic. >:0 Don't you know that this is the Super Marble Garden.

"I have to admit, I've always been preoccupied with thinking of ways to lead people into doing things or thinkng things or to cause situations to occur through several unlinked incidental acts. Is this the sort of thing that might manifest itsself in my sexuality if I didnt sorta already have an oulet for that? Maybe it is about outlets"

you might be devilishly cute, but i think the mind game is more attractive when being performed by women. a lot of women have the ability to manipulate and control others just by their words, almost like magic. i guess they're attractive that way but they scare me.

"There are, of course, certain kinks which have just become part of the public psyche (glasses is a good example. Heck, even bondage is, the way I see it used in some shows.)"

that is a very good point. the thing is before glasses was a turn off now its a turn on cause of anime. so perhaps a fetish is something you get for something when it is "praised"? 
really if anime didnt put furries and girls in bandages in a good image people wouldn't have been fetished to it, they transformed it into an art, and one of humans basic nature is being attracted to beauty. and beauty can be seen in just about anything depending on a person's imagination.

also if we're still in the discussion of trying to understand fetishes, i think it might be connected to a past memory that's burned in someone's thoughts and a certain "object or action" triggers it into an emotion (pleasure even). maybe the reason no one can fight off their own fetish is because its connected to a memory and you cant erase memories.

Another SERIOUSLY huge generalization... not all girls are attractive, much less use that quality to play "mind games" with people.

Another SERIOUSLY huge generalization... not all girls are attractive, much less use that quality to play "mind games" with people.

But she didn't say "all" girls, she said "a lot of" girls. Haven't been following the discussion though, so I'm not really sure what exactly Mada and Shifty were referring to.

Anyway, I don't know much about fetishes, but one idea in particular caught my attention when skimming through this thread; the idea of cartoons being a source of fetishes. Ironically, I myself sometimes wonder if cartoons create nostalgia towards certain ideas (ie. 101 Dalmatians movies creating nostalgia to the idea of the most aggressive characters being women through Cruella de Vil) that make certain kinds of porn more appealing. (Ie. Mangas where girls rape guys)

But as plausible as it sounds, speculation isn't really as meaningful as proof. Anyone here know what neuroscientists and psychology experts say about the idea?

Not sure about experts, but (iirc) Freud took the view that fetishes arose as sublimations of sexual urges - something like you have an unconscious sexual desire that your conscious mind suppresses due to thinking it inappropriate, at which point the unconscious effectively smuggles the desire into the conscious by presenting it in a different way, connecting it to something somehow related but sufficiently different.

Then again, a lot of Freud's theories have been superseded or discredited, and, not being an expert on psychology, I don't really know if this is one of them...

Freud's mind was on nothing but sex for most of his life, so if he has a theory on fetishes, there might be something to it. Not that I've done any psychological research myself, but that theory sounds pretty plausible.

The only thing I can equate inflation to is submission. I also like goo, bondage, and human livestock, and they all have to do with submission. Sometimes I beg my boyfriend to tell me "no" instead of being so nice and agreeable, because I "like" it. And it all seems to stem from my father being the master of the household and telling us ladies what to do all the time. An unfortunate childhood circumstance leading to an adult fetish, hmm.

The only thing to refute this idea is that I was fascinated with inflation loooong before I had any idea my father was such an iron fist. But then again, that could play right into the "unconscious" babble Freud always goes on about.

Freud's mind was on nothing but sex for most of his life, so if he has a theory on fetishes, there might be something to it.

But just thought on its own, even if a lot of thought, wouldn't be enough... it really depends on how empirical his approach was. (Ie. How much of the focus was on testing the ideas through experiments, etc... which in this case I wouldn't know.)

It feels awkward to see people so openly discussing fetishes I've barely heard of... let alone on the board of a site about a kids' videogame series... I'm not sure whether I feel innocent or naive. Though I guess it's worth pointing out the combination of a cartoony side with adult subjects creates things that neither on its own would yield... the rule-34 references in one of Ultra's abortion threads comes to mind... I guess the whole is more than the sum of its parts.

As for the idea of telling one's significant other to stop being so nice and agreeable... be careful what you wish for. o.o

Freud was not exactly noted for his strictly empirical methods, although his theorising was put into practice in his professional life through treating metally ill patients - effectively founding modern psychiatric treatment in the process.

As for his mind being on sex for most of his life, that may have had at least a little to do with the very conservative environment he lived in - late 19th/early 20th Century Europe, where Victorian social values were not restricted just to Britain - and the fact he was largely treating women who had suffered a mental breakdown. Given their views on sex were MUCH more conservative than most current social views on the topic (hint, this discussion would not be considered appropriate in that time, or at the very least highly dubious in an academic pursuit, and generally to be frowned upon), if we accept Freud as being partially correct then it would be hardly surprising to discover that a lot of the traumas he was dealing with were due to excessive sexual repression, and so skew the view as to what the underlying driving force of human psychology is.

Mind you, I'm not an expert on Freudian theory, so some of what I have written may be contaminated with my own attempts to make sense of what little I have learned...

I have a fetish for redheads with long hair. o.o

Shifty, you now have a way to manipulate Hukos.

I have a fetish for redheads with long hair. o.o

Lol ME TOO.

i think you're confusing between fetish and preferance.

All red-heads with long hair have the same personality. So do people who like it, so I already knew that about Hukos. It's why we choose that hairstyle. I expect The Turtle Guy to show up and mentions how he likes red-heads. I will think of more people.