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I started getting uncontrolled erections whenever my sat nav told me where to go. Now I know that Knight Rider was to blame.
That's the one, officer.
Return of the Jedi Special Edition in 1997 was a... formative experience for me.
This 1 second of film is responsible for an entire generation of furries.
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I'm sure I don't know what you mean… oh, wait
Little me had a comic with Wonder Woman tied up. And here I am 50-years later...
Her and Margot Kidder started my life long love of fair skinned, blue eyed, brunettes.
Same. And Karen Allen too!
the author's thinly disguised fetish that can fit in a pg thing transferring to people like a shitty scp
Totally Spies
Kim Possible (and Shego)
Dafuq?
her boyfriend's name is Jeffrey.
His last name rhymes with Smepstein.
Notice how she doesn't say it's not pedophilia though. 💀
I have no idea what you're talking about.
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I grew up white trash. It is what it is. That belly button changed me. Just...there for all to see!? And she was moving, unlike the Sears catalogs. Crazy.
Shania Twain and Kathy Ireland were my first crushes
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Having been a little kid in the 1960s, I'm constantly on the lookout for smugglers and quicksand.
Quicksand can be anywhere. I'm looking out for snakes everywhere
I was four, a whole génération of québécois still know 48 years later, what Passe-Carreau doing thé cat is.
Snarf snarf!
oh speed.
trixie.
oh speed.
trixie.
oh speed.
chim chim.
what!
what?
Could also be that those kinks already exists in our minds undiscovered and is what creates the draw toward these particular shows in the first place.
Though, most people here are talking about crushes which is a different thing. Personally I really stuggle to draw a line from a kink I have to a show I watched in childhood.
Apparently, "kink", "fetish", and "things I like in a slightly sexual way, or even just obsess over" all mean the same thing now. Oh, and "obsess" is another such word.
This is one reason it's so hard to communicate clearly.
Man, communication is hard.
You can say something and someone else interprets it, and they make all the noises to suggest that they understand what you said, but it's very difficult to be certain that you're both thinking the same thing. All too often the same words mean something very different to people.
People also use words more loosely in some contexts and more strictly in others. Like the expressions you mentioned could all basically be synonyms in most contexts, but if you were talking to a sexual partner or a sex therapist, you'd probably want to be more exact with the words you use.
But here's the issue, how do you know how exact someone is being when they're talking to you? If you're guessing at their level of precision, then you're only guessing at their actual meaning. Problematic.
a lot of people also just like being upset and deliberately misinterpreting you for the dramatic high it gives them. especially about something as emotionally charged as sex.
just look at 'body count' and how people react to that. my body count makes me a total prude to some people, and a sex-addicted freak to others. and often people weaponize these things to shame and control others and are themselves often massive hyprocites about their own and other people's sexual behavior.
To me the irony is always the people who bang 100s of people claiming they can't be judged negatively for that, any anyone who does is a loser virgin incel... because apparently it's cool to shame people who don't have as much sex as they do. same with 'kink shaming' nobody kink shames more than the people who go around claiming you shouldn't kink shame anyone.
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Not a kink in any way, but my fascination in age regression stories certainly came from the cartoons I watched, new and old at the time. Whether a plot point of the episode or just a gag.
JLU? Kids stuff
KND? Operations Fountain, Cable TV, amd Grow Up
Tiny Toons? School dance episode
BTBB? The Shazam family & Dr. Sivana episode
MlaaTR? Good Old Sheldon
I could go on, but I think that's enough.
Fucking totally spies, man
Rule 34 as a journey into self awareness.
Some of mine were there even before any media influence whatsoever. It probably helps with discovery, sure. But to me, they seem to be entirely innate.
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I listened to a thing from a sex psychologist ages ago who talked about this. She said there was a connection between the developing arousal (sexual) and arousal (general emotional) that forms during the transition from childhood to adolescence, so there is commonly a connection formed between something the then-child has strong emotions toward, positive or negative, so a person can develop a sexual fixation on something beloved (mommy/daddy is perfect love personified. Dinosaurs are so frigging cool. etc.) or terrifying. (Mommy/daddy is mad. The monster is going to eat me all up. etc.)
that's a bunch of Freudian bullshit. Freud's theories are only popular because they make for stupid dramatic nonsense beliefs like this that sound so clear and obvious to the layperson.
I loved Transformers as a kid, doesn't mean I want to fuck robots or cars. Maybe for someone it does, but none of this is universal or even reliably generalizable.
Almost nothing is universalizable or generalizable. Theories are maps. Assuming the map describes all territories is an individual error.
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Weirdly, whenever the thing I like now (or stuff that could be compared to it anyway, since obviously the intent of the authors of those movies and shows was different from that of people making fetish art) would come up in tv and movies when I was a kid, I actually found it scary to a degree most other scary scenes didnt. And the second-oldest dream I can still remember having from when I was a kid was a nightmare involving it. Clearly at some point during or after puberty my brain did a 180 on that but since I dont remember the subject ever coming up in anything I watched during my teens, I cant pinpoint exactly when that was.
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Not a show, but midna in twilight princess 😅
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