• Fallibilist@feddit.uk
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    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.

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      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.

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        I was a little too old to get excited by a split second flash by the time this came out so I never checked, but did they edit her nipple out or leave it?

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    I had no idea rooting for the hero would give me such a kink to do the right thing.

    Oh yeah and team work. That’s hot.

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    the author’s thinly disguised fetish that can fit in a pg thing transferring to people like a shitty scp

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    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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      Same honestly, it’s rather strange how I remember having mine at an early age, and that’s when I didn’t have any internet access of the sort, no sexual trauma or encounters.

      I had freebasics when I was younger, but long after having my tastes. At the time it only allowed you to browse specific sites without images, one of them being Wikipedia and I remember thinking I must have been a reincarnation of either Sade or Masoch. Strange thoughts!

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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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      Apparently the signals for arousal and fear can get cross-wired in your brain. It wasn’t fear for me, but I remember when I was a hormonal teen, I would play video games and get so fucking frustrated is have to crank one out to feel better. Maybe that’s the same thing. Maybe I was just weird.

      Also apparently that’s why taking a date to a horror movie or amusement park can get you laid. Or maybe it’s all bullshit.