I was four, a whole génération of québécois still know 48 years later, what Passe-Carreau doing thé cat is.
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.)
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.
Rule 34 as a journey into self awareness.
Don’t remind me.
I’m sure I don’t know what you mean… oh, wait
xena .
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.
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?
She was the head of my class, if you know what I mean…
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)
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.
You have a kink for the power of friendship?
And knowing is half the battle.
Snarf snarf!
Not a show, but midna in twilight princess 😅
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.
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.
That would explain the porn stars poping ballons i once saw.
