In big, glowing neon letters. this title doesn’t muck around. So I’ll just go ahead and throw ‘fairly NSFW’ out there.
Let this symbol signify all public decency, visual exploitability and fuel my eternal feud with Zeta Gundam all at the same time.
A tad bit too late now, but I blame the Canadian gods of the internet, Bell and Rogers, as well as the gods of my life, my landlords.
To imagine ourselves in the dimension of our favorite flatlanders – to rationalize why we could possibly ever be sexually attracted to them. Few weren’t motivated to contemplate their place in our plane or the sexual mechanics of our subculture by 2DT’s post. Certainly the 2D vs. 3D discussion has been prevalent seemingly since planar conception – but the curveball here for us is the sexual notions. Ultimately, this is interplanar sex, a concept not only astounding, but illustrative of the mind.
There’s not much more to elaborate about on the dimensional level; our place in this has already been thoroughly debated, and I’m hardly the astrophysicist I need to be in order to contribute anything new or worthwhile. Neither can I argue from a chemical standpoint about things that have been said before. Being no qualified ponderer on the matter, I can only give you my personal experiences. However, I will have some implications for the future for you to ponder on, as I want to hear your feedback and your variations. But more on that later.
2DT mentioned growth; the effect this awkward interplanar relationship has on a person’s development. Well girls and boys, this is the epitome of my childhood.
It’s so symbolic! ‘Mangerotica’ sounds especially reminiscent of skin diseases caused by parasitic mites.
As definitive of pop culture as Starcraft, as nostalgic and revelational as Blue’s Clues, back when that Steve guy was still around. I saw this up for grabs at an event I attended a while ago, and was ecstatic – it’s exactly the fact that it’s translated and western integrated that it’s such a fascinating piece to me now. A few pulled strings afterwards, it was in my hands.
The Bondage Fairies are hardcore, yes, but it doesn’t stop there. BDSM, bestiality, toys, the works (It actually even contains small educational shorts about animal biology and anatomy. Commendable!). To expose a contemporary developing mind to this world would be an irresistible prospect of social science, as much so as it is illegal. As such, I inadvertently made myself a fascinating social experiment; and while it’s still unclear what the effects the Bondage Fairies had on me were, you sure can say a lot about the end result.
Digressing a bit, but man, look how old these are! Untouched, right out of the shrink wrap and the back already looks like this. Why, it’s almost as if it’s already been used before… Not in hell. It’s worn from all the passerbys’ curiosities. That’s it.
In my opinion though, the synopses on the back of these are less than savory, and sort of sell it off as just another adult book for the lonely. Who even says ‘bawdy’ or ‘bombshell’ anymore? ‘Blistering lesbian action’ sounds painful. Try reading this out with the infomercial voice without laughing.
If we look at this according to Freudian stages (you really can’t make these connections without mentioning the guy), one could say that the Bondage Fairies would obviously be very crippling to the establishment of a child in the phallic stage in Freud’s model of psychosexual development. Gender identity and the child’s understanding of her or his relationship with her or his parents would be severely compromised – but I wasn’t that young when I embarked on my Bondage Fairy escapade. I would’ve fallen more into the early genital stage, having read this during a period where one develops one’s sexual identity; and so it all comes full circle.
My fascination with the Bondage Fairies was probably due to the tendencies that arise at this age, a curiosity in the opposite sex that was for me, for better or for worse, satisfied by this manga. If you think about it, this is the perfect age to succumb to the sexual aspects of the flatlander illusion; at a tender age, the young mind is less familiar, less conditioned by sexually enticing themes or symbols, and thus absorbs them like a sponge – no precepts make the attribution of believable flatlander sexuality (because you have to admit that ‘Kondom’ is a pretty good artist) to our plane’s sexuality much easier, jumpstarting Azuma Hiroki’s classical conditioning of the matter.
Also, to push it a little, a mind of ten is less spatially developed than a mind of say, sixteen, further making the flatlander realm seem more relatable. Of course, this would only really be applicable to infants still building their spatial senses, but exposing toddlers to the Bondage Fairies is a little too scandalous even for myself.
I was not responsible for any of the scratches you see on these scans. I treat them as antiques.
And here comes the omnipresent nature vs. nurture debate. This classical conditioning, is it completely plausible in all situations? Is it really just a matter of repeated suggestion? What is being suggested here is that sexual enticement can be attributed to anything with enough repetition. If so, then wouldn’t one be able to condition oneself to be appealed by any fetish, even to become homosexual?
Without taking the conversation into ‘are we born homosexual or do we become homosexual?’, I believe that there is at least some degree of personal nature, at birth or at the foundations about birth, in fetishes.
“Bondage Fairy creator Kondom wields the pen like a true master, his ability to delineate the creatures of the forest is ‘noting’ short of astounding” Now that’s more like it. This thing retailed for thirty bucks back then! And they even included a ‘case in point’, just in case the potential buyer wasn’t scared yet. To his defense though, he is pretty good at drawing animals…
Just a matter of faith. I know nothing of neural networks, but the notion of being able to attribute any concept to any other concept is simply too alien, too unsettling.
At the very least though, I think they can’t possibly be entirely a matter of conditioning. ‘Extreme’ fetishes such as guro or scat can be said to generally embody social or moral taboo or extremity, that augments the similar emotions arising from the taboo or extremities of sex. Now it would seem as if it were a personal matter as to what one is enticed by. Now the only question is, is the gaining of this taste one’s ability to successfully attribute one type of taboo to another? If that were true, there would only be two methods to do this: one, that a person conditions themselves to repeatedly make this attribution to escalating levels of success, or two, that the person was at birth already capable of this attribution. I think the truth leans more towards the latter. Then there could be a matter of probability; that during one’s stages of development where one’s identity and understanding of the world is not yet fully developed, a traumatic experience causes lasting effect that would explain sexual deviancy.
This was the only page I could find that passed two criteria: that it was not explicit, and that it was at a page that I could risk bending the book to scan. Have much fun calling her ‘Puh-fill’.
So then, what happens once a tender mind succumbs to the flatlander sexual illusion? Am I unknowingly severely psychologically compromised? Personally, I believe I developed in no crippling way. I’ll go ahead and call myself different from my peers, but only as different as everybody is from everybody else. I was probably already part of an age group not as susceptible to trauma regarding drastic social reassessment, having already gained strong enough precepts to prevent mental collapse (even if I were just noticing that females grew breasts). I never developed a fairy fetish. It would seem as if test results prove negative. Still, I’m diagnosing myself again, which is never truly conclusive. Perhaps you should be the judge.
And with my purchase actually came a complimentary issue of some magazine filled with random serials of similar theme, the first of which featured was Yamatogawa! Freaking Witchcraft! Another one of those distinctive art styles you can’t keep your eyes off of.
I believe the flatlander illusion is maintained by a degree of enough artistic beauty (like ‘natural’ symmetry) and spatial realism (shading, perspective, perceived depth) to fool the mind into bridging the spatial gap between the 2nd and 3rd dimensions. How our minds perceive things always seems more a matter of trickery than reality – making our brains ‘think’ what we’re seeing, hearing, tasting or feel look, sound, taste or feel that way. Which is suitable; our senses evolved from our predecessors in a manner which allows us to perceive just enough to survive. This would mean though that flatlanders’ abilities to seduce us with sexual symbols not even of the same plane are all a matter survival instinct, the need to procreate, and the urge to rid ourselves of the hormonic sensations that trouble us and force us to seek procreation. If so, then would that not mean that the next step in human evolution, grown hand-in-hand with technology and birth control, actually be physically incapable of feeling arousal at ‘hentai’?
Perhaps, in an even more interesting twist, we may be met with Aldous Huxley’s future in Brave New World, in which case flatlander sexuality may be eliminated entirely, due to recreational sex becoming a cultural mainstay and losing its taboo connotations – or maybe it may become propagated, in a society where sex would probably exist in many more societally accepted forms. Well, your guess is better than mine; what will happen?
I’ve asked you about your sexual pedigree before, so let’s not dwell on that. What do you think the relationship fetishes have with nature and nurture is? What will sexual connotation mean, say, five hundred years from now? Which will come first, the end of our subculture, or the end of the flatlander infatuation? Neither? Both? What are your thoughts?
Ningyo
P.S. This post borders very closely to the limits of what I’m willing to disclose and write about. If that makes anybody feel any better.
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June 8th, 2010 at 6:42 am
fuck. I have to read this. By all means!
June 8th, 2010 at 9:10 am
You are proposing something extremely ominous at the end there, Ningyo. The elimination of the ability to feel arousal at images is akin to the loss of the ability to fantasize. Is that not a key component of abstract thought (a defining characteristic of human beings)? I don’t believe evolution is capable of placing specific boarders on the human mind without undermining the integrity of the whole. In other words, the day when the inhabitants of earth cease to be able to get off on the Bondage Faeries is the day when they cease to be human.
As for Brave New World, both the conscious of the citizens and the society they live in is highly regulated and controlled. When you take away the soma and the controllers, I am willing to bet that even in a future society where sex is completely indiscriminate, the human mind would continue to seek the seductive taboo, being the greedy creatures that human beings are.
Also, WHOA??? There was a chapter of Witchcraft in that cheap-looking magazine? Damnnit, now I totally regret not getting a piece of my questionable childhood as well.
June 8th, 2010 at 10:44 am
“Blistering lesbian action”
I don’t approve of the back cover either.
Interplanar sexual fetish. What a nice ring that has. I think you also had a similar post on development of sexual fetishes. For me, I’m from the school of thought that believes fetishes are largely nature. Anyways, I think as long as there is anime, there will be people into hentai. People have the most unimaginable fetishes, and anime as a sexual object is actually much more conventional.
That said… Bondage Fairies is not at all conventional. I always thought I’m pretty open minded in terms of sex, but even I’m a bit grossed out by the grasshopper. I hate bugs.
June 8th, 2010 at 10:58 am
…. >_< really…. must you call upon h-material for posts T_T
Go play Peace-Walker!
June 9th, 2010 at 10:14 am
You have an actual copy of Witchcraft? If you are a gentleman and a scholar.
June 10th, 2010 at 1:14 am
I’d say that basically outside of the “social norm” or actually any natural norm to procreate instinctively, is a “fetish”. It’s especially so if it arouses you. But you’ll note that in each fetish, there is some sort of symbolic relationship to the actual natural procreating act.
I think it’s the psychology of “enhanced” satisfaction of certain instinctive needs in procreation that bring about a fetish. “Whatever gets you off. Whatever floats your boat.” Rule 34.
2D form is a more natural extension of procreation as it is a closer representation to reality, and as such is more “generally accepted” if you will (or easier to interpret/understand), than say a balloon fetish.
If Chobits were real, you’d see a huge decline of birth rates. The sexual satisfaction can be authentically brought, without the need of a real partner. But the only thing preventing that sort of thing from happening is indeed social norms. “Having sex with your computer” would sound “fetish” in our current society, but as society evolves, maybe not so much. I mean, back then, it was taboo to even bare a shoulder. Nowadays, women constantly wears skimpy clothes.
June 10th, 2010 at 4:04 am
I can’t say you’re straying off the beaten path here when you talked about the early influence of flatlander deviance. But true enough, no matter how spatially underdeveloped the mind is, it would continue to absorb and perceive information in accordance to what he experiences, regardless of how the person feels. This reaches us in a different kind of way, and you can gladly throw spatial realism out of the window for that.
June 10th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Sexual arousal is obviously nothing new. However, in our information age, the main product is thought. With what is essentially millions upon millions of ideas being able to permeate the minds of a greater and greater amount of people every day, it comes as no surprise that sexual deviance is abundant. Not surprisingly it is also the internet where most kids nowadays see their first tit. With more people at earlier ages being exposed to this, experimenting past the worn path into fetishes at earlier ages such as anal and BDSM is bound to occur. Experimenting earlier means more experimenting in general, which leads to more extreme fetishes.
However, with regards to the 2D, 2D is essentially emulation of real life scenarios. However, the key difference is that in 2D one can insert all sorts of deviations that would otherwise be impossible in real life. This still keeps some integrity of real life, while idealizing specific features. I also believe that the appeal of 2D grows by similar means of 3D taboo except on a much larger spectrum. With H-Material, you can start to see some really messed up stuff. Examples of minor changes include idealized facial features, idealized curvature and perfect personality. With people exploring further and further with idealized characters, you start getting into taboo H-Material such as additional body parts, inter-species relationships, guro, birthing etc etc.
Yes, I do also mean to say that people who dislike H-Material COULD like it if given a chance. In your average Maxim, those girls are shooped a million times over. This is essentially the same as perfecting women in H-Manga. I believe it is an issue of social stigma as to why people condition themselves to be repulsed at drawings of sex.
tl;dr
Information age is speeding up the process through which we sexually mature past vanilla sex. 2D is appealing because it perfects 3D features. 2D then evolves much like 3D does except much faster into much more questionable territory.
Also goddamn, Yamatogawa? Nice find.
June 11th, 2010 at 9:48 am
Oh my, what a captivating title ^^
I immediately remembered bondage fairies. Probably one of the first h-materials i ever saw. But you got the originals, whoa
I bet that never even one original pages had ever landed in Belgium :D
I had some troubles to understand some parts of your post here and i apologize :p
In particular the question at the end. It would be nice if you could rephrase it to help me :) (puppy eyes)
I think deviant stuffs like that are needed to help people evade sometimes and expel some impulses they would not expel otherwise.
A human need to fulfill a certain amount of sexual desire and it’s dangerous to restrain yourself from fulfilling them.
But porn and h-materials are just temporary replacement from real physical contact.
We all need cuddles from a person you love and we all need to be loved.
Sex for me cannot be separated from feelings. Maybe i’m old-fashioned ^^
June 12th, 2010 at 12:14 am
It’s tricky to pin down how much internet pornography and the 2-D complex influence our sexualities, because the people we’re talking about, the people we’re frankly interested in, are geeks. We geeks already have a barrel of issues with fantasy/reality in general.
But I will say this: I do think that my relationships with people and my ability to relate to women have suffered because of how easy it is to turn to these alternatives. It doesn’t mean I want to give them up, but I recognize that I have to fight what amounts to animal training.
June 12th, 2010 at 3:31 am
Godarnit guys, all this sex-talk is making me want to prowl. Guess I’ll raid the Touhou imageboards after this. You know which one.
@klux
Should be easy enough to find BF right now floating about the interwebs.
@Chag
Oh man Chags, we’ve been venturing into very dark territory in history lately; study of the Roman Empire has led us to talk about the end of our own very similar western civilization. The proof seems solid and the end seems nigh. Imagine the next dark ages, in modern times? Competing with your neighbors for food and water, murder and treachery, ransacked shops, ruin, chaos. BBL sure won’t have time to write about future prospects of psychosexual development then, eh?
But yes, exactly, our next stage in evolution could only be called that because they would have evolved to a point where they’d be too genetically dissimilar to produce fertile offspring with Homo sapiens sapiens. They would really be ‘inhuman’, in every literal sense of the word.
That’ll probably be so in reality, should we ever carry out Huxley’s future (which we’re fulfilling already). In the explicit context of BNW though I don’t think that would happen; weren’t citizens by nature developed to not break free of social norms? While being edited in the hatcheries?
But ya, Yamatogawa. Glasses, man. It’s all about the meganekko. I’ve finally located the primary fetish in my life, all after that fateful day when we didn’t manage to take a photo of that one girl.
@Yi
Right! When you word it in a certain way, some human quirks become downright wacky. I did; but that one was a more personal questioning, while this one’s more on the prospect of the future, and the actual nitty-gritty of reptilian brain action. Ideally I’d like to agree with you and say they’re mostly nature as well. I’m still skeptical until someone can give me some solid evidence, but for now the notion of our minds being so flaccid we can condition ourselves to do anything bothers me.
Heh, BF is in no way conventional at all. I’m just glad it doesn’t touch guro or defecation (proper, fetishistic defecation, because there is defecation), or else I might’ve really been irrevocably scarred.
I hate bugs and invertebrates in general, but for some reason when they’re made human-sized and personified with primate sexual organs, they become less disturbing. That’s wrong in many ways as well.
@martin
Dude, I hate to ask you this, but did you even read the post? I’m not pulling straws for random topics, this is a contemporary matter regarding the development of individuals in our highly sexually oriented subculture that I just couldn’t address.
@Shin
But of course, we are of one kin, most illustrious brother. Fine art can only be defined by fine people.
@radiant
Yes, that’s about summary of what I was getting at. I notice that in some fetishes, where the extremity is only to a degree of greater stimulation (like sadomasochism), and even the attribution of extremities to the similar feelings that arrive out of the extremity of sex, but I feel that’s still a shaky definition of such fetishes as guro or scat or… birth related antics. How would guro relate to the natural procreating act? The slaying of a rival that could threaten your sexual partner? How about scat?
You’re right about 2D being a closer extension to sexuality, which is why I mentioned the art form has maintain a degree of enough realism. But an extension nonetheless, eh? Seems I at least have forgotten that anime sexuality bears a lot of similarities with how we define fetishes.
Haha, birthrates are declining just by condoms being real. Apparently the district school board is shutting down schools like crazy right now because we’re running out of kids to teach… O, Canada. Oh, world.
Marshall McLuhan says ‘the medium is the message’. I’d like to add a bit to that and guess that ‘the medium is the culture’. I can’t possibly believe television and the internet have nothing but the most to do with societal development in the last sixty years, and that the need to facilitate their evolution isn’t what’s causing things to get skimpier and more scandalous.
@Shance
You’ll have to elaborate for lil’ ol’ me. True how at an age of any possible spatial underdevelopment the mind will be rapidly absorbing information; but if this is underdevelopment at say the Phallic stage’s timeframe (just using it as a reference of age, not actually throwing him into all this right now), then you’ll have to expect the base of the child’s experiences, especially those of the sexual order, to be equally small. Of course, if you mean a child of like ten, then I can see the mind reaching conclusions of sexual connotation on its own; as I said, I really was just forcing that point to throw more into the mixing pot. Is that what you mean though when you say ‘the person feels’? It’s a bit too ambiguous a statement for me to grasp in that context; do you mean the child’s state of mind, or her willingness to assume this two dimensional notion of sexuality?
@Jianyan
Nothing new indeed my friend. Rather, I would say that the information age is culprit of ingenuity and individuality of the era. In the lovable book I’m currently reading a la Neil Postman, which I’m certainly getting inspired by, he writes about how the mediums of the age numb us, filling us with meaningless decontextualized notions. He’s conservative to a degree, but he’s not the first to complain of it, and you can see some truth in what they say. I’d like to suggest that the need to further commercialize the mediums is what caused the modern attitude towards change and deviance, meaning this abundance of deviance is only credit to a small amount of powerful individuals. As of Kick-Ass I think we’ve said every word that mustn’t be said on television over a thousand times, right? Monkey see, monkey do. This has also made it less reprehensible, so I believe that it’s because deviance won’t be severely punished that it’s gaining popularity (Of course, Christianity did it even when being a Christian could get you quartered or olive press’d, but we’ll never figure THAT out). This may seem to be pertaining deviance in general, but the sexual scandals of a few individuals are propagated through the media. Thus it spreads.
Longer time for experimentation leading to more experimentation and deeper (pardon me) experimentation sounds like sound common sense and logic though. Hey, I wouldn’t know. *thumbs up*
When you make it lead up to it like that, it does make sense; increased exposure, circumvention throughout the information age, people come to find 2D awwwwright after all. Thus an influx of new fans instead of an eventual decrease in one or a few hundred years – fascinating.
I’m TL is right. Or maybe just L, but my reply comments in total are usually much longer than the posts. Not that I’m complaining. You know what would have been really awesome? Kirintei. But meh, can’t have all the good things in life.
@Katsura-chan
Ningyo-brand sensationalism at its best. Reels the readers in… Until they realize there’s no actual material for them ^^;
Ahaha yeah, I was all whoa upon seeing them as well. What a trip to the past. It was like seeing a set of Brave of Gold Goldran toys or something.
Nonsense, no need to be, why apologize? Y’know, I can’t replicate your level of comprehension for any language that isn’t English.
Basically, I’m asking:
1. if you think a person’s fetishistic tastes are decided at birth, or over time as the person comes to experience different things.
2. What you think ‘sexual’ or ‘fetishes’ will mean several hundred years from now,
3. If you think anime and its culture will disappear first in the future, or if sexual two dimensional ideas will first. Or neither, or both.
Well, those were the questions in the last paragraph. There’s a general overlying question about sexual development in general, when paired with ‘hentai’.
Of course, you’re right about what you said there; ultimately it’s not in our coding to be part of an unreciprocal relationship. Meaning right now I’d really like to cuddle Mei- anyhow, less old-fashioned, and more true to how we were made.
@2DT
Well excuse me! I like to conduct myself intelligently, what does it mean to say I’m not definitive of the societal-Joe?
No, I’m not actually taking offense. Maybe it’s just a rude awakening to draw out the ‘geek’ group again; the shallowness of Canadian stereotypes attributing entire Asian tribes to otakudom has probably diluted my idea of that. Geeks.
Now, what does it mean to be a geek – Since we’re not another species, why does the argument have to be seen through tinted lens? Sixty years of cultural divide couldn’t possibly reprogram our biologies?
You’re frighteningly correct with that last part. Here I am, arguing for our humanity when the solution to my problems is the dakimakura of a character I vehemently deny is unreal and unreciprocating. I’ll sooner write a post about how her character appeals to my psychology than discuss this modern day idolatry (because what else is it if it’s unreciprocal).
Oh well. People are overrated.
June 12th, 2010 at 7:40 am
Hmm, while the biological and sociological conditioning has proven to be extremely effective even with the absence of the controllers and soma, as evidenced by Linda, there are others like Bernard and Helmholtz (as well as the rest of the exiled individuals) who do break the mould, serving as testament to the resilience of the human mind. Who knows, in addition to whatever ideological objections they may have, perhaps they also have an affinity to the strange and freaky when it comes to sex like the rest of us.
June 12th, 2010 at 9:59 am
Ok thanks, i got it now. :) Reading and answering you help me to improve my English. You can be really incredible at writing as always ^^
We have all at birth the necessary package of instinct to reproduce and that’s all. It’s only when you at an age of experiencing the pleasure sex procures you want to explore those pleasures deeper.
After that it’s a matter of likeness whatever your fetish is. Of course i don’t talk (only) about some nasty or taboo fetishes :)
I think some of them is the result of a problem during childhood but i don’t mind as long as it don’t harm others or the person himself.
For the future i doubt it to be very different from what we have now. I mean it’s probably going to be more sophisticated technically but the basement will be the same.
We don’t reinvent sexuality or fetishes, we reinvent the way of propagating materials (like stuffs on internet) and the packaging around it.
So basically for me it’s meaning will be the same.
To continue i doubt very deeply that 2d stuffs will disappear one day (because 3D sucks at my opinion lol) and animes cultures won’t disappear also.
They’re going to change, transform and evolve of course but they’ll never disappear completely.
It’s carrying a big role in many people lives in a good way for the most part.
There’s a lot of stuffs i want to see vanishing in hell like European police tv shows :P That would be awesome.
June 12th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
“Now, what does it mean to be a geek – Since we’re not another species, why does the argument have to be seen through tinted lens? Sixty years of cultural divide couldn’t possibly reprogram our biologies?”
No, you’re right; at the end of the day we are human like everybody else. But I believe the body can be trained in all sorts of ways, and geeks are the ones faced with the unique kind of “training” that breaks us into the 2-D complex.
June 15th, 2010 at 11:02 am
[...] I wrote about spatial reality and how it creates the interconnected machinations of the two realms. Ningyo’s post about the early orientation of Mr. Sphere to Flatland. With these facts in hand, it’s time to observe the culture dish that holds them [...]
June 17th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Flatlanders… Do we actually have a new word for 2D now? I like it! Hmmm… So many complicated theories and questions. I’m just gonna wing it…
It’s an eventuality that some kid will find some pr0n on the net and no NetNanny can stop that. It’s a matter of what that kid will do once they’re found. As a kid, I grew up with anime, so I can’t help but be interested in flatlanders. And what if these anime were the only contact I was interested in? And what would happen if I happen to find these particular flatlanders in adult situations? I think it’s about what one grew up with that pushes someone to a particular “fetish”. It’s because of growing up with anime that I seek out hentai. Does that make sense?
I think Bondage Fairies were one of the first For Artistic Purposes materials I found. When I actually learned how to appreciate For Artistic Purposes only… I must’ve found it around the same time when I found the CG collection of a game called Inju. Because of that collection, my tastes somehow leaned towards that way ^^;
June 18th, 2010 at 1:57 am
@Chag
Hope in dystopia, huh… That’s true, those characters did show that. A resilience that allows them to be sexually deviant – oh, how scandalous homo sapiens sapiens are.
@Katsura-chan
Shucks, thanks, a compliment goes a long way. I don’t get em all that much, with how many people I offend :p
Well yeah, that’s Freud’s theory anyhow. Freud is ever only notable; he got the ball rolling, but so many of his ideas were simply ridiculous. He wasn’t very self-conscious either – not sure if that says anything about his studies in psychology, hehe.
Right, while I can’t feel the same about some certain fetishes, I make sure I don’t make any personal attacks. To each their own boat; I’ve some pretty strange quirks myself, after all.
That may be so; I’m inclined to believe fetishes will change as culture changes, and peoples’ ways of thinking change. Just as linguistic relativity exists I can see the passing of some fetishes being impossible due to the divide in culture. You’re right though, I suppose sexuality won’t really change significantly for a long time. Change has become radical, but still not so for core natures.
The same for anime, mm. I won’t talk about my mixing pot again :P
Ahaha! I’d always thought they already phased out… Never hear of it anymore. Then again, I’m only ever spending time in familiar turf.
@2DT
Which means you’re an advocate for the ‘nurture’ side? Well, I’m always inclined to believe it’s a bit of both. Though yes, I’m definitely more comfortable with seeing us as starting at the same point as everyone else ^^;
@rob
Ehehe, it seems to be a gimmicky quantum mechanics term right now. It’s fancy, but yeah, it’s pretty much the word for 2D figures.
Oh man, you remind me of the first time I read Bondage Faries as a wee lad. I had only the vaguest idea what was going on (such concepts as strap-ons eluded me). I only remember that my heart was beating so fast I thought I was about to die. Curious, that.
Of course it makes sense, mm. Yours is a sequenced, constructive theory, logical; there’s probably irregularities in differing personalities and events that occur to the kid, but assuming we all start at square one it’s a sound idea.
Right, I wouldn’t say there are ‘warning signs’, but there are flags before one jumps straight into the flatlander porn. Nothing’s ever immediate.
And well, what don’t we wing in life, right :)?
June 20th, 2010 at 1:17 pm
I totally agree with you. Media and market/social demands are pushing each other into a blindingly fast change (one that I approve of, by the way).
I think the shutting down of schools because we’re running out of kids to teach is an outright lie. When I was in school, you’d get a max of 25 kids in class. Now, it’s going up to 40 kids. The government is cutting funding and using whatever they can use to cover that fact, including manipulating the media (nothing new there).