As Mr Shycouple's story illustrates, most fetishes have their roots in the sexual awakening we experience in our formative childhood years. Much like some newborn animals accept the first creature they see as their mother, we imprint these early turn-ons and generally keep them for life, although we are mostly unaware of their origins.
It would seem that the foot fetish was prevalent among men of past generations due to the conservative dress code imposed on women in those days, which left mainly the feet as the most visually accessible part of her anatomy, and thus formed the focus of many a young male's fantasies.
This would explain why you have trouble finding a foot-worshipper nowadays, PiB, you may need to visit a retirement home, look for guys in wheelchairs complaining about a bad back, heehee!
Also, a lot of women, whether they admit it or not, are turned on by spanking. This has its roots in early experiences of arousal while being spanked by their father, the first male in their life. Probably also imprints the sex=naughty connection in the female mind. However I am sure this is also a dying trend due to the current political incorrectness of child discipline!
Lee, I am sure you found the origins of hubby's voyeuristic predilection in some childhood event where he got to watch some adults having fun, I know this is where I got mine!
In general, we tend to underestimate the importance of the experiences of our formative years, and life and society encourages us in trivializing them. They make us what we are, what we like and dislike, and what turns us on, and it's only called a fetish when society in general finds it weird or unacceptable, like the man who could only become aroused while insects crawled all over his body. As a child during his first self-pleasuring experience, ants had crawled all over him as he reached orgasm, and his mind forever tied his pleasure to that sensation.
For anybody seeking more enlightenment on this subject, I highly recommend the book 'The Erotic Mind' by Jack Morin.
So long
In spite of the fact that we are in the 21st century, societal conditioning still prevails, so in general, overtly sexpositive men are considered 'studs', whereas overtly sexpositive women are regarded as 'whores'. To the extent that even in surveys, girls tend to under-estimate their diy frequency and guys tend to over-estimate. This also creates the situation where most men regard diy as a hobby and most women regard their clit as a stress-relief button.
The male only needs simple visual queues, like picturing the hot new girl at work or some pics on the net, to get a hard-on and the desire to 'rub one out', female mental arousal requires more complex fantasies, as evidenced by the fact that erotic fiction readers are almost exclusively women.
Time is a factor, guys can spank their monkey in the time it take to take a dump in the toilet at work, most ladies are slower and require surroundings more conducive to erotic pleasure.
A horny single girl can go down to the local pub and get laid tonite if she's not too fussy, the socially awkward single guy may as well save on petrol, pop in that 'Buttman' dvd and beat himself to sleep.
So that's why men, as claimed by statisticians, solo more than women.
And as to the ins and outs of self-pleasure per se', that's a whole story in itself!
the central scrutinizer
@SDMR: Fact or perception, what's the difference, the end result is the same!
@Lee: Thanks for the award, have fashioned a large facsimily(?) for Gobblinggirl to spank me with when she ties me up!
the director of recreational activities
Thanks PiB, I am somewhat of a masochist so I may just try POT! Also, there is an interesting book, 'Come again and again', by Frank Reedstream, a South African no less, which describes a method of achieving multiple orgasms without ejaculation during self-pleasure (hate that m-word). I feel that once this technique, which from my recollection consists mainly of controlled breathing, is learned and mastered during DIY, it should be quite easy to have multiple O's during actual intercourse without having to undergo the kind of torture that PiB has in mind, tho I bet SHE loves doing it to her willing victims! If anyone out there is interested I am willing to summarize his technique here.
the central scrutinizer
Fact 1: HIV infection is more widespread in the black community.
Fact 2: White guys don't like to have black guys around because they have bigger dicks, and because white girls fantasize about being fucked by them.
the central scrutinizer
Please, put it here on the forum for everyone, educate us!
PS miss your tastefully sexy pics on the gallery and look forward to more!
I get what you're saying but can you be more specific? Give us some examples of tasteful man-pics off the gallery, I personally (and I think that goes for most guys) don't have a clue what women could possibly find attractive in terms of an AVERAGE man's body.
Severely intrigued
The arrogance of youth is refreshing.
Rather than going into a lengthy monologue about why guys send dickpics, which I could, lets turn this around and ask the question: What sort of 'guy-pics' do the members on this site want to see? (besides face-pics, due to privacy concerns)
response invited
While I am not by any means defending Stamina's dissing his lady by stating that sex with her is becoming boring, we need to realize that the male of the species is hard-wired to seek novelty. Even experiments with lab-rats, and observation of bonobo apes (our closest primate genetic ancestors) has shown the following: Presented with a receptive female, the male will bang her a couple of times and then lie back, congratulate himself on a job well done and start thinking of other things besides sex (cricket scores?). He has lost interest! Conventional thinking tends to rationalize this in terms of his energy depletion due to semen expenditure and the requirement for a refractory period but NO! Bring on a DIFFERENT receptive female and the male is quickly ready to jump back into the saddle for another session. Meanwhile, female 1 is just warmed up and is fantasizing about a queue of able males to take her further up towards the peak of the orgasmic mountain. We are all hardwired to be non-monogamous sluts (and I mean that in a sex-positive way).
Irrelevant as always