When I was a child, maybe 5 or 6, I was pretty kinkily into tied up women, boots, leather, etc. I don't know that I can say that it was sexual per se, but I was definitely enthralled by thoughts or images of these things. As a man in my mid-30's now, I find these same things don't interest me anymore. I've often wondered about what changed for me and don't have an answer. I'm wondering if a) it's common for children that young to be attracted to sexual things even before they really know what sex is, and b) assuming that what we're attracted to is largely out of our control, is it common for someone's fetishistic attractions (for lack of a better term) to just go away?
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When I was a child, maybe 5 or 6, I was pretty kinkily into tied up women, boots, leather, etc. I don't know that I can say that it was sexual per se, but I was definitely enthralled by thoughts or images of these things. As a man in my mid-30's now, I find these same things don't interest me anymore. I've often wondered about what changed for me and don't have an answer. I'm wondering if a) it's common for children that young to be attracted to sexual things even before they really know what sex is, and b) assuming that what we're attracted to is largely out of our control, is it common for someone's fetishistic attractions (for lack of a better term) to just go away?
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