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General Discussion about Catfights / Re: Fetishes hereditary?
« Last post by Badprofessor on Today at 12:50:11 PM »As a geneticist by profession, I certainly think fetishes, like sexual orientation, are hard-wired and determined mainly by your genes. This is why they often appear pretty early- there are a lot of men here, like me, who were first aroused by catfights right around the start of puberty. I had no traumatic experiences as a kid that might have led me into this, was raised by very responsible and caring parents, and had no exposure to violence or fighting during my upbringing, yet I have a raging catfight fetish and have had since I was about 10. For sure I was born this way.
That does not mean it is necessarily inherited in the popular sense of being passed down from parent to child. As far as I know, neither of my parents had the fetish (although they might have hidden it). But I got genes from each of them that clearly predisposed me to it. There is not one gene that affects sexual orientation or predisposition to a fetish- there are likely hundreds. That's why you often have families in which one of the offspring is gay and others are straight. But for sure there is a strong genetic component.
Of course, the environment contributes too. A tendency towards alcoholism can be genetically determined, but if you are never exposed to alcohol, you won't become an alcoholic. In my case, the internet and access to catfight video and chat completely broke down my resistance!
That does not mean it is necessarily inherited in the popular sense of being passed down from parent to child. As far as I know, neither of my parents had the fetish (although they might have hidden it). But I got genes from each of them that clearly predisposed me to it. There is not one gene that affects sexual orientation or predisposition to a fetish- there are likely hundreds. That's why you often have families in which one of the offspring is gay and others are straight. But for sure there is a strong genetic component.
Of course, the environment contributes too. A tendency towards alcoholism can be genetically determined, but if you are never exposed to alcohol, you won't become an alcoholic. In my case, the internet and access to catfight video and chat completely broke down my resistance!
