How did you discover your fetish?

[sneezytwilight]

How did you discover you sneezing fetish, and are there any others? How many years ago? Have you ever got tired then returned? Has anyone found out?

This is just a thread to talk about YOUR fetish. If you feel uncomfotable revealing anythinf, don't! Just curios about others. I want to know if it anything like how mine began.

[Anonymouse]

Like a lot of people here I knew that seeing people sneeze did something weird to me. I remember being as young as three or four and having a dream that my preschool teacher was sneezing and being absolutely fascinated by it. I would hate cartoon characters for sneezing. It was weird because I'd be so afraid that one of my favorite characters would sneeze (like Buttercup in Powerpuff Girls, in the episode where they get sick and her two sisters sneeze). When I turned twelve or thirteen I started to LIKE characters that sneezed more and actually hoped that my favorites would sneeze.

I found out that what I had was a fetish probably when I was sixteen or seventeen. I always knew though that seeing a guy sneeze made me feel really good/happy. People have found out because I'm very open with close friends, so I've told a few of them as well as my current boyfriend, who goes out of his way to sneeze for me and tell me about sneezes I've missed.

I have other little kinks that only turn me on in certain scenarios and with certain people but I feel weird stating them explicitly. They probably show through the details I include in my stories, obs, and artwork though.

Do we get to hear your story? Or are you waiting to hear from others first to see if yours is similar?

[murphy dee]

I'm really not sure when first noticed it exactly, but ever since I was a little kid sneezes used to make me feel funny. It embarrassed me and I was always afraid other people could tell, so I always made it a point to go to the bathroom or talk during a sneezing scene in a tv show or movie. Earliest memory is sitting in daycare when I'm probably 4 or 5, watching Peter Pan with the other kids, and going to hide under a table when Captain Hook gets a cold from being in the water. I wanted to watch it, but I didn't want anyone else to see me watching it.

So I dealt with that in silence until 2003 when I learned that there was such a thing as a sneeze fetish from Something Awful. Then I located this place and the rest is history.

[NoV]

I was very young (4 or 5) when I relaised that sneezing made me feel very uncomfortable. I think this was the precursor to developing the fetish a few years later. I can remember thinking of stories in my head about people sneezing while hiding that made me feel very odd indeed...

[Nova]

I don't know if I can call it "discovering" as much as slowly growing into it and then being able to put a name on it because my vocabulary grew as well. It's difficult to discover something that's always been there So. I've always known that I liked sneezing, some of my earliest memories are sneeze related, and I can't remember ever being shocked or surprised or whatever to be able to label myself "sneeze fetishist" and then find this place.

[KassiePure]

I don't know if I was always attracted to sneezing, but I started noticing it as a turn on around 12 years of age. Back then, I didn't have much a sex drive, so I was a little surprised to see how something normally considered mundane could have such an extreme effect on me. It was also around that time that I started getting attracted to my own gender... my friends and I would hang out a lot at each others' places, be it after school or for a slumber party.

There were plenty of times to see one another sneeze, and back then, I didn't mind if they caught me in the middle of one of my allergy fits. Luckily, my sneezes weren't as bad as far as content is concerned -- that is, spray and mess ^^; Seemed to get worse with age, though...

As I thought more about it, the more I learned what I liked about seeing other people sneezing... until I got curious enough to do some internet research, like I'm pretty sure every fetishist does at one point or another. Unless they lived in a time without computers XD That's actually a curiosity of mine: Were there medieval fetishists, and were they more open about it?

Before I draw a tangent, basically every year that went by and the more mature I became, the more things I liked about women and sneezing. I feel like my fetish has practically no standards, because I'm not very picky about what kinda sneezes I like ^^; Mess, spray, on me, off me, full-blown, stifled, cold, allergy, induced, accidental... I like it all!

[Jorm]

I don't know if I can call it "discovering" as much as slowly growing into it and then being able to put a name on it because my vocabulary grew as well. It's difficult to discover something that's always been there So. I've always known that I liked sneezing, some of my earliest memories are sneeze related, and I can't remember ever being shocked or surprised or whatever to be able to label myself "sneeze fetishist" and then find this place.

This is very much how I feel. It wasn't like I just woke up one day and was like "Woah! I totally dig sneezing!" I've been obsessed with sneezing and even aroused by it for absolutely as long as I can remember and I was always very aware of my attraction it. The only real discovery was that there was a labeled of "fetish" that I could accurately attach to my feelings, which was sort of nice and exciting. To be able to say to myself "Oh hey, this is an established thing that is totally ok and other people feel the same way! Cool!" I do feel like becoming involved in the community I've become more aware of what this fetish means to me and some of the more specifics of what exactly it is that makes me so attracted to sneezing. Perhaps that's the "growing into" that Nova mentioned?

I think I started applying the label of fetish to my feelings when I was somewhere around the 13 or 14 and eventually typed "sneeze fetish" into Google and Voila! Pages and pages of lovely things! This forum I joined in July 2005 according to my account, but I'd been a member a number of yahoo groups prior to that and spent a lot of time of the Tarot of Sneezing site. So, somewhere around 10 years ago I guess is when I, let's say "embraced" my fetish since "discover" isn't really accurate.

[Vetinari]

Unless they lived in a time without computers XD That's actually a curiosity of mine: Were there medieval fetishists, and were they more open about it?

Well I can't answer about medieval times .... I should imagine there were fetishists then but I don't know enough about society to know whether they were open about it. But I grew up in a time without computers, well they existed but were huge things which existed mostly in Nuclear Power stations and places like that.

I grew up, like so many other people, aware that I liked sneezing but not really aware at a young age of what it was. When I was a teenager, I can remember that when I fantasised about anything, it would be about people having colds and being looked after, rather than thinking about kissing or making out, or whatever other people think about when they fancy someone.

I didn't tell anyone about it. I wasn't particularly ashamed, it was just something private that I didn't want to share. I tried to tell my husband about it at some point but clumsily we dropped the ball between us and I ended up not mentioning it again for years. Eventually I found this place. I didn't have internet access until 2004 or so, I can't imagine what it would have been like to have grown up with all this access and freedom to explore that people have now. I suspect things might have ended up rather differently if I had but I have very few regrets.

[KassiePure]

So, somewhere around 10 years ago I guess is when I, let's say "embraced" my fetish since "discover" isn't really accurate.

I like how you said "embraced" -- you knew you always had it, but didn't bother to conduct any research until you were positive you felt a certain way. At least, that's the impression I got... I'm not a philosophy major; I don't know why people think the way they do XD

Were you ever nervous about admitting it to other people, or did you ever think about telling someone that you liked sneezing? I know I mentioned this eariler (or perhaps in a different post in the same section) but I was super-afraid to come out to any of my friends about it, family not with-standing.

I dunno, I guess I'm just curious about how you feel because you seemed to have been so cool about it when you explained how you jumped into fetishism.

[sneezytwilight]

The first thing I would like to say is that in the beginning when I started this I said that if you feel comfortable with the topic DON"T post I meant to say If you don't feel comfortable saying anything don't post. sorry for that horrid statement.

I will tell my story now.

When I was in the 6th grade (2005-2006) I had a strange feeling whenever anyone sneezed. In the 7th grade I realized that there were other people too. This when I searched on Youtube for sneezing clips. I realized then that it's called a fetish. I'm in the 10th grade now and the fetishy feeling is still going strong.

Edited March 12, 2011 by Vetinari

[nolongeractive]

Oh, my 200th post, how exciting! Anyways, I've felt "this way" about sneezing for as long as I can remember pretty much, so I don't know exactly when it began or what spurred it. I can remember wanting to see certain people or cartoon characters sneeze, but I had no idea that it was a fetish or that the way I felt sneezing was unique - in fact, I thought it was something everyone felt slightly intrigued about but didn't discuss, for a while. So I was confused when people would bring it up, and couldn't help but question why they weren't uncomfortable speaking about it. After a while I started to realize that these feelings were unique to my sister and I, as far as I could tell, though I didn't question why. At the same time, I didn't want people to know I felt this way for reasons I couldn't place, so if I would reread certain parts of a book or re-watch certain scenes of movies or TV shows that involved sneezing, I did it as subtly as possible. It wasn't until one day I looked it up online that I found out, and I was like "Wait.. do I have a fetish? Is this what this is?" I couldn't help but feel dirty about it at first, and didn't fully embrace it until just this summer in August.

Edited March 4, 2011 by The Cracked Egg

[Jorm]

So, somewhere around 10 years ago I guess is when I, let's say "embraced" my fetish since "discover" isn't really accurate.

I like how you said "embraced" -- you knew you always had it, but didn't bother to conduct any research until you were positive you felt a certain way. At least, that's the impression I got... I'm not a philosophy major; I don't know why people think the way they do XD

Were you ever nervous about admitting it to other people, or did you ever think about telling someone that you liked sneezing? I know I mentioned this eariler (or perhaps in a different post in the same section) but I was super-afraid to come out to any of my friends about it, family not with-standing.

I dunno, I guess I'm just curious about how you feel because you seemed to have been so cool about it when you explained how you jumped into fetishism.

For the most part I guess I don't really feel any need to tell people how I feel about sneezing. It's not really a relevant fact for the vast majority of people in my life. It doesn't really affect them so I don't feel like it's really any of their business. I have told some people though. I used to be really scared about telling people and how they'd react and it's still not something I'm completely comfortable just throwing out there in conversation, but I think that's probably pretty normal for most people taking about any of their personal sexual preferences. It probably also helps that none of the people I've told have ever reacted badly to the information (most people have found it intriguing and more than one has informed me that it's "cute") and that there are things I've told and had to tell people that are a way bigger deal than telling them that I happen to think sneezes are kinda super hot.

[bangbang]

I've felt this way pretty much forever. My story is pretty much the same as everyone else's - I found out pretty young that sneezing did weird things to me (I remember being in nursery school and wishing I had a tape recorder that picked up and recorded everyone's sneezes. In fact, I still sort of want one of them. )I didn't put the fetish element into actual words until I was a lot older though, as obviously I didn't know what a fetish was until I was in double figures. We never used to have internet, so I googled sneezing in the public library. It was all pretty innocent (wiki articles and stuff) but I would be looking over my shoulder the whole time, with a whole story prepared about a school project in case anyone caught me (luckily they never did, I think I'd have died of embarrasment.)

[Skiffy]

I decided to delve deeper into the fantasy and before I knew it I was getting reallllllly excited and started *ahem* 'enjoying myself'. Needless to say, that was the first time I achieved the big 'O'. Since that time, I've learned to accept and embrace this part of myself. Boy, am I ever glad I did.

Me too, Spoider. When I was a kid, I never thought of this strange sensation I got when people sneezed as a sexual thing. I had the same fascination and embarrassment that many people have mentioned when watching sneezing on TV. Then quite recently, for some reason, I started searching for videos of women sneezing on youtube and finally started to understood what I was feeling. Before then, I was worried that I might be asexual, but now I know that's not true, I'm just weird and kinky

I've never told anyone about my fetish, I'm worried that things would be really awkward between us from then on, especially if that person sneezed

[Niceguy]

How did you discover you sneezing fetish?

"Figured out" might be a more apt way to put it than "discovered." I KNEW about it, I just didn;'t knwo how to put it in context with the rest of my life. I had to figure out why I felt wierd and uncomfortable aroudn all things sneeze-related. But the sexual aspect of it was evident to me from a very young age. The only real "discovery," for me, was that there were so many others. Count me in with the longlist who thought theywere the only ones! But feeling uncomfortable and guilty around sneezing is right there amonst my earliest childhood memories.

and are there any others?

Girls in glasses, but it's nowhere near as strong.

How many years ago?

Age 4 or 5, so... 32-33 years ago?

Have you ever got tired then returned?

Yes. It's not so much that the fetish goes away, but my interest level waxes and wanes. It's been waxing a lot lately.

Has anyone found out?

No one's ever "founf out" but I told DW years ago. Also... I got caught once or twice as a kid trying to induce, usually by snorting dust (I only tried pepper once - that SUCKS. Never again! LOL) bu I don't think my parents thought anything about it, other than it beign a little strange. And... I was kind of a straneg kid, so no bid deal there.

[Peroxide]

I realized something about it when I was four, and I started Googling sneeze-related stuff when I was twelve. Within months, I had discovered this place, and I've (privately) identified as a sneeze-fetishist since I was about 14.

[Rhomberg Rabbit]

Unless they lived in a time without computers XD That's actually a curiosity of mine: Were there medieval fetishists, and were they more open about it?

Well I can't answer about medieval times .... I should imagine there were fetishists then but I don't know enough about society to know whether they were open about it. But I grew up in a time without computers, well they existed but were huge things which existed mostly in Nuclear Power stations and places like that.

I grew up, like so many other people, aware that I liked sneezing but not really aware at a young age of what it was. When I was a teenager, I can remember that when I fantasised about anything, it would be about people having colds and being looked after, rather than thinking about kissing or making out, or whatever other people think about when they fancy someone.

This is my story as well. Except that I was aware of the sexual aspect of it from an early age. Like many others here I thought I was the only one. And I often wondered "what kind of freak am I" when thoughts of kissing or making out or whetever didn't arouse me but imagining someone having an endless sneezing fit did.*

Happiest day of my life[well, one of them] was finding this and other fetish websites; and being able to say "hey, I'm not the only one.

*And I do mean endless

Edited March 15, 2011 by Mayor McSneeze

[Butch]

I didn't recognize my fetish for what it really is.. until the last few years.

All things sneezing really got to me, and the care taking aspect.. I feel like I was BORN that way. I remember that as far back as pre school.

But I hid it from everyone .. for a really long time..like most people here, I thought I was the only one.. I felt like a freak, but in another way, I derived pleasure from keeping it to myself..because I dated guys who had sneezefits and they would complain about their allergies.. while I'd just smile and think, "Is this normal?"

I'm glad I joined the forum..it's nice to know I'm not alone!

[haymaker]

This is my story as well. Except that I was aware of the sexual aspect of it from an early age. Like many others here I thought I was the only one. And I often wondered "what kind of freak am I" when thoughts of kissing or making out or whetever didn't arouse me but imagining someone having an endless sneezing fit did.*

Happiest day of my life[well, one of them] was finding this and other fetish websites; and being able to say "hey, I'm not the only one.

*And I do mean endless

Yep.. that just about says it perfik.

Always wondered how things woulda turned out if I'd have discovered all this aged 22, instead of aged 42.. 36 years of solitary (6-42) ... it takes it toll ..but I suppose if you go back a few generations people like us died without ever knowing... that's sad.

Mod Note: Fixed tags ~Mute

Edited March 20, 2011 by haymaker

[Icee]

ever since i can remember, i've liked sneezing. then i hit puberty, and found this site. i told someone i didn't know very well right after i found out, an they never spoke to me again. the embarrasing part was i wrote it down on paper, and she didn't get it, and she made me read it out loud. in the middle of a public library back then, i didn't know what a fetish was, i figured it was just a liking then i found the definition, and this past winter, i told my 27 year old cousin, because she wouldn't stop pestering me about why i didn't like her husband. (the reason being that i got left in a hotel room with him on a babysitting job and he was hungover, blowing his nose, sneezing, the whole deal. yeah.) it's nice to have someone know, though

[Guest Nurseboy]

I remember calling my little girlfriend one night when I was six. Her mom answered and told me that she couldn't come to the phone because she was washing her hair. Then she'd be going to bed, her mom said, because she was sick with fever and was sneezing her head off. I felt a strange tingly sensation all over. To this day, I'm not exactly sure if it was the talk about sneezing, or fever/sickness, or her being in the bathtub that initially piqued my interest so deeply.