The fetish in the past

[Heathcliff]

3 hours ago, Joal 555 said:

I can totally relate to this. It was the first sneeze fetish related thing I found on the internet too.

I remember what an amazing experience it was to read the thoughts of someone who so clearly expressed some of the feelings that I had.

It can be very moving and personal to read something where someone from the other side of the world basically articulates your thoughts, and puts a name to it.

I didn't feel it was wrong, but I had the sense it wasn't normal. But reading that, and seeing other websites, I came round to the idea that I had a fetish that wasn't common, but wasn't unnatural either. And it was later when I discovered forums that I realised the sneeze fetish community was a good deal nicer than some other fetish communities might be.

[Niceguy]

On 5/9/2020 at 6:52 PM, haymaker said:

The next incredible moment arrived shortly after I got my first computer around July 1998 and found 'Diary of a sneeze Fetishist'  During the next 3 days I must have read it 15 times and probably shed a tear, not something I do very often. 

Most of the names from that time are inactive now. I'm probably the oldest active member around. Ah well

Oh, yeah! I remember that one too! The name anyway. I really don't remeber what the content was like, or the layout of the page. (Whereas I can remember SG, SFO and ToS very clearly.)

But, hey, *fist-bump* for us oldies, huh?

[Niceguy]

On 5/9/2020 at 6:52 PM, haymaker said:

The next incredible moment arrived shortly after I got my first computer around July 1998 and found 'Diary of a sneeze Fetishist'  During the next 3 days I must have read it 15 times and probably shed a tear, not something I do very often. 

Most of the names from that time are inactive now. I'm probably the oldest active member around. Ah well

Oh, yeah! I remember that one too! The name anyway. I really don't remeber what the content was like, or the layout of the page. (Whereas I can remember SG, SFO and ToS very clearly.)

But, hey, *fist-bump* for us oldies, huh?

[BillyS]

If I had been born 200 years ago I would have been constantly excited and turned on by all the wet "ha chh" type sneezes. I have already established that people from rural poorer areas have those type of feminine sneezes and society was essentially rural and bucolic 2 centuries ago and more. I wonder. We're there any people who had sneeze, nose etc fetishes then? Hmm. 

[Travel]

I do find myself wondering if there were sneeze fetishists back then as well. Clothing plays a big part in my kink, so I do like to imagine scenarios set in the 19th century for example. 

[Likesn]

I remember when I found out about some of the old sites (like TOS and TG's Realm) and how happy I was. One of the sites which I was most excited to find was "Gallery of the Sneezes". I really liked the artwork posted there. It's a shame that it hasn't been active in forever.

[Saimou]

On 5/3/2020 at 12:24 PM, Joal 555 said:

I was born in 1964, so much of my life has been pre internet.

I didn't. I had no idea that other people felt like I did and I had no way of finding out. With hindsight, I can see that it was unlikely that I was the only person in the world like this, but it kind of felt like it at the time.

There was no way of finding the kind of content we have today. Occasionally, a character would sneeze on a TV show or in a film and then I would have to wait a year or more for the show/film to be repeated to get the chance to see it again. This was before the ability to record things, so when I eventually got my first video recorder, that was an exciting moment.

In the main, just someone rubbing their nose on TV was about as much as you could hope for in those days. I remember a music video being played on a UK show called Top Of The Pops where one of the singers cupped her hands round her nose and mouth (which appeals to me because some people sneeze like that) and then hoping the video would be played again in subsequent weeks so i could see it for a second time. It was another age and of course it seems so long ago (because it was).

I will therefore forever be grateful for what we have now.

 

On 5/3/2020 at 1:50 PM, NoV said:

Like having something terribly special and unique! Before I turned 18 I was sure i was the only person in the world who had this fetish - although I didn't even think of it as a fetish, more like a thing that was tied inseparably to my sexuality, and therefore not to be talked about with anyone! 

What content!?  I used to create my own content through drawings and stories that I hid away in my room. Sometimes sneezes would turn up at random on TV or in films - usually embarrassingly when you were watching with your parents. Plus I developed a pretty good fantasy imagination, and an encyclopedic selection of memories of great sneezes I had witnessed irl.

The first time I realized I was not the only one with the fetish was aged 18 when I first started going on the internet (I gather this will seem crazy to those young 'uns). I discovered what was then described as a Sneezing Web Ring while sat in a crappy little computer room in my first year of university. The revelation hit me like a sledgehammer. However, when I look back I do feel that the now comparative wealth of content has made me somewhat lazy - exposure to too much of anything can take the shine off things I guess. Sometimes I miss those teenage days; the lone sneeze fetishist against the world, creating my own fantasies and content because of course, I was and would be the only one   

Thanks for starting this topic @Travel - I enjoyed the memories

My sentiments, exactly. I was born in 1992, though, but I also discovered I wasn’t alone in the age of 18 (though there were some incidents that made me wonder even before that).

 

On 5/3/2020 at 5:18 AM, Travel said:

How did you find content and how did you connect with other people with the fetish?

I mostly found content from TV programs and (comic) books with GREAT luck. As for connecting with other fetishists, that seemed like an analytical impossibility, as I was pretty certain that I was alone (or there were like, maybe 5 other fetishists) on the planet. Interesting topic, Travel .

[Travel]

Thank you, @Saimou !

[Raven]

On 5/2/2020 at 7:18 PM, Travel said:

For those of you who were around before the 2000s and knew about your fetish before, what was it like to have it? How did you find content and how did you connect with other people with the fetish? If you know someone who was in this situation back then and you can share their experiences, feel free! 

I had a lot of the experience that other folks have described. For me, my interest in sneezing extends back as far as I can remember. Books, TV shows, comics, and cartoons with sneezing in them were my only sources of anything. We had an encyclopedia set that actually had an entry for sneezing that included three consecutive pictures of a man sneezing and that was something I came back to over and over. I also had a book called Ah-Choo, which is about an elephant who keep sneezing due to a flower allergy. I kept that book in my room for a long time, even as a teenager. I hid it under my mattress, but became afraid that my mom might find it and wonder why I was hiding it, so I eventually put it back on the bookcase, even though I knew that that would risk it being given away, since I wasn't a kid anymore and surely my parents wouldn't see any point in keeping something that they would have every right to assume I wouldn't want anymore. 

I only ever drew a few pictures here and there. I had this character of a sheriff in the Old West who had a big nose and kept sneezing from allergies, but I would always erase the drawings as soon as I was done because I was terrified of someone finding them. Like a lot of folks here I mostly just assumed that I was the only one who felt this way about sneezing, but I did actually wonder here and there if I really was the only one. I remember once coming close to asking my mom about it, but deciding against it. Boy am I glad I didn't do that! But still, my thoughts lingered here and there on the idea that I might not be the only one, but also it wasn't exactly something I could go around asking people.

Then I got a laptop as a high school graduation present, and typed "sneeze" and "sneezing" into the search engine and found Sneezing Girls and Tarot of Sneezing. What's funny is that at first I rejected the label of being a sneeze fetishist, because I found a lot of adult content on those sites and I simply was not ready for that. It took a little while to accept that that's what this was. (I'm not actually sure how long it took me. It felt like years at the time, but looking back at the timeline of events, it was probably actually only a few months.)

[RB]

20 hours ago, Raven said:

Then I got a laptop as a high school graduation present, and typed "sneeze" and "sneezing" into the search engine and found Sneezing Girls and Tarot of Sneezing. What's funny is that at first I rejected the label of being a sneeze fetishist, because I found a lot of adult content on those sites and I simply was not ready for that. It took a little while to accept that that's what this was. (I'm not actually sure how long it took me. It felt like years at the time, but looking back at the timeline of events, it was probably actually only a few months.)

For a very long time there would be noticeable upticks in new members after gift giving seasons, as people got new computers or their own computer for the first time. That has tailed off, I suspect because smart phones are the new gateway and they tend to be gotten throughout the year more than computers used to be. Just a hunch. 

[Saimou]

On 6/22/2020 at 10:31 PM, Travel said:

Thank you, @Saimou !

You’re very much welcome @Travel.

[Clark Kent]

This is a great topic as it is one I can fully relate too! I imagine I'll be repeating a great deal of what has been written but it goes to show that many of us have been on the same related journey. 

I also was utterly convinced i had malfunctioned in some way and was certainly the only person on Earth liking what I did. It was never displayed anywhere as being remotely 'normal' or mainstream so i automatically knew to keep it to myself and manage it my own way. 

Growing up content was fully limited to books and films - so basically written or acted and you either had to find a way to rent the film or wait for it to appear on one of the 4 or 5 channels again ....apart from of course the golden source of genuine observations that had to burned into the memory as there was no way of adding to favourites or replaying. 

My defining moment when at University around 1997 ish there were PCs to use in the library, i found myself there late at night with a screen nobody could eyeball and very few others around I typed into a  the excite search engine - sneeze and low and behold there was a result.... sneezing girls....safe to say I had to double take.... and below that diary of a sneeze fetishist. I hadn't even considered the word fetish but this was a huge breakthrough. I became an active member of the community as it was back then and then ended up deciding that owning my own PC was more important than it used to be! This was very much a luxury but a game changer. 

As time has moved and tech advanced we are in a very privileged position where what i always wanted but imagined to be impossible....actually I believed even if the tech was advanced there would be no content as only i wanted it..... is freely available. In every way 24hrs a day anywhere we are. 

Now i probably take it for granted a little but I'm still deep down grateful for both what we have available, the people who source and share material, this community with some lovely people and that from where i started the difference is unimaginable. 

This was very cathartic and therapeutic to recall the golden moment. Having this fetish has been a constant source of enjoyment and I'm v grateful to have it and would not change it for anything.....I also wouldn't go back to the old days of having no content! 

 

[RedVelvetHeart]

I echo what most people said...totally thought I was alone, and “content” could literally be looking up “cold”, “sneeze” or “sniffle” in the dictionary! In the late 90s I read a Savage Love (by Dan Savage) column where someone with a random kink wrote in and asked “am I the only one who feels this way?” Dan said in this day and age, kinksters just need to look up their thing on the internet. You are not the only one, he said, I guarantee it. This kind of blew my mind. Could there be others, I thought, and could I actually find them? I was in my late 20s but pretty much computer illiterate. I had a friend who knew I had a kink but not what it was, and she let me use her computer and even showed me how to clear the history afterwards, and she left me alone. I first searched for cold fetish, because that’s more like it for me, and was disappointed. Then I tried sneeze fetish, and the heavens opened and the angels sang! I was not alone! And there was CONTENT!!!!! I fondly remember SFO, and Tarot of Sneezing. I actually bought a computer! I mean I needed to get with the times anyway but really my fetish was what got me to do it. Do you remember the sound of the dial up modem???? Oh, good times.

i wrote Dan Savage a thank you letter when I was (briefly) dating another fetishist I found online. He printed it!

[NoV]

18 hours ago, superimmunegirl said:

Do you remember the sound of the dial up modem???? Oh, good times.

Definitely  I also remember putting a pillow over it to muffle the sound so my parents wouldn't know I was going on the internet late at night  

 

 

[Saimou]

On 6/26/2020 at 1:26 AM, NoV said:

Definitely  I also remember putting a pillow over it to muffle the sound so my parents wouldn't know I was going on the internet late at night  

 

 

Oh, yeah! Those were, indeed, the days. 

[peach_princess]

On 6/24/2020 at 10:23 PM, superimmunegirl said:

totally thought I was alone, and “content” could literally be looking up “cold”, “sneeze” or “sniffle” in the dictionary! 

I was born in late 90s, but I didn't find anything online until I was like 16-18. I totally remember finding all variations of the word "sneeze" in my native language dictionary, and then finding the translation to English. It's kinda embarrassing, but just thinking about these words was enough content 😂

[Roza]

I wonder to what extent fetishes have popped up or at least became more widespread with the sexual revolution... Do you think this could be the case? Like, through some form of desensitization to "normal stuff" once they were un-demonized? Similar to the porn addiction theory: the more porn you watch, the weirder stuff you need to get by. 

But, on the other hand, that's a theory a bit difficult to justify, given that fetishes are already existent in childhood!

[peach_princess]

@Roza I remember reading in some thread on the forum that a fetish might originate from a random association the brain makes while developing sexuality. I actually agree with it a lot judging by my own experience in childhood. However, I can't deny that people are curious creatures: we always want more, bigger and crazier 😂 I don't think the desire to try some weirder stuff can make somebody a fetishist, but it might become their kink (?)..

Edited July 4, 2020 by peach_princess

[RB]

On 7/4/2020 at 1:55 AM, peach_princess said:

I don't think the desire to try some weirder stuff can make somebody a fetishist, but it might become their kink (?)..

Well said! I think you’re very much on to something. There’s a fine line between fetish and kink it seems. There’s definitely some sort of feedback loop that gets started and amplified over time. Especially since many of us remember having a pre-puberty affinity towards sneezing that couldn’t have had anything to do with sex. 

[Travel]

On 7/3/2020 at 6:03 PM, Roza said:

I wonder to what extent fetishes have popped up or at least became more widespread with the sexual revolution... Do you think this could be the case? Like, through some form of desensitization to "normal stuff" once they were un-demonized? Similar to the porn addiction theory: the more porn you watch, the weirder stuff you need to get by. 

But, on the other hand, that's a theory a bit difficult to justify, given that fetishes are already existent in childhood!

I think they were possibly more widespread. Humans always seem to have had kinky stuff going on all the way to the Roman Empire, the Greeks, etc. I think a lot of it became repressed over time and social norms, but there's always been something going on in people's bedrooms. 

[rammus]

I remember really enjoying the Scooby Doo movie with Isla Fisher (great acting btw). Bought the DVD under the pretext of being a Scooby Doo fan. Great content!

[Saimou]

On 5/12/2023 at 4:53 PM, Jess Starseed1111 said:

I think if YouTube wasn’t around.. I would never have known that the sneeze fetish existed as it wasn’t something I would have googled immediately.. I was not into the internet growing up.. even as a teenager I didn’t care about it. I’ve always been an Old soul.. more into the days before technology lool It wasn’t until I was 22 that I started to be online. So really 16 years ago nearly. Once I found out that there was others I was like Woow but by then I was had already told my ex about what I liked… but again when I told him I thought it was just me… being weird… but he thought it was cute and wanted to know why I liked it lol 
 

 

I relate to that, 100%. I’ve always been an old soul, as well. Also; during my early childhood, in the 1990’s, the Internet wasn’t prevalent, anyway. Moreover, I grew up in a micronation, called: ”The Forest”, where even reading the Wikipedia, without Party surveillance, was a crime that could incur either a corporal punishment or a ”Paskasanktio” because it was seen as being chock-full of Western propaganda that could corrupt the weak-minded individuals.