Have you ever had that one “defining moment” in your youth that made your realize our little secret a little bit more complicated than what you thought?

[starstorm00]

Hi, all...

I’ve been a longtime silent reader of the forum and just created a new account. For some reason this year (probably due to general loneliness) as a 26 year old male, have I felt the urge to discuss our “similar proclivities”, if you will, and join the forum proper *tsk tsk* 😜 It’s nice to meet you!

Do you yourself ever remember a — or rather, THE — moment before you became of age that you started to realize this thing wasn’t just some awkward attachment, and that you started to get turned on by it? If you’re interested in a short read, I’d like to share mine. 

 

It was my freshman year of high school, circa 2009. I was in the middle of 2nd and 3rd period in the morning, walking down the stairs to go across the school for my science class. I remember wearing my backpack as well as a soft, fleece jacket with the school logo on it because mornings were quite chilly where I grew up. I had a few textbooks and my multipurpose three-ring binder in my hands.

Anyway, as I was walking down the stairs, I felt a pretty potent sneeze coming on. Now, this was around the time where I would purposely hold my breath to stop my sneezes, especially around strangers, as well as my family due to being too young to understand and/or because of a mental block. Suffice it to say, this not something that I suffer from now as an adult, as whenever I feel the urge to sneeze, I let it rip; receiving and dishing out “bless you’s” is a total turn on for me (which is a secret I plan on taking to the grave by the way, haha).

Back to the story: as I was headed downstairs I successfully held my breath enough to stop the first sneeze. But I felt another one coming immediately after. I was not able to force it away, but I was able to silently stifle it. Mind you, new people are all around me walking to get to class; and as a student at a specialty tech school and being from a small town, I virtually knew nobody. It was a very nervous environment for me, let alone being embroiled into this incident. After stifling the second sneeze, I knew I made a grave mistake. It was here that the third one was coming, whether I liked it or not.

At this point, I was walking out of the corridor at the bottom of the stairs and into the hallway. I can close my eyes and visualize it, almost 13 years later. I literally sneezed so hard that I dropped everything I was carrying and put my hand on the right-side wall for support as it actually made me somewhat lightheaded. Of course, two upperclassmen had to be walking into the intersection I was at from an adjacent hallway. I don’t remember their names, but I remember one of those boys having an extremely fresh haircut, good smelling cologne, a light 5 o’clock shadow, a gray dress shirt tucked into black skinny jeans with a brown studded belt. He was a handsome looking dude. He look shocked, because you have to remember, I’m coming out of the stairwell; and from their point of view, all you see is this new kid coming out of nowhere and damn near sneezing his head off.

I explicitly remember him saying “Bless You, buddy!” as I immediately turned red in the face. Luckily for me there were a set if bathrooms right there, so I quickly grabbed my school stuff off the floor, darted in there as fast as I could, washed my face, caught my breath, and tried to get on with my day. I remember going to my science class being so paranoid that I thought everybody was looking at me. It was brutal, I almost wanted to walk off school property.

It was NOT one of my best days, but after looking back at it, I’d definitely say it was one of if not THE defining moment in my youth in which I knew something else entirely was going on here with my sexuality.

Feel free to share yours! I’m all ears, no judgement! I’m happy to be here!

Also, sorry if this isn’t in the right section. Feel free to move if needed; I figured the post spanned enough topics to be umbrellaed under the general title.

[Demosthenes]

Mostly just the realization that when I was searching for "sneeze" topics on the internet, my heart was pounding and my breathing heavy.  Similarly to when I was aroused.  So that definitely clued me in that my "fascination" with sneezing was actually arousal. 

[deadaccount]

I grew up in a restrictive religious household that made me believe that if I so much as looked lustfully at a shirtless man, I would go to Hell. So, I didn't realize that the feeling I got when I heard or saw someone sneeze was me being aroused; I thought it was a normal thing that happened to everyone. I didn't realize I had a fetish until I saw a Family Guy episode, of all things, where Stewie describes a feeling of having a fetish that was very similar to what I was feeling towards sneezing.

[Absolute1]

I remember a time in my youth around my middle school years when I had a teacher whom I thought was quite attractive even at that age, but never really acknowledged her further other than that. But one day, I recall she had bad allergies and was sniffling throughout the class period and occasionally sneezing as well. The moment of realization for me was when I observed the rest of my class and then thought about how on edge I felt (and probably looked) compared to the rest of my classmates. At that point I definitely realized what exactly made me so different🤣

[Stormer235]

I had always had this fascination with sneezing when I was younger, but I hadn't really connected it to anything sexual. I sometimes found myself looking for sneezing videos online though (luckily, I never found anything too graphic for my young eyes.) Once I learned what exactly a fetish was, it wasn't a difficult connection to make.

[BlessMeAchoo]

I don't think I can go in detail for this one, I think I was 13 or 14 y.o. Doing a thing everyone was doing around this age, with lets say someone by my side (which was one year younger). He asking be how it felt like as a girl. At this moment I realized, that the answer : It's like sneezing was not for everyone.

 

I always had a fixation with sneezes, finding it cute, wanting to know about my classmates allergies, writing stories woth people sneezing, etc. I just didn't know ot was sexual until this situation 🥲

[Moose]

For me it was probably one day in the 7th or 8th grade, I had been fascinated with sneezes as many of you also were from a very young age but on this particular day I decided to YouTube “slow motion sneezes” and fell headfirst into the rabbit hole of YouTube sneeze content in about 2013. Naturally I found myself turned on and honestly didn’t think much of it for some reason? I knew I was then attracted to sneezing and I knew most people probably didn’t feel the same and I didn’t start to realize how strange (for lack of a better word) that was until a couple years later.