what shaped your sexuality?

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What crucial images/ stories stuck in your memory?

Disney's Peter Pan

Gerard Reve novels "Prick Up Your Ears" where they all go to Morocco

Curly haired Boy in the first year of Highschool

the rape-scene in Fassbinder's Querelle almost made me go into priesthood

"I Feel Love" (classic)

fahion-mags

The Smiths record sleeves

Jean Cocteau films

The brown coloured girl in Second year Highschool (it was the last time!)

Time's up, have to go to work now, complete your list!

― preraphaelittle me, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Gerard Reve novels (famous dutch novelist, who went from dark existentionalist to fairy tale camp novels about disobediet circusboys)

AND

"prick up Your Ears" where they all have fun in Morocco

― preraphaelittle me, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Aged 7
Dad left to go up north, and alot of men hung arround asking if htey could help
Aged 9
Elder Fluxen who was tall and dark and handsome
Aged 12-14
SJSA
Aged 18 Elder Luke
Aged 19
Excommed for Luke

Media Ginsbergs Howl
Disneys Pinnochio
The Illustration on Nephi in the Book of Mormon
Saint Sebastion in Jansons
The Dukes of Hazzard and The Waltons

― anthony, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sniffing solvents & listening to eurodisco

― unknown or illegal user, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

when i was 30

― unknown or illegal user, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A book called 'Airship' which I read when I was about nine. It was my brother's. I nicked it off his shelf. It had some shagging in it. WOOHOO!

― Nick Southall, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sexy people.

― queenoftheharpies, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

earliest: a lady doing a striptease on stage in a technicolour fifties film. dallas: first time i saw a proper smooch. judy blume filled in the rest.

― nickie, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is it harder for straight people to answer this?

If so is it because the answer is EVERYTHING. Or is it to be looked at the other way, ie non straight people see their sexuality as something more............important (i wish i could think of a better word but i cant).

― Ronan, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://mactonnies.com/femalien.jpg

― chaki, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

WELL? Sorry I just need some intellectual stimulation.

― Ronan, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

pissing in MT's mouth as he tried to suck my 8 yr old dick

the luscious red lips of Rocky Horror Picture Show opening on the Drive in Screen, me in the back seat of car, aged 3 and at last in love.

the high notes of Staying Alive

more recently - jacques brel, lou reed, nina simone and harry potter

― Queen Don't you point those squiggly things at G, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree with Ronan.

― N., Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was hoping you'd be agreeing with Queen G.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Glad to hear it.

― Ronan, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the first issue of Marvel Illustrated
parents' friends' brunette daughter (hence the preference for brits)
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - "Blood Sugar Sex Magic" (shudder)
Madonna

― Dave M., Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

REBECCA DEMORNAY IN "RISKY BUSINESS"

THE BABYSITTER, WHEN I WAS 10 SHE WAS 14 AND I USED TO WATCH HER SWIM IN MY POOL FROM MY BEDROOM.

― Chris, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This sketch in a Benny Hill show, one evening when I was 7 or 8. Benny Hill kept annoying this attractive young woman at a bus stop, and she got so angry that she turned into the She-Hulk, ripping off all her clothes and then embarking on one of Hill's famous chases. I will never forget the sight of that woman's breasts growing and ripping trough her T-shirt.

― The All-Electric Christopher Lyons Video Show, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ghost stories

all my fifth and sixth grade fantasy books: chronicles of narnia, dealing with dragons series, howl's moving castle, mists of avalon, arthur rex, once & future king.

amadeus & velvet goldmine

the princess bride

ships and sailor stories

zachary gray in madeleine l'engle's books about the Austins

the boy in ninth grade who was chivalrous

― Maria, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The boys in junior high school. In 1980, we wore our jeans (and cords!) tight. Real tight. Hair parted down the middle. Fleece- lined denim jackets. Oh yeah; shorts were short. Real short.

― Sean, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.toobossy.com/Images/robert.GIF

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0004/images/vikin gs.jpg

http://www.vex.net/~paulmac/elton/images/19760300_mag. jpg

http://jamesbond007.net/Images/smirnoff2.jpg

― Arthur, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I learned everything from what my cousins told me

― Chupa-Cabras, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.unseenuni.freeserve.co.uk/Destroyer_2.jpg

― mark s, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but mark, where's the funfur? (or perhaps it's better i don't ask.)

― mitch lastnamewithheld, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mitch: It's a man in a suit. And I'm sure that mark wouldn't post it unless he knew that man was deliciously furry.

― Graham, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

suit but no tie!!

― mark s, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Music videos by Blondie or Fleetwood Mac (i.e. Stevie Nicks)

Winona Ryder in Heathers

Manda Rin in Bis' very first NME shoot

just for starters

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

whatever it was, it messed up

― Ron, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://faculty.ucr.edu/~bolton/J152F/graphics/mbaraface.jpg

"The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Book 4 of Paradise Lost
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Heart Of Darkness

― Ess Kay, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Seems to me there is some heavy heavy selection (/wishful thinking) on this thread.
Yeah I'd love to say my sexuality was shaped by the poems of WH Auden, Rimbaud, & Ntozake Shange; clean white y-fronts on beautiful 13 year olds of both genders; that seductive overalls-and-tshirted dyke electrician who came round to fix my wiring; the cute computernerd who pumped up my bike tyres in my bedroom on a hot summer day; Dame Darcy comics; Del Lagrace Volcano photos; and thorns on rosebushes, but unfortunately my father's stupid hetero boring porn mag collection was probably the biggest shaper. [My stuffed doggy Spotty that I had since birth probably played a part too].

― haloist, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

p.s. I am not a plushyphile but if you are, don't worry, there's nothing wrong with it!

― haloist, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

arrgh maybe that's not true about the biggest shaper being the lame-o porn, I mean, I'm not attracted to women or men as they appear in playboy etcetera (yes I know it's het but there is a big stereotyped/idealised type of man who "appears" in this het porn, the viewer or like in the sex experience letters etc) - this is such a complex question though I mean there's so many different levels to consider it on - sociological, sensual, ?

― haloist, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

okay I have calmed down a bit now I see the claryfying question What crucial images/ stories stuck in your memory?

still, I have plenty of awful offputting images that probably very much affected my sexuality.

― haloist, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haloist did you see my original thread? (warning: many pictures, none of them porny)

― mark s, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

― Tim, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Let's try that again:

http://www.getmusic.com/microsites/britney/ images/brit_bio.jpg

http://www.planetout.com/images/products/ videos/wildreeds.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/ 0886773520.01._PE_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

http://www.buffy.com/images/photo/ photo_sm_slayer_2.jpg

http://www.panmacmillan.com/features/rimbaud/ Images/rimbaudyellow.gif

― Tim, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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