wjbaines wrote:I agree with Kishin and Dr. Robo above (only caveat: not sure if ANY fetish will /can ever gain "mainstream acceptability" in our society, though ASFR has farther to go than many...even if only because it is largely unnoticed).
There were some interesting/funny comments...
Did I detect a few closet ASFRians who were trying to make chuckles to conceal their fascination/arousal? Or am I just hoping that we have more comrades out their than this site's membership tally tells us? Wonder if some of us should post on Digg, let'em know we're here. Or would that be courting some sort of disaster? It's not my call.
Either way, that thread deserves a glance. Good catch, Bart!
Is it me, or have the number of reports just been going up and up every month lately? Yea, my brethren, the Age of ASFR...IS AT HAND! BEHOLD!
Welllll..................
As one of the bona-fide "Greybeards" here, I'd like to emphasize an excellent point made above -
only because it is largely unnoticed.
Our little "fetish" has been amazingly stealthy, with regards to it's notoriety (or in a broader term, it's "mainstream" acceptability); mainly because there hasn't been too much sensationalism associated with our normal pursuit of the interest - unlike say, the foot-fetishers, the bodily-function devotee`s, the "spy/Webcam-in-the-ladie's-restroom" crowd, the boob lovers, the leg lovers, ad infinitum.
Humanizing, or more precisely "feminizing" machines has been around as long as machines themselves have - how many cars, boats, planes, trains, and even space vehicles have been either actually named in the feminine gender {the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II comes to mind}, or are at least referred to as "she?"
Man looks at objects he has made as beautiful works of art, and automatically attributes feminine qualities to them. He has been conditioned to do so by Nature/God - because women were designed to attract a male's attention, and capture his fancy.
The design obviously worked, no?
Following this line of thinking, I'll say that us hardcore fembot-lovers will never be able to join the mainstream - because we already ARE the mainstream, in a way........ And we DON'T need sensationalism to Live Long and Prosper, if you know what I mean!!
I'm kind of smugly pleased about that fact.
damn, I need to watch this movie).
Interesting points, but I don't know if the area of this "fetish" will ever truly accepted by populous -- but then again I don't know if we would want this to become part of the mainstream. 