
"Hi, ho, hi, ho.... into Snow White we go...."
I am not quite sure if even fetish, fantasy, and kinky sex are not spared by bedtime stories and fairy tales. I do believe though that boys and girls get their early education on looks, hotness, and desirability from the characters in fairy tales. Masculinity and femininity are so well defined that these kids could relate and resemble themselves to. They also learn images they consider nasty, ugly, and scary from the tales. I think there is a psycholinguistic connection between witch and bitch. Witches in bedtime stories are mean and they could transform themselves into howling, rabid black dogs. Fair becoming fairy also has the same folk etymology since there are no ugly, dark, and masculine-looking fairies in fairy tales.
I am not surprised why even in Africa the Cinderella in an African folktale is light-skinned. In Asia, women spend a lot for skin whitening pills, cream and cosmetic procedures, and Asian men prefer fair-skinned partners. I don't think this phenomenon is a remnant of a colonial past. It is obviously the effect of people's early notion of what is beautiful. Fairy tales are the culprit why white skin has become a standard for beauty and a sexual fetish. From skin, the fetishism moves onto pussy. Some prefer shaved pussies. Pubes are just too dark. They then check if the labial color is pinkish or dark brown. They prefer the former. Other men are picky when it comes to nipples too. They salivate for pinkish and light-colored areolas. Nipple size is also probed by these meticulous fetishists.
I have wondered even then why female lead characters in fairy tales always have long hair, and they are petite. It is hard to tell if these physical descriptions have influenced men who have fetishes for long hair and women's body size. I have met both of these fetishists before. I initially thought they called me for my long hair so they could grab and pull my head when I would blow them. They were not that rough at all. Most of them just brushed, touched, and stroked my hair while they jerked off. Others wanted me to play their balls with my hair. I did tickle a man's ass with the ends of my hair once. I still don't get it though how long hair becomes such a turn on for these men. I also think that some men want petite women because they are easy to toss, turn, and tumble in bed, and their pussies are tighter and smaller due to the size of their pelvic bones.
Even women's preference for muscles, hairless, smooth skin, and chiseled square jaws, I believe, is influenced by what they have known early then about men from fairy tales. If you look at the way these male lead characters has been illustrated on fairy tale books, it seems there were already gyms, personal trainers, and work out regimen then. If you read their character descriptions, they sound like Brad Pitt or Leonardo di Caprio gracing the People Magazine's hot list. I have wondered too why these characters have been depicted to have soft skin. European or Caucasian men are not naturally smooth without electrolysis, laser hair removal, and waxing. They have also been written about as experts in handling swords, riding horses, and romancing with women. These are good combination of talents, indeed. These men have been made to appear heroic, brave, and chivalrous. Women get wet with those qualities in a man.
My interest in fairy tales is not just to remember my childhood and relive past memories but to understand the way I think, feel, and act as an adult. I always go back to my childhood when I want to analyze my certain behavior on anything by understanding its early development when I was a kid. Since I was in my teens, my fascination towards sexual fantasy, fetish, and kinky sex has replaced fairy tales and bedtime stories. I have evolved into an open-minded, thinking person who wants to understand the complexities of human mind, sex, and desire. I have become intrigued by people who are into adult alternative sex. It's not that I find pleasure or pain derived from such unconventional way of satisfying one's urge orgasmic. I just find these people worthy of a second look before I dismiss their sexual activities as sick, degenerate, and bizarre. I want to know what made them do such strange acts of pleasuring, how did they start, and what influenced them.
Lately, I have been reading BDSM erotica and spent time on fantasy chats on Yahoo and AOL. I have been realizing too that the knowledge I have had so far from those materials and through the interactive avenue of sharing information on line does not really seem new, shocking, or unfamiliar to me. It is like my deja vu in fetish, strange desire, and kinky sex. I thought hard why I felt such familiarity like I have already known them. I went back to my childhood days. I found out my early exposure to subtle alternative sexual fantasy that has stayed in my mind subconsciously. I could trace it back to my mother's bedtime stories and fairy tales.
Cinderella
When I first heard of a foot and shoe fetish, I thought of Cinderella's glass slippers. I imagined how her bare foot tiptoed until she reached her carriage. It must be cute and uncomfortable. I thought the prince was a foot and shoe fetishist. I found that part of glass slippers inconsistent with the rest of the story. Her carriage, horses, and gown and jewelry vanished except her shoe. I could not find any reason for such literary blunder. Had it been her handkerchief with her scent, I would not have thought that there was some hint of foot and shoe fetish in Cinderella's story.
When my mother read Cinderella's story to us, I was so disheartened when she did all the chores by herself, and her stepmother and stepsisters were cruel to her. I felt like I wanted to tell her to report them to the cops or protest. I already knew human rights then. What they did to her was gross slavery. When I reread her story again in high school for our creative writing class, I did feel that Cinderella was a passive sadomasochistic slave. If she were into BDSM, what she did was a double whammy a fetish. I also thought of her fairy godmother as her madam pimping her out.
Beauty and the Beast
I did not do much thinking about the story of Belle and her beast. It was clear to me then that this fairy tale was a blatant case of zoophilia or bestiality. When I heard about a show in a red district in Bangkok, Thailand, where a hot woman got fucked by a dog on stage in front of mostly American male tourists, I was sad. It did not shock me though. Considering what I knew about Asian economy and the romance between a fair lady and a scary beast in a fairy tale, I did not question the veracity of what I heard about the Thai dog sex show. I also read too many sex ads online where people looked for cubs and bears. They were not looking to have sex with these animals. They wanted to hook up with hairy young and older men.
I saw extreme cases of body modification on TV. There was a man who transformed himself into a cat through a full-body tattoo and with some implanted foreign objects under his brows. There was also a couple who wanted themselves tattoed to look like black-spotted leopards. They had nylon whiskers too and scary-looking contact lenses. After watching them explain about their horrible fantasy, I did wonder why they did such strange, permanent, painful changes in their looks. I thought it was a reverse of the story of transformation of the beast in the fairy tale. Maybe they just wanted to shock people or make a radical change or statement. Had they been real beasts with the same intellect and fetish to be extremely different they had, like Belle's beast, they would want to become human.
Sleeping Beauty
Believe it or not, I chatted with a couple of guys who had a sleep-related fetish. They wanted to touch or kiss sleeping women. I forgot the official paraphilic name of this fetish. I also read some medical papers on sleep sex, where sleepwalkers engaged in sex. After our chats, where they told me that they preferred young, beautiful women, I instantly thought of Sleeping Beauty. I also asked them if their fantasy was a crime under assault and rape. They only wanted to do this to a person they knew. Both of them did it before to their girlfriends. When the latter woke up, they fucked of course. I found it very similar to the prince who woke up the sleeping princess with a kiss. They then got married, fucked, and lived happily ever after.
The most bizarre erotic stories I encountered were that of necrophilia. I heard about men who desecrated and forced themselves into dead bodies of young beautiful women not just out of lust and desperate need to fuck. Their urge and desire bordered between pity and romance. These fetishists wished these women were still alive. They also had this deep feeling that these women were too pretty and young to be dead. There were cases about husbands who did not bury their wives and continued sleeping with them in the same bed. I wonder why most cases of necrophilia were perpetrated by men. Is it because a dead man's cock is stiffly flacid, and won't get functionally hard for a woman who is into this kind of fantasy? Is it also because there is no male Sleeping Beauty lurking in the threshold of someone's subconscious.
There were also men who had sex with comatose patients. Known cases of this kind of criminal offense were mostly committed by male caregivers who fell in love to their patients. After watching a Pedro Almodovar's film about a woman in a coma who got pregnant in a hospice care facility and her male nurse who fell in love to her, Sleeping Beauty came up in my mind. I left the theater asking myself what made her wake up if the story indeed happened. Was it the prince's soft kiss or raging hard on?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
I saw and read too many sexually explicit cartoons and stories about Snow White. Most of them showed and presented her in a wild orgy with the seven dwarfs. There are even porn videos by a porn actress and seven small men. I tried to understand why pornographers thought of a sexual orgy in their twisted interpretation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. I went back to my organizational psychology book, and reread a chapter on group dynamics. A woman in a company of men even in a bible study or in a religious convent could have the same fate as Snow White's in pornography. Had Mary Magdalene been considered an apostle, she too would be caricatured as a Christian whore with twelve saintly fuckers.
I chatted with men and women on line who had a fantasy of having sex with midgets. I thought, that time, they were just smart, horny fuckers. Besides being easy to throw around in weight and size, midgets or small people did not have to kneel or bend down to give them head or eat them out. I was wrong. I found out later through my sincere questions needy of their honest answers that these fetishists lusting for midgets were latent pedophiles. Due to existing criminal laws, they opted for grown up small people than innocent children to control their illegal urge. When I saw the comic illustration above, I did not think twice that the Story of Snow White could also bring out twisted interpretation related to pedophilia. It has partly convinced me that maybe bedtime stories and fairy tales have an effect also on people's wild imaginations, kinky curiousities, outrageously lustful preferences, strange fantasies, and bizarre desires.
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