Oh yes, I know.

But I am attempting to keep this thread both within the confines of the AUP – and a sensible discussion of the subjects concerned.

However, in terms of the sort of fetish you mean, my own opinion is that fetishes are learned, in as much as they develop out of an experience or possibly even in reaction to an experience.

[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21788238Saw this on the BBC website and thought of the Sin Bin...[/url

I was just about to post that.



It's succinct, straightforward and really clear.

And backs up everything I said in the OP.

Very good article that. The continuum is undoubtedly the case, as it is with almost every human attribute.

The only (slightly comic) aside is that if the only requirement for a person to be sent to a particular jail is using an alternative gender name and claiming that they always wanted to be of the opposite sex, then jails would be mixed sex in very short order.

"Mr Kray would now like to be known as Ronata and seeks permission to have his collection of clothes and wigs moved to his cell..."