How far back does your TF fetish go?

[rehtlh]

It definitely seems like, for most people, it's an interest that develops from a young age for sure. I, too, bought and read (and loved) Little Pet Shop of Horrors and grew up having TF scenes of any sort in cartoons and movies really sticking with me and not quite knowing why.

Another of my early interests as a kid was the movie Rock-a-Doodle, because the kid turns into a cat and the whole movie just had such a weird vibe to it. Man, that owl was creepy.

[Cowboy5995]

Earliest was a moive called "My Mom's a Werewolf". Continued with a R.L. Stien were cat book.

[personEL]

Twenty years this fall ("Aladdin" and "Gargoyles")...though, thinking about it, it may go back further.

There was an episode of "Darkwing Duck" that introduced Bushroot. He wanted to make a female scientist into a plant creature like himself. At the end, when he was thwarted, I was disappointed that she wasn't changed, but I didn't quite understand why, at the time.

[biohawk84]

Originally Posted by kghost74

I remember Willow being one of my first moments of intrigue with TF.

Then I found Goosebumps "My Hairiest Adventure", Bone Chillers "Little Pet Shop of Horrors" (especially the cover), and the Animorphs book with girl to cat cover...

I remember the old websites too... Werekat's Werecreatures, The Transformation Graphics Archive, etc...

i feel old now lol

Never read any of these books. Do they have any descriptive TF content?

[LeenaAngelWing]

You know what else i find interesting. Usually your first TF experience (whether enjoyable or not) tends to shape your TF preferences.

So for example, my first TF experience, before I knew of anything sexual or whatever, was the April O'Neil wasp TF. From there I saw the Catwoman episode, and several other TFy shows of the time (Street Sharks, Cowboys of Moo Mesa) and as a result, my TF preferences are very far spread. I like everything from spiders to cats, dolphins to snakes, random women with multi-arms to chimerae, and I think it was because the first thing that made me go "WOOOOOAH COOOL" was something nontraditional, like a wasp tf.

That being said I have a lot of friends who are into TF who first got into it via stuff like AWIL or Goosebumps, and while they sometimes adventure into the realm of the weird tfs, they primarily keep to furry mammals like Werewolves and Werecats, and occasionally the bunny or werebear.

I'm curious if this is the same with you. Have the first few tfs that you have experienced really influenced your current TF preferences?

[kittycatmorph]

Originally Posted by biohawk84

Never read any of these books. Do they have any descriptive TF content?

If I do remember correctly, the Animorph books had very detailed transformation scenes. Plus, they were described in such a way that there was no pain involved in the morphing, just uncomfortable stretches here and there. Which probably brings me to what LeenaAngelWing said about how one's first TF experience tends to shape said preferences.

As a result of early exposure to Animorphs and Sheena, I can never seem to enjoy it when a girl is changed against her will and/or is in pain from doing so.

[Tancred]

Gosh! I remember when I was verry young, I asked to someone in my family how a cat do to move it's tail. This question was fascinating me and I was around three our four years old. After that, Rock A Doodle was one of my favorites movies when I was seven years old. After this, it was when I discover sexuality that I found I was attracted to anthro girls and the idea to see a girl turning into an anthropomorphic animal, the discovery of new feelings (like having a tail or new arms or legs, etc.)

I also remember a lot of thing like the Goosebumps books or the six arm saga in spiderman (the animated version). To make it short, it started by the curiosity I had to know how it would feel to have new appendages or to have fur then it move to my sexual attraction to the girls.

[kattphive]

Originally Posted by rehtlh

It definitely seems like, for most people, it's an interest that develops from a young age for sure. I, too, bought and read (and loved) Little Pet Shop of Horrors and grew up having TF scenes of any sort in cartoons and movies really sticking with me and not quite knowing why.

Another of my early interests as a kid was the movie Rock-a-Doodle, because the kid turns into a cat and the whole movie just had such a weird vibe to it. Man, that owl was creepy.

Yeah dude, Rock-a-doodle! I got so jealous at that kid when I was young. Then there was A Troll In Central Park. The Pinoccio didn't do anything for me, the whole movie of Witches was so cool.
I don't care for shrinking, but when I was a kid, Fern Gulley was so cool

[BerryWhite]

Originally Posted by LeenaAngelWing

I'm curious if this is the same with you. Have the first few tfs that you have experienced really influenced your current TF preferences?

For me, yes. I was 12 and saw The Howling. The sex scene being intermingled with the tf, then the long exposé tf just blew me away. After that it was the old USA Werewolf series. Ever since I've never been able to get enough of werewolf tfs, even though my interests have spread to other animals including cows, horses, dragons, and big cats.

[Snowglare]

It all started with Inhumanoids. A vague memory of the monster TFs led me to scour the internet for a show whose name I'd long forgotten. While searching, I found transform.to, the TSA, The Process and this whole bizarre corner of the world.

But Inhumanoids. What a crazy show. I think I must have been around 4 when I first saw it, and I think it must have done weird things to anyone who witnessed it at a formative age. You have a giant dinosaur skeleton monster (with the voice of Cobra Commander/Starscream), going around turning things into more skeleton monsters. He nabs the token female* of the show, imprisons her in his ribcage, then lets her out long enough to make her a giant skeleton monster too.

TMNT was a big influence, too. Catwoman from Channel 6, of course, but it really started with that awesomely animated intro showing the Turtles and Splinter transform every single episode. The ratrot episode of Captain Planet. Teen Wolf. The movie, yes, but the cartoon shaped my TF preferences in a very specific way. I think that's why the Captain Planet TF is one of my all-time favorites. The way her hand moves as it transforms is reminiscent of the stock footage used every time cartoon Scott "wolfed out."

Teen Wolf was also my first exposure to sanitized, tame TF. The first time I saw someone turn into a monster and not do monstrous things. In the cartoon, Scott's little sister was the only one in the family to be passed over by the curse, and she wanted very much not to be. He also had a hot cousin who was cursed, treating me to my first female werewolf. In this universe, being a bizarre freak of nature was cool. Most people treated Scott and his family like lepers, but that's the rule of cool: you're cool because you stand out from the crowd, who can only ever pretend to have what you have.

Now there's a ton of stuff like Teen Wolf, some of which I find appealing. I've always been more of a traditionalist, though. Monsters being monsters, the tragedy of the Wolfman, whose curse can only end with his death. I prefer TFs that are forced, frequently recur (were-style), and are eventually reversed to restore the status quo.

It's safe to say I owe those preferences in large part to the many cartoons I watched at a young age, where transforming into something else was rarely seen as a good thing and was almost always dealt with like any other conflict, resolved in thirty minutes or less. Even in TMNT, with its frequent permanent mutations, a mutant was clearly not human and couldn't fit into normal society. I used to dream of living with the Turtles, but I was never sure I wanted to be one. I'd rather be me (and be with April ) than be this strange creature with its foreign biology.


*Or the token woman, I should say, since this was back when cartoons often featured adult characters instead of making up bizarre excuses for everyone to be a kid as though kids can only relate to others of their kind. I miss 80's April.

[Dr. Otto]

I'm not too cosey with the word "fetish", as transformation for me has more appeal beyond simply providing a brief turn-on, but if I was to lock onto an origin, I'd say Sandra's transformation from INHUMANOIDS first infected me with the TF bug when I was seven or eight years old.

I spent most of my childhood being frightened of the idea of metamorphosis, but after puberty beat the shit out of me, I began to see the erotic potential. (Thankfully, I've evolved through THAT stage too.)

It's weird how many of our TF obsessions were planted in our brains by Saturday morning cartoons. I wonder if writers for kid's shows from the '80's were embroiled in some bizarre conspiracy to brainwash a generation of children into becoming perverted freaks.

[Tricia]

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