So I'm a little late to the party on this one, and I don't watch the National Geographic Channel, because everything they do, TLC does better (for the most part). But there is one show on there, that's usually worth catching here and there, and that's "Taboo".
Now, for the uninitiated, the show is about looking into the weird fetishes or deviances in the world at large, and a particular episode aired some time ago, that featured a man. But not a normal man. No, this man was sort of like a super hero. In the sense that he had two lives, the one he presented as his cover, and the other that he lived in secret.
But this guy ain't fighting crime. He's not even part of a Neighborhood Watch program. No, this guy is living his home life as a giant baby. Now, normally, I don't care what people do behind closed doors, that's their business, but when I'm confronted with it on a cable show...it becomes my business. This...maby (ha!) lives his life away from the "judging" eyes of society, spending his home life in giant onesies, sleeping in a mammoth sized crib, getting fed by a surrogate mother...Ugh, you know, I'll just skip over the particulars of it and boil it down for you, this guy is messed up in the ol' dome piece. Both he and his "mother" rock the scales close to 400 lbs. and are on disability.
Yeah, he gets SSI payments for wanting to be a giant baby. Ain't America swell? And that's not just "Obama" as most morons on the Tea Party would say. Its our society at large. For those of us that are brave enough to scour the darker corners on the internet, you've no doubt seen some of the just downright fucking weird pages and sites that exist for different fetishes. Let's go through some, shall we??! Yeah, I'm fucking stoked for this.
Furry: Let's get the biggest one out of the way. A lot of people have been introduced to this particular sub-culture (thank you, internet!) through CSI and other shows. But they don't really get into the deeper end of the this weird shit. These people...want to be anthropomorphic beings. Hybrids of animals (usually wolves) and humans. But it doesn't just stop there, most of the 13-year-olds and divorce-es that carry on about this garbage end up dragging in other genres and cliches to to create something completely awful. In this group, its entirely acceptable to picture yourself as a half-dragon, werewolf, vampire, succubus with leanings toward being a wizard. No one bats an eye.
Cartoon Fetish: This is a sad one for me. Because it usually involves taking cartoons that I loved as a kid (or even enjoy now) and sexing them up for sad, pathetic bastards to rub one out to. Does the world really need to see what it would like if Optimus Prime stopped the fighting with Megatron, and instead opted to totally just plow the shit out of Voltron? No...no we don't. Ever. Never, ever.
Fanfiction: 1- Normal: Just what it says, normal fan fiction. Taking already established characters, and either extending their stories or coming up with something on the fly. Pretty much what George Lucas did for the prequel trilogy.
Fanfiction: 2- Mary Sue'in' it up: This is a particularly odd sublet of the fan fiction writers that come up with their own characters to interact with an already established universe. However, the term "Mary Sue" has come to represent that character in that, the character is usually over powered, nigh invulnerable, a bastion of purity, in love with the main character, has the main character in love with him/herself. Complete fuckwadery at its finest. As an example, it would...not really acceptable, but its done, to have your character be absolutely gorgeous to either sex, wielding powers of every type of persuasion (if its that kind of story) and that kind of thing. You know, I don't really think that Beast from Beauty and the Beast, had a kid that could switch between powers and that Gastion was totally-balls out in love with. Just don't think so.
Fanfiction: 3- Slash/Yaoi/alltheothercrap: These three are pretty much the same, just replace the context with "character x, humps character y, then kills character z." The big difference come in with the titles. Slash stories are usually crap involving character having extremely explicit sex, then some sort of violence happens. Yaoi (taken from a Japanese term KAWAII ^________________^) is two male characters fallen in love, usually within a Final Fantasy universe, or Harry Potter. A sample would read as; "Harry then stepped toward Dumbledore, his hands twitching with anticipation. Dumbledore smiled beneath his giant beard and took Harry's hands..." what the fuck?! Why? Why would I do that?! I. Hate. The. Internet!
Vampires: See, Furries, but even odder, because black leather and Hot Topic are involved. They also have different classifications. There are your "psy" vampires, the ones that "feed" on psychic energies. The "sanguine" vampires. Or as they're normally called, fucking vampires. Its all just horse shit to cover up that they aren't really vampires and instead they're sad people with sadder lives that have nothing better to do than post on Smoke and Mirrors about how their parents don't care, and how they think they're coming under a malaise from not feeding.
Babies: See above. Really, its just more of the same. I'm actually kind of astonished about how much of a following this particular thing has. Apparently there are even support groups for people that...well, just like to wear diapers. Fucking really? Diapers? That's what gets you going? Yeah, because nothing's hotter than a vadge covered in shit.
And this crap has even started to blend together, so now you can have "baby-furs", "vampire slash fics", etc. And most people that just get online for FaceBook, email and YouTube wouldn't even know this crap was out there. But I, in my stalwart journey to explore the internet, and a helping of Google Roulette have seen my fair share of fat guys wearing diapers dressed up as Bugs Bunny humping a guy dressed like Minnie Mouse and they both have bat wings. Welcome to society!
But what or who is to blame for this? I'm not entirely sure. Mental illness is surely a root cause, but then I could see parental neglect, good memories (non-sexual) of a family pet, really anything. I like a good story as much as the next one, but I'm not about to hijack someone else's shit and try to put my own spin on it. That's bush league.
So, for now, I bid you farewell, and don't ever, ever, look up any of this shit, unless you want to end up like me.
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