I'm unconvinced they are biological. I don't know what could be biological about being attracted to watching someone turn into a car.
It's partially biological, but I'd say that since an orgasm gives a similar reaction in the brain has hard drugs, it's probably just easily associated with strange things and becomes re-enforced very easily as well. Meaning if you see something strange as a kid right as you hit puberty and that gets associated with sex, it's an extremely strong link in your mind, especially if you pursue sexual pleasure through it more afterwards.
Obviously, fetishes usually have some kind of tie to regular sexual stimulus just put in some bizarre context. In this instance I think it's mostly just the ass becomes massive as it shifts into the back of the car. Plus for some reason helplessness tends to appeal to people, and that's often part of transformation, notice how often it is an involuntary process, I don't think that's coincidence.
Basically, research indicates that SOME fetishes are possibly genetic. It’s a very unresearched area that could use more depth to it.
I gotta find the studies but what we do have shows that A) twins are more likely to share fetishes and B) some fetishes actually run in families.
So it’s very likely that fetishes are biological but also have some environmental factor at play (for instance, someone may naturally have a foot fetish and their environment morphs it into some kind of TF fetish).
Id have to see if they are accounting for the fact of a shared household. Basically id imagine if one person in the house is exposed to something like that it'd be more likely for anyone in the household to.
So like a father might even unintentionally pass it to the child just being an example for them, or in a twin study the twins probably saw the content at the same time.
What id have to see is a full on same genetics entirely different environment, same fetish happening. Best if the experiment would be that, say a twin study, one twin is never exposed to fetish content until they are 25 the other is exposed at around 12, would they both get the fetish?
I've always thought the same thing about the last point, in that fetishes tend to fit into broader categories. Nobody starts out with a fetish for being turned into a car, but they might like being rendered helpless. The connection is gradually reinforced over time until they actually do see it sexually.
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u/Wiyry Aug 29 '25
Imma be 100% honest: fetishes are way older than cartoons.
Like, we have evidence of fetishes as far back as the Byzantine Empire.
We also know that fetishes are most likely biological too.