So, do you guys think sexual imprinting real? I've been thinking lately that the reason it's hard for us to get over our first boyfriend or first sex has to do with sexual imprinting.
Sexual imprinting.
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Sexual imprinting is the process by which a young animal learns the characteristics of a desirable mate. For example, male zebra finches appear to prefer mates with the appearance of the female bird that rears them, rather than that of the birth parent when they are different.
This is the idea that an animal starts developing sexual preference – i.e. choice of mates – based on the species they are imprinted on, rather than their own species if different.
Thus one can easily ‘learn’ to find inanimate objects as sexually exciting if one imprints on them at a crucial stage. This is in part, an explanation for the many and often strange sexual fetishes that people show to materials like rubber or fur or indeed objects like shoes.
A reverse sexual imprinting pattern has been observed which has, apparently evolved to suppress potentially disastrous inbreeding. This effect means that people who grow up together (in clear family units of domestic proximity) during the first few years of life (up to about 5-6 years) later seem particularly unattractive to each other sexually. Equally children of opposite sex separated at birth often find each other particularly sexually attractive if they meet later on.
Sexually imprinting can be general and specific. Freud described children as polymorphic perverts meaning their “problem” would take many forms no doubt partially as a result of their early learning experiences.
Yes, but it depends on how long you were in a relationship with them. For example there are a lot of daddys girls who look for someone just like their own father.
I could believe it, I guess it does make sense. I do think part of your sexuality is already imprinted in you at birth though. If "sexual imprinting" always goes, then that doesn't explain why you can have two siblings with an identical upbringing, with one turning out gay and the other one straight.
I could believe it, I guess it does make sense. I do think part of your sexuality is already imprinted in you at birth though. If "sexual imprinting" always goes, then that doesn't explain why you can have two siblings with an identical upbringing, with one turning out gay and the other one straight.
Yes, but it depends on how long you were in a relationship with them. For example there are a lot of daddys girls who look for someone just like their own father.
My friend, who is half Indian and half Chinese, is only attracted to Chinese women and he blames this. He says people are attracted to similar physical characteristics of their moms. idk what to believe
