Fetishes are easy. Sometimes we even find a new one by accident. But let’s instead talk about turn offs now.

I recently, and by mere accident, discovered I have a very hard limit. I’m not talking about a turn off. My instinctive reaction was so visceral I call it a cut off. I felt dirty. Came home and took a shower. And used the lye soap.

I stopped at my local supermarket for some items. As I was going through the ailes - it’s a Lidl, so not much to lock us in there - I noticed a group of three girls, doing their shopping spree. This is a relatively small area, so greeting another person is still considered common politeness and because I needed an item from where they were standing I approached the girls, asked to reach the shelf and thanked them as I dropped the item in my cart.

Nothing wrong here, right?

Now allow me a moment to talk about myself. I’m plain and average, on all metrics. I’d be gray in a picture. I don’t stand out. And I try my best to be like that. If I could have a supra human hability, I’d choose to be able to go unnoticed at will.

One of those girls locked eyes with me. It wasn’t a casual glance or the more focused, social setting, attentative eye contact. It was pure lust. And that irked me to a level I had never known until that moment.

There was a girl, in the prime of her life, at least 15 years younger than me, eyeing me. It felt wrong. It should not, ever, be for someone my age, like me, that reaction. I felt bad. I felt uneasy.

I slapped my best neutral face and went about with my life. But that stayed with me. It shows, does it not? I’m writing this down.

Age difference does not sit well with me. And the bigger the gap, the worst it gets.

  • TheDegenerates6964
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    3 days ago

    Thank you for sharing, OP.

    Too young as to be illegal young, yes, but other than that. Would you judge other would like to engage in it, OP?

    As for our turn offs. We were asked once to act out some race play and that haunted us for weeks so no, not again. And scat. Big no. Hubby even has issues with anal due to that.

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      Too young as to be illegal young, yes, but other than that. Would you judge other would like to engage in it, OP?

      Two to three years age gap is the most I can understand. And even then.

      Age gaps always irked me. I’ll grant that for each their own but it’s a concept that I do not subscribe.

      From power dynamics in the couple, relationship longevity, etc, for me it is a 9 times out of 10 scenario for failure.

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    7 days ago

    Feet. I don’t think there is anything morally wrong with liking them. But for me they are a massive turnoff and that’s before they get sexualized.

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    Nothing so long as its drawn. If its real life almost everything i love in fantasy. I have a strict wall between reality and fantasy that only piss seems to have broken through.

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    7 days ago

    I had similar experiences recently. It seems like this generation of young women either has more older guy fetishes or is less shy about showing them. Either way, I am right there with you–it felt surprisingly gross.

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      I was a teen once. Older women had that je ne sais quois… but - and I’m speaking about myself - it was admiration from afar. Very much mixed with desire, yes, but not like I saw in that girl’s eyes. That was pure basic lust, borderline animalistic.

      Sincerely speaking, I hope she doesn’t end in hot waters for that proclivity of hers.

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    7 days ago

    Age play, race play, incest play, poo, vomit, pee

    I’ll try almost anything a few times, but those are out

    I know there are others, but that’s a brief list

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    I was once truly in love with this gal. I was even prepared to move to a whole other continent to continue being with her. But my job couldn’t transfer just yet. We talked about ideas of maybe in another year or so. I was all for it.

    But then, she found out she couldn’t bring her most beloved little dog with her. I wasn’t a big fan of the dog, personally, because it was defensive-agressive.

    She raised this issue with her parents insisting they keep the dog, they said they’d abandon it, and so it came down to me. I could save this dog. I tried to figure anything out thst I could. But ultimately my building wouldn’t permit me to have the dog and my lease was too expensive to buy out of.

    So she leaves. She goes to the other continent. And in the first three months, she buys a full sized husky for her apartment living situation.

    Oh my god, I’ve never gone from love to absolute disdain faster in my life.

    So for me, I suppose abandoning a living being was my absolute turn off.

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    I find it amusing when younger guys think I’m hot. I’m not going to entertain their desires but it’s funny not off-putting to me. The kid who used to cut my lawn with his “you seem like a cool lady, wanna get high?” He was persistent but honestly it just cracked me up. Old guys did most certainly squick me out when I was young though, and yes generational age gaps are a turnoff.

    I am very turned off by subby guys (sorry, guys) and by rich guys usually.

    @[email protected] , we were looking for a dog and this lady was re-homing hers because she had a baby and didn’t want to juggle the responsibility. Logically I can accept that it’s not better for her to keep it if she can’t handle both but damn if I couldn’t stop judging her. How can you give away your pet? It’s your family!

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    Let’s trade. I feel like I have that ability, though it’s not at will. I just often feel literally invisible in public, and I joke that I must be one of the Silents (from Doctor Who) when it comes to social events. You can have it.

    As far as turn-offs, for me it’s scent. I know homosexual activity isn’t something I would be into because men smell like men, which is not at all unpleasant, but just sort of extinguishes sexual desire the way water extinguishes fire. On the bad end of the spectrum, anything anal is no bueno. Just the word “butthole” can make me vaguely queasy remembering the odor.

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      For you to get what in return? I really don’t think I have something worthy to trade. Averageness is not a high value comodity.

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    7 days ago

    This girl snapped at someone else’s polite “could you close the door please”

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        The girl was rude in a situation she didn’t need to be rude in. It was a massive turn off. Rude people suck. I’d go further myself and just say people suck, but I do like a few of them…

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        Yeah, it’s not a very good example like yours. Just the first thing that came to mind. I have not really discovered any unknown turnoffs.

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          People being unpleasant is a pretty major turn off for most people!

          I ditched someone because she said my dog was disgusting

          He is, but so am I, so it was pretty apparent that we weren’t going to be compatible

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            I have this strange thing I do.

            I care to dogs, have way too much dog under my roof, I think dogs are just special and unique creatures.

            Yet some dogs just strike me as plain ugly. And I can’t avoid saying it out loud. I can’t avoid it. Verbatim, I say “You have no fault but you’re so ugly”.

            In my language sounds a lot better.

            This horrifies people. And then I always play with the pooch. Which confuses everyone.

            They may be ugly but I’d rather have a world filled with ugly dogs than a world devoid of dogs.

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    I really hate scat. I just can’t understand why people would be into that. Psychos, and if you are like freshly 18, just out of high school, you are not the same as a full ass adult. Like, at least be 20, preferably higher.