Pantyhose obsession
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I love pantyhose, I have been wearing since I was 12. Does anyone know why we become so obsessed with pantyhose? I have some theories but I would love to hear what you all think
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@Alison Nylon It's different for girls than for guys of a certain age.
For girls, it's mostly about wanting to be older, or to be perceived as such because with age comes priviledge. The priviledge of having a later curfew, or going to shopping centres with your girlfriends instead of having to have your mom with you, or even just going to a school dance without a chaperon. For girls, it mostly means wearing make up, doing your hair a certain way, or wearing certain clothes or types of clothes. Pantyhose (stockings) were recognized by most girls and their mothers as a rite of passage. It was once you got permission to wear them all the time (at school) and not just on special occasions like at church or to birthday parties and dances, it was your official nod to having now joined womanhood.
I think that prepubescent boys likely started to notice an awakening in their minds and imaginations right around the time young girls were transforming in front of their eyes into beautiful young women. They noticed the make up, and hair, and the different clothing we started wearing. I think that pantyhose (as well as other delicate underthings) became a constant mystery and source of fascination to the young lads. When you'd catch them day dreaming in class, you usually caught them staring at your legs tucked under your desk. Girls were definitely high on their interest list, and anything that had to do with cute girls and what they wore, or spent their time doing was of interest to boys.
I think pantyhose was a bit of an obsession with a lot of guys who had newly become interested with girls. As a girl, if you wore them, you noticed you seemed to get more attenton paid to you, and if you wore them to a school dance, the guys loved it enough to tend to ask you to dance more often, even the fast songs! If you took off your shoes so you weren't taller than they were for a slow dance, the guys seemed to really appreciate that and seemed to stick around you for most of the rest of the night. Some girls had noticed that coincidence of events and would compare notes with each other noting the boys' reactions.
I think that for guys, it all tied in with puberty and that powerful chemical change going on in their bodies and brains. Perhaps pantyhose was merely a catalyst for all that. All I know is that it really did leave an imprint with some guys that will likely last their life time.
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@SheerMark I'd like to commend Mark on how well he was able to describe the essence of "obsession" and the varying examples and degrees of which it exists. I had no idea of the level(s) of compulsion some of you guys deal with when the urge takes you.
I think, initially, girls too can be obsessed with pantyhose. My mom would probably have pointed out to me how obsessive my behaviour was about wanting to wear pantyhose until the point she and my dad finally accorded me permission to wear them when I wanted, as long as I didn't expect them to pay for new ones all the time when I got a run in them. (they were also not wanting me as a preteen girl to be sending signals to older boys at school because of my clothing) I had been driving my mom crazy for probably 2 years (grades 6 & 7) before she finally caved in and said I could wear them whenever I wanted, and not just at special functions like church, girlfriends' birthday parties, or Xmas and Easter.
I took full advantage (and even kept some ripped pairs to be able to wear them under my jeans) for their smooth soft texture. Levis, Lee and Wrangler jeans were made of heavy weight cotton denim, back then. There was no such thing as stretch denim, like the kind our skinny jeans are made from these days. Regular jeans in the late 70s through the 80s were all pretty rough and weren't exactly nice to our skin, particularly in the more tender areas. Pantyhose to the rescue. Do you guys remember fairly often seeing a girl wearing pantyhose under her jeans and wondering why? Maybe you didn't care why, and simply enjoyed seeing it, not questioning the logic behind it. I understand that's a bit of a male obsession, too...seeing a woman with pantyhose on under her jeans, particularly if she's also wearing high heels with her jeans? No?
I think it's safe to say that you guys can turn anything into an obsession, or fetishize some of the most mundane things. Not calling out the enjoyment you guys obtain from pantyhose as weird or fetishistic behaviour, nor that to be criticized. There's a lot to like about soft sheer hosiery, in general. And I do. But it's not a sexual thing or a turn-on, per se for the overwhelming vast majority of women. There is a very niche group of women who DO participate in certain activitities in which pantyhose are a key element with respect to sexual pleasure. I'll let you fill in the blanks. So, in that respect, I guess it IS possible for women to have an obsession about pantyhose, but those girls are very much barely a statistical notation when compared to the percentage of men who might.
By the time I was half way through high school and had been regularly incorporating pantyhose into my school outfits (and everything else I wore) without even thinking about it, the initial excitement some of us had 2 years or so earlier wasn't even noted by then. The subject didn't come in chatter around the lockers, or while getting redressed after phys-ed class like it used to. You'd only hear the word if something untoward happened to the pair you or a friend were wearing...like ripping them while trying to get dressed in too much of a hurry after gym class, or if your new pair of leather mary janes rubbed a hole in the heel of your nylons at some point during the school day and someone noticed and pointed it out to you. The novelty of wearing them had pretty much worn off.
About the only time(s) when the topic would come up is when/if one of us had noticed a good sale on a popular brand some of us were known to like to wear, or if there was something that happened between one of the gang's boyfriends and pantyhose were somehow involved. (like the day outside Hilary's locker when she whispered a secret to her closest girlfriends that her grade 11 boyfriend had made a special request of her to always wear pantyhose with her skirts, and even under her jeans) She also told us that he particularly loved it when she took off her shoes and spent as much time as possible without them when she was wearing pantyhose. I think that was when I connected male kink to pantyhose, even though I really didn't understand how any of that worked. All I knew, and found out more later, was that he wasn't the only guy who had a thing for nylons on girls' legs.
I think, though, that Mark is pretty much entirely correct that it's only guys who obsess about the actual article of clothing, and women who, if you can call it that, can have an obsession for the kind of attention we receive from guys when we wear pantyhose. But that would be stretching the definition of obssession, I feel. As Mark also rightly stated, each individual sets their boundaries for what they'd label as obsessive behaviour. But I think a general consensus would include any behaviour that causes issues or problems with other aspects of your life would be labelled as an obsession. Would that be synonomous with an addiction? Who thinks I might have a high heel obsession?
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