MY RESEARCH PROJECT: SEX & RELATIONSHIPS

The interview last night went well. This interviewee saw my ad on the bulletin board at a women's clinic. Him and his girlfriend were there to get tested. He had no qualms about spilling his heart out. He was actually relieved and so was I. I didnt think I could go through another half hour of convincing someone confessing to me is not the worst mistake of their life. Maybe I should change the ad and instead of calling it a confession I will call it a story. "Tell me your story" I should say. I hadn't thought of it before but :smack: it hit me on the head the word confession obviously holds some not so friendly connotations. Anyway this guy we'll call Fred. He is a member of a very unique part of society. He and several hundred people apart of this group like to engage in sexual acts while in animal costumes. He himself is a wolf, and his animal partner (a woman not his girlfriend) is a cat. I was given the okay to tell you what animals they are because according to him there are many wolves and cats in this underground world. During this time they actually act as animal as humanly possible. They do not speak in human tongue. They sniff eachother, lick eachother and everything else you could imagine to be normal by animals. And in their suits are little holes where they can engage in sex without any difficulty. He even brought his costume which I was very grateful for since to show an outsider your costume is strictly forbidden. It was a bit smelly,  I would guess because of sweat and only god knows whatever else gets on it. Dry cleaning is a no-no since each animal has their own scent. You can even buy a scent. The interview consisted of the routine questions like age, occupation and data that will be crunched later on for numbers but the beefy questions was about how he was introduced to this lifestyle, how it made him feel about himself, did he feel more animal than human? what is his value on sex? what he believed would happen if his girlfriend found out. I'm sure you can imagine.

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Though this is merely my second blog this is actually day 15 of my project. So far I have had 7 interviewees which has been a painful process (for me that is). I found that they are very much interested in telling their stories but also very guarded (and understandably). So on my part I have to build a foundation of trust. And the only way I could figure out how to do that was by telling them some of my own stories. They were shocked that I had my own confessions. I'm not sure if they were more shocked that I had experienced so much at my age or that someone doing research about this sort of topic would also be a past participant of these socially immoral types of relationships. Anyway it relieved them to know that I am no better and no worse than they are. My object really isnt to label any type of behavior as right or wrong I am merely studying the behavior and the possible motivations for them. I decided not to invite any stories on the criminal side just because that is a whole other bag of worms I am not prepared or trained to handle at this point in my studies. I consider myself a pretty well composed person but I do have my limits at this point and criminal behavior I am much to sensitive to tackle from a psychological point of view.

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Want to confess your worst intimate secrets without the risk of judgment or exposure?

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