Why do some ... and not others?
by Geraden
Having read a number of 'first time stories' – most recently Mike's – I have been thinking, "What is it that gets men into nylon in the first place?" And "Why do some men get hooked on nylon, and others do not?"
There is a paradox here: for us on the inside – people who have the so-called 'nylon gene' – "tights feel right" and wearing them is very natural. But people on the outside have a different perspective. They consider men wearing tights to be unconventional, to say the least, and some would call it a downright perversion. So it is always interesting to read how men started wearing. Curiosity and opportunity are common themes, but are they on their own sufficient?
My wife once said that I must get a lot of pleasure from wearing tights, to balance out all the shame and ridicule that it involves. She was both right and wrong when she said that. For a long time I have felt no shame in wearing tights, and the ridicule is pretty much confined to what she gives me. (If my children mind, they don't say so. But then I do not wear openly when they bring friends to the house, unless the friends are in the know.)
But first time wearers often relate that they experienced a mixture of emotions at the time. Some of the most common are shame, guilt and fear of discovery. That is on the negative side. On other positive side, there is curiosity, thrill and daring. Some men suppress the desire to experience the feeling of nylon. Some fight the impulse for a long time before they finally give in.
Unless children are completely unimaginative, 'let's pretend' forms an important part of their play time. And a key ingredient of that is dressing up. Opportunities for access to tights are often present in the home of a child or adolescent. Mothers and sisters commonly provide a source of hosiery with which to experiment. If not in the home, opportunities will often arise at school, with drama productions and the like. I have often said that school plays have a lot to answer for! I have heard several times of boys being forced to wear tights unwillingly for a school drama production, and then not wanting to have to take them off.
I would hazard a guess that most men who have had the opportunity will also have had sufficient curiosity to try wearing a pair of tights at least once to see what it is like.
Why is it that some men go on to repeat the experience and others (presumably) do not?
I guess the feel of the nylon fabric is more addictive for some than for others, as is the feeling of wearing something associated with the opposite sex. Tights are unique in this respect. They are as intimate as lingerie, yet they are as visible as an item of outer clothing. They take on the shape of the delectable female form, concealing while they reveal, and revealing where they conceal. The feeling of encasement is a powerful one for some people: tights seem to hug you closely and because they are made of stretchy fabric, they can adapt to the male shape as easily as the female one, provided of course that the size is right.
They are soft and smooth to the touch. A word that I often use is 'strokable'. Have you noticed how mini-skirted girls often stroke their thighs when they are wearing tights, but hardly ever seem to do this if they have bare legs? What does this tell you?
Hello Geraden,
Hi Me_PH_Positive
Hello Geraden,
Thanks for your reply, and thanks for attaching the link to Roadrunner’s
letters.
Me_Ph_Positive
Hi Geraden
Hi Mike
I've noticed that whenever I have worn tights with shorts, I'd secretly rub
my legs too. The feeling just can't be equalled by any other form of
clothing ... Interesting entry, good points brought up. I think sometimes
that, although I had male friends in the neighborhood and had my fair share
of rough-and-tumble play with them, I also had an older sister that I
equally loved to play with: dolls, house, that sort of thing. Did I
subconsciously take on a liking for tights from her? Was I also curious
about my mom's tights? Yep, I surely was. Why? What led me to it? I can't
say, unless my subconscious decides to open up and reveal it to me. All I
know for sure is that, since the age of 13, I have positively loved the
look of legs in hose. My own included, which was an early lesson to me that
it COULD be a unisex garment if only society allowed it to be.
I have worn tights since I was an 8 year old boy. They feel good and are
supportive. Needless to say, I love them.
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