Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us (39 page)

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Consistent with sexual-imprinting theory, Boots believed that his fetish for these objects stemmed from his roughhousing with other boys: “My early childhood and schoolday pleasures became associated with the rubber boots my playmates wore. When wrestling, I would usually end up being ‘the fellow underneath,’ and the victor (I was secretly glad to have it so) would clamp my feet between his booted legs. Or I would deliberately push my head between a boy’s boot-clad legs, and he would stanchion my head between them, like a cow is stanchioned in a dairy barn” (Boots [pseud.], “The Feelings of a Fetishist,”
Psychiatric Quarterly
10 (1957): 745).