In the part of Australia I grew up in if you work with kids you need to get something called a blue card. It is a light background check nothing too serious. In my cheerleading team there was some of us over 18 but most were under 18. Club management said if you are over 18 you should get one, not because it was needed, but just if a parent asked anything they can say we all have blue cards.
Cue talking to my friends about it and they effectively boiled it down to, “So you have a card that say you are not a pedo?”
We have something like that in Canada. It’s called a certificate of conduct.
In the UK I’ve previously heard it called a CRB check, but seems it’s been updated to DBS now
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disclosure_and_Barring_Service
DO we? Holy shit. Here I was just about to think it was weird.
But. I hope we get the right background check. Even before this orange stain, my local SPCA was checking backgrounds via an American company and I was sure I didn’t want my personal info going abroad to some corp. I walked no dogs.
I work in private-possum stuff now (like secret-squirrel but less) and I’ve got cop in-laws (mounties are federal cops). So I’ve been checked so much it’s almost a sport. Send my info abroad? Nope.
My dad was in a conversation that turned to talking about peas (for some reason), and the quality of something being pea like, and called it pea-ness. We only noticed when he paused, and said ‘no, not like that!’
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I was recently told of the mom fetish where some women get off on treating their partner like their child- making them dinner while they play videogames and such.
I remember once dating a girl where she did exactly that, straight up to the way she called me sweetie. I honestly didn’t think much of it at all, I just thought “hot damn I get to play Zelda, get made an amazing meal, and then get laid!? This is the best deal EVER”.
From my perspective it wasn’t weird, she was just very considerate and hot. I don’t know if it was her fetish, but just knowing it could be makes me rethink the whole situation.
I highly doubt it was the fetish. Some women are just like that.
Especially if you ever date an actual mom, a lot of times she’ll just slip into “mom mode” without even realizing and start cooking for you or doing your laundry or whatever. It’s second nature.
…sooo I’m a decently attractive (child-free) lady that’s historically been this way with my partners (granted, not every day. Basically all of my relationships have been long-term, so y’know, sometimes the mood just isn’t there).
This is the first time I’ve heard of the mom fetish, and it also made me feel weird lol. But also made me reflect on why I’ve always kinda been that way, and wonder if this is maybe subconsciously the reason?
Turns out, the answer is a solid “no” lol.
I definitely had an upbringing that conditioned me to be the type of person that serves others. And so as I grew up, I guess that turned into a way that I show interest/love.
So maybe it was a similar thing for your girl? Ooooor maybe she was REALLY into feeling like a mom lol. The world may never know.
Probably one of the least destructive fetishes, getting treated like a kid, lol. Or perhaps I’ve just seen too much crazy shit on the Internet after a decade on early 10s Reddit.
For a long time I was a group leader at our scouts troop, at that time for the age group of 13 to 16 years (myself being like 28 at that time). This happened on our summer camp. We had small rituals for morning and evening, just something to get the group together and starting/ending the day with everyone. As I have enough creativity to write decent short stories and the overall theme of the camp being knights and castles, I wrote a short story about the knight Kunibert, who accounts to the reader about how he slayed a dragon and rescued a maiden from it. So, what does a dragon have? Big teeth, fire breath, sharp claws,… and of course a horned tail. So I also wrote about the horned tail. But in german the word for tail is also slang for penis. While writing I really wasn’t aware how it sounded. Until I read the story to the kids.
That was a bit weird, but also fun. Next day we let the kids write the next episode of the story. They included Kunibert putting his “big horny tail” on the table at the castle, trying to brag with its size, despite it starting to stink horribly, since he didn’t clean it before.
