Is our taste for anal play inherent to us?

[Analien]

When I think about this issue, it occurs to me that it is just natural for people to have liking for anal play, by which I mean anal sex as well as any forms of anal mastrubation. Henceforth, I will use the term anal play only.

I have always had tendency to explore my ass, seeing it as an object of big arousal.
It was not until the arrival of internet and proper literature that I stopped feeling guilty about that. I learned that it is entirely normal even for a straight men to mastrubate anally.

Even as a small child I was attracted to playing with my ass, ocassionally shoving fingers or other things in. My younger sister once confessed to me about similar manner.

I believe that I am not the only to have such experience, as I feel that since very beginning, we subconsciously see the bum as a sexual organ, source of great pleasure, besides its main purpose.

The thing is that children usually do not dare to speak about this kind of sexual feelings let alone experiences with adults (mostly parents) for fear of being reprimanded or even punished.

Later, when sexual education comes up, anal play is often not included or it is mentioned only marginally, like something inappropriate to practise.

As a result, there is still a lot of misconceptions and prejudice about anal play among people, even though things start to change for better in this regard.

Your thoughts?

[A. Nalprophet]

Same here...I just can subscribe everything of what you're saying. Except...I'm not so sure of what its main purpose is. ;P

I became very aware of this fact when I, just for fun, tried how many days I can hold it to be celibate. If you're sexually active, then after 4 days you just feel the prostate begging for direct stimulation.

[Lookiwolf]

This wasn't my experience. I had no interest or curiosity about anything anal before I was 23 or 24. I just decided to try it one day and, little by little, i discovered i liked it more than vaginal. Simple.

[singleinDC]

I think children naturally consider their genital and anal region as one particular area and not 2 separate things. I know it was this way for me and from the way other kids talked growing up, it was probably that way for them, too. I think the concept that one is sexual and the other is not is something that is a social construct, not a natural one.

[analsexonly]

Looking back, I think it was quite inherent for me. Growing up, I was attracted to women, but lacked that natural attraction to a woman's vagina that seems to be inherent in others. Instead, I was drawn to her ass and her asshole. That's what got me going and really drew my attention, and has ever since. It's not that I find vaginas repulsive or anything like that, I think they're pretty and a natural part of a woman's body serving an important function, but I'm just not sexually attracted to them in that same inherent sort of way I am with her ass. And that's stayed the same as I've gotten older, and become even more enhanced as I've realized that inherent desire in my anal only lifestyle.

So, I think my anal only nature was quite inherent.

[AnnoMundi]

I remember finding my grandfather's porn stash one day, when visiting his house and it had a mag where a girl got DP'ed. And I remember thinking 'You can do that?' That set me off to explore that part of my body, and anal porn. And it must have been inherent because I liked sticking things up there the moment I tried it.

[Opus 54]

Definitely inherent in me. One of my earliest memories around 4 or 5 years old was discovering that it felt good to rub the area around my anus. I sat on one of my stuffed animals and rocked back and forth, enjoying the anal stimulation, until one of my parents caught me. The reprimanding I received was humiliating, and from then on I think I subconsciously knew: the anus was forbidden taboo, as naughty as it was tempting with its pleasure... I was hooked.

[minorkeyes]

I think so too, OP.

As a kid I was very curious about my ass and the sexual nature of a person's booty. Likewise, I penetrated my own ass years before having a penis enter me.

In fact by the time I had my first full vaginal penetration I had already had coke bottles almost fully up my ass in secret. This is not just me either- both my sisters confessed to penetrating their own ass in secret before their vaginas, My cousin, brother-in-law, a few friends and mother also claimed to have been curious about anal penetration at a young age.

It probably comes from the natural link between pooping. As in, if things exit can they do in and how far. The first time I shoved my finger up my own ass my I was definitely curious about poop in my ass if it would be on my finger when I pulled it out. And the first time anyone penetrated my ass, the sensation of the person touching the shit in my ass left a very keen and unique impression on me till this day.

I also really like the smell of ass oddly enough. It's a major turn on to me.