Many people know about the phenomena in nature where a new born bird 'imprints' on the first moving object it sees - ideally its mother, but sometimes a human, or even an inanimate object. The imprinting forms a bond with the mother figure, and shapes the baby bird's understanding of its own identity.  A similar thing happens in humans in relation to our erotic desires. At some point in our development, an incident occurs that our minds experience as arousing for the first time. We are imprinted by this episode, just like a baby duck. This erotic incident could be a traditionally… Mehr lesen