As a teenager, I had been facinated by removable braces. I don't really know why... my own teeth were certainly good and straight, and I would never need to wear braces... maybe it was simply BECAUSE I could never have them, that they were interesting.

For a long time I thought it was just me... I mean, who else would have a fascination for braces?

Braces weren't my only fascination... several other things held similar fascinations:
 
Spectacles.

Hearing aids.

Womens clothes.

Leg braces.

(... plus a few other less interesting things)


The common theme is simple... they were all things which I was not "allowed" to have.

At school, several kids had braces, back then they were all removable, but the chances of ever getting my hands on a brace was a simple ZERO. Glasses were easier, and I did manage on a couple of occasions to try on other kids glasses.

Mum also wore glasses, and whilst most of hers were definitely ladies glasses (which didn't stop me trying them on!) She did also have a pair of "unisex" black framed ones... I think they were for reading, but she never really used them. So when she was out, I would try them on!

In my early twenties, I needed my own glasses... it seems I had inherited my mothers short-sightedness, and to a great extent, my glasses fetish disappeared. I still had the others to keep me going.


On the braces front, I sometimes "pretended" to have braces. If I was eating a toffee or similar, I could push it onto the roof of my mouth, and pretend for a few minutes that I was wearing a brace. Or maybe I would bend some wire or a paperclip, and wrap it around my front upper teeth, pretending it was a brace. Back then the joys of life were often so simple!


However, I still rather believed that, even if I wasn't actually alone, there could be very few people with these fetishes... and besides, how would you ever manage to meet someone else who had these fetishes. i mean, it's not the sort of thing you say to people, is it?

"Hello, I'm Mike, and I have a braces fetish, I don't suppose you have one too, do you?"

No, it doesn't happen!


At the age of 17, I dated a girl for a month. She wore what I now know is a splint (which actually went over the whole of the roof of her mouth), and it was sheer bliss to kiss with her. She never knew that I liked her "brace", and I never actually got to see it.

In my late 20's I met and dated a girl. She needed braces, and through a sort of mutual friend (an orthodontist) she ended up with braces (initially removables, then brackets, and finally a retainer), and headgear. I can still remember the joy of the first kiss after she got her first set of braces! Again, she never knew of my braces fetish.


Then something happened to change all of this. It was a strange new thing called "the Internet" (with a capital "i"). It had "Web Sites" where people could anonymously put information.

And what I discovered quite amazed me. I was FAR from being alone, there were hundreds... no, THOUSANDS of other people with the same fetishes as I had! And even more with strange fetishes I had never even THOUGHT about!

And even where people didn't share the same desires as you, they understood that you could have those desires, and didn't judge you for it.

On one braces web site, now sadly no longer there, I discovered someone in America who offered to make some retainers. Being a technical sort of person, I decided to make my own models: I put some blue-tack (a kind of putty, used to hold posters etc onto walls) into a "holder" and took an impression of my teeth, and made a plaster model. I sent this to the guy in America, and indeed did get something back. But they were not all that good. The fit was bad (probably the models), and they were rediculously thick. Luckily I hadn't paid much for them. But they were "braces" of a type.

Then eBay came online, and I discovered, over in Germany and The Netherlands there were people selling old braces... and I bought some. And some headgear and a facebow!

Time passed, then I discovered through another braces website that there was somewhere in England where I could actually have some proper (fake) braces made. I went and visted, let them take my impressions, and I ended up with some nice removable braces that I still have and wear (I go away on business, so am able to enjoy them when away!). I must get some new ones sometime!


My desire for hearing aids got satisfied a few years ago too. Ever since I was a teen, I've had a hearing problem (caused by loud music) and I finally got some hearing aids. Guess what: my hearing aid fetish has pretty much gone now, as I wear my aids all day, every day.


I'm married, so have access to ladies clothes (when the whole family is out!) but I have to be very careful there. Besides, my wife has a very conservative dress sense.


However, I don't imagine that I will EVER manage to experience what leg braces are like though. :-(


Funnily enough, my spectacles fetish has been rekindled recently, with the availability of old NHS glasses on eBay... I recently bought an old pair with "wire springs"that go around the ears (like the kids at school wore back in the 60s / 70s)... the lenses are FAR stronger than my own prescription, and have been fun to wear when away from home (although, at about -10 or -12 diopters, they are far to strong to wear in public: everything is far too fuzzy!)



One thing I should say is that then, and still now, none of my family or my friends is aware that I have these "strange feelings" for braces etc! I wonder if I am alone in that? I suspect not!

I think its funny how you guys were jealous of people with braces. I always thought they were the most painful things I've ever had. Its a little difficult to sit there and look at food, but realize its too painful to eat. lol I thought I was going to lose it one night staring at some pizza because of the pain. That was a little hard to get used to. I wore them for about 2 and a half years.

I have gone through mostly the same thing, with the exception that I have told a few people. My girlfriend knows and while she doesn't share my attraction to braces, she does enjoy other fetishes of mine (bondage related things) and has said she would wear braces for me, albeit perhaps somewhat reluctantly. A few of my friends also know as at one point we were under the influence a bit and traded our embarrassing sexual kinks.

I am still mostly in the braces closet though, however i still hold out hope that i will eventually accomplish all the orthodontic desires I have, like getting braces for myself and my girlfriend (money permitting).

I have of late, come a little closer to this goal. I ordered some molar bands and headgear from an orthodontic supply site and I am able to sort of force the bands onto my teeth where they are held there by the teeth adjacent to them. them i can attach the headgear and have the feeling of wearing headgear and bands small victories i suppose, though i won't be satisfied with this for long!

So yes, fetishes do seem come in groups, for me the attraction is not something i can't have, i think it is more to do with the bondage side of things, constraint and punishment or constriction and empowerment, as best as i can describe it anyway.

All through school I knew that it was unusual, so i didn't say anything. but i did look on the internet at night, on the school computers (boarding school, it was horrible) and i found sites like RBC, which made me feel less alone. Now that I'm at university, i've found people im a lot more comfortable with and so i can be more honest and open with them, though it is still a bit weird.