>>109313040You're right, but it's more of a distinction without a difference in terms of what people are actually arguing.
Simply seeing one of these cartoons doesn't "give" you a fetish. But when most people talk about a cartoon "giving" them a fetish, they're mostly talking along the lines of it being the first time they realized the content appealed to them. It's "this cartoon made me feel funny, and that's when I realized I was into this fetish" as opposed to "this cartoon *gave* me this fetish".
So what you're saying is true, but you're being needlessly pedantic given what people are *actually* saying when discussing this stuff.
>>109313187There isn't any "[Fetish X] gene", its most likely a complex combination of a number of environmental factors as we grow up. Exposure to various types of media undoubtedly plays a role in this too, but you're not going to suddenly develop a fetish wholesale after seeing in portrayed once in a single cartoon.
Hell, it's relatively easy to "give" yourself a new kink, it's just repeated exposure in a sexualized context. Jack off for long enough while looking at pictures of feet and you'll develop a sexual connection to feet, it's not a difficult process. Kinks are "learned", they're not genetic.