How long have you known of your cardiophilia?

I've known since I was very young

Since I was around 5 or 6 years old.

7 but didn't act on it till about 11

About from I,m 10 years old. 😃

I started to show my interest in the heartbeat around the age of 7 or 8, when I was given the doctor's toy kit. Unfortunately the stethoscope was fake and you could hear very little. Finally my mom gave me a real stethoscope.

My earliest heart-interest memories are around 3-4 years old.

At that age I didn't understand anything....

Genuinely, for as long as I can recall. I can remember as long ago as when I was a five year old and how it felt sitting infront of the doctor with his cold stethoscope pressed on my bare chest. I’ve loved it ever since.

At least 2 decades.

For as long as I can remember! When I was five I would be sitting on the edge of the bed at the doctors whilst stripped down to my briefs while he pressed his cold stethoscope on my bare skin to listen. He then asked if I wanted a listen and put the tubes in my ears and I loved listening to the sounds out of my little heart.

Lucky child, I never had the courage to ask my pediatrician this

I first realised when I was 11 or 12.

Since I was young, earlier in my teens I really explored it. More specifically on a female patient. I found it very intimate for a stethoscope being placed on the female breast.

I think my earliest memory was at age 6, when I first heard my heartbeat. It became a weird fascination and obsession to play with stethoscopes and hear heartbeats. I discovered masturbation around age 8 or so, and I was very keen on hearing my heartbeat during that. I wouldn’t say it was specifically “sexual” at that time; I think really around age 11 or 12 was when it became more sexualized for me.

I started liking auscultation and stuff around the age of 3 to 4, I think.

When I entered my teens, it slowly got sexual for me.

For as long as I can remember 😊

As far back as I can remember, and certainly long before I had any knowledge or understanding of sex/sexuality.

Even as a very little kid, I always loved the 'XYZ goes to the doctor' books, or episodes of TV shows that showed a doctor's visit. And the stethoscope was always my favorite part. And as I grew older and started to recognize these feelings for what they were, I knew I wanted to be the one on the doctor's end of things, being the one to induce those sensations and feelings in someone else.

What can I say, I love to tease, and cold metal stethoscopes are great for that purpose!

Ever since I was a child, I've always loved TV shows that showed scenes of doctor visits, especially those involving auscultation and the stethoscope. I remember a scene from the TV series "Pippi Longstocking" where the main character goes to the local doctor's office and during the auscultation scene, you can hear her heartbeat.

@Cuoreitaliano This scene with ‚Pippi‘ has burned into my brain

I was getting a boner at stuff relating to auscultation since about age six, and possibly even before that, although my first memory of an intense experience with that reaction happened at that age (seeing a kid in a hospital bed being listened to when my sister was in hospital and I was just tagging along with my family). I guess on that basis I’ve known from that age, although I didn’t know the word ‘cardiophile’ until much later, and perhaps also wasn’t sure whether or not it was the sound of a heartbeat that turned me on, or imagining one, or the sight and use of a stethoscope itself, and the act of listening to breathing also gave me intense feels, so I think it all took me a while to figure out, and I’m not just a cardiophile because all sorts of respiratory related stuff in a medical context does stuff for me.

Since I was young I remember being excited and nervous and doctors’ visits and having my heart and tummy listened to. My boyfriend in college introduced me to play exams and I realized how much of a turn on the stethoscope was in our play. I began to enjoy both listening to his heart and having my own chest, lungs and belly auscultated.

Probably since 10 years old. Also used to love playing doctor.

Since I was a teenager. My doctor put all of his new patients through a stress test in order to determine their fitness and exercise tolerance. I transitioned from pediatric to adult care just days after my sixteenth birthday. Been fascinated about my heart since then. This was back in 1993.

I was 4 and already playing with myself, moving objects on my chest before sleeping, as if they were a stethoscope. At 5 I was at a birthday party and I tried on myself a crappy plastic toy stethoscope but sadly I couldn't hear anything. I really wanted to listen to someone heartbeat but I couldn't.

I don't remember exactely, maybe I was 5 or 6. I only know I loved it, when the pediatrician listened to my heart and lungs.

I was 4 and already playing with myself, moving objects on my chest before sleeping, as if they were a stethoscope. At 5 I was at a birthday party and I tried on myself a crappy plastic toy stethoscope but sadly I couldn't hear anything. I really wanted to listen to someone heartbeat but I couldn't.

Around the age of 7 I had built myself a monaural stethoscope with a rubber tube and two small funnels at the ends and I was able to hear my heartbeat for the first time.