How do you feel about "deaf wannabees"? Deaf wannabees are people who are naturally hearing and wanting to be deaf and/or impair their hearing to become deaf or HOH.
Here's a Yahoo group in this subject:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Deaf-Wannabee
Here's an exercpt in the opening website (see link above) where you can join to be a member:
This is a special meeting place for people who have a deep felt desire to wear hearing aids for pleasure even though not deaf, and for those who find that hearing aids and deafness have erotic and fetish qualities.
It is also a place to discuss the more radical topic of being a deaf wannabe, and a meeting place for those who have decided at some time in their life to 'cross the bridge' and choose to become deaf by impairing their hearing.