WHAT IS A FETISH? TYPES OF FETISHES

The dictionary meaning of the word "fetish" means an idol - an object that someone raises on a piadestal and worships. In our day, we use this word to refer to anything that in any way affects sexual arousal caused by a non-directly sexually related object, phenomenon, behavior, or act.

 

Fetishes are many. A lot indeed. It is no exaggeration to say that if something exists, someone in the world is sexually aroused by it. But to clarify the whole story, we can imagine fetishes as a spectrum: Common > Rare > Extremely rare.

 

Common fetishes, for example, are liking big breasts or muscles something we're used to. Fetish for sexy lingerie, red hair, etc. Rarer are people with a fetish for latex, ropes, wearing animal masks and costumes, high heels. Rare fetishes are those that cause sexual arousal from touching inflatable toys, urination, hiccups, farting, fainting, hugging trees, and much, much more.

 

Sometimes for certain fetishes (mostly less common or socially unacceptable) scientific terms are used, categorizing them as paraphilia and, accordingly, often ending in "-slice". Here are some examples of paraphilias:

 

Abbassiophilia - attraction to people with impaired mobility;

Andromimetphophils - attraction to trans men;

Voarephilia - a craving for the idea of being eaten. They are usually swallowed whole, in one piece;

Chronophilia - attraction to partners with a huge age difference (also known as gerontophilia);

Lactophilia - attraction to breast milk;

Coprophilia - faecal attraction;

Podophilia - attraction to feet;

... etc

 

Fetish is not hereditary, but it is almost certain that almost every person has some form of fetish. Its possession is a psychological condition that most often occurs in early childhood, usually between 7 and 12 years. Many fetishes remain hidden from a person's social circle, shared only with the search engine tens of years after they felt their presence.

 

Fetish develops on the basis of a subconscious association. The greatest part of fetishes appear precisely at this age of the child, in which the genitals are actively developing, and these are his first collisions with his own body, and in adulthood subconscious or conscious sexual associations with a particular experience already manifest themselves. That is, if object or action X occurs at a time when the genitals mature and "awaken", it is very likely that sexual arousal will remain connected in some aspect with that action or object X.

 

In rare but still real cases, a fetish can be a sign of psychological distress or trauma. According to one of Freud's theories, an unsatisfied impulse can be redirected to a certain object - so a child who has not received enough love from his parents can redirect his love to his toys; or a person who cannot express his love for another person to redirect his feelings to an inanimate object that will continue to excite him sexually years later.

 

However, the most modern understanding of fetishes is that they are just a normal part of human sexuality and there is no reason to suppress them as long as all direct or indirect participants in them feel comfortable, i.e. the fetish does not intrude on unwilling to participate, and is not criminalized.

 

Fetishes can involve many different combinations of objects and circumstances. Many of them were popularized due to the general interest and cultural movements – fetishes with handcuffs, sadomasochism, whips, leather and latex, etc. There are people with shoe fetish, used underwear, water wetting, sneezing, voyeurism, eating, humiliation;

 

As time progressed, fetishes related to technology emerged. There are people with a fetish for computers, sports cars, piercings, music, fashion... The list is endless, really. A continuation of the history of fetishes follows.

 

Perhaps older people think, "What perverse things occupy the minds of today's youth... Once upon a time it was not so." In fact, fetish is not an "invention" of the 21st century. He's not even on the 20th. Fetishes are as old as sexuality, and as we can judge by the temporal habitation of the human race, this is not small.

 

Sadomasochism (an act in which one person inflicts pain on another for sexual pleasure) existed as early as 450 AD. Ip. H. Drawings were found depicting involving scourges and sharing partners. The place where the paintings are located is called "The Tomb of the Scourges" - a rather indicative name. Today, BDSM is the most practiced fetish in the world and all the associations you make with latex, handcuffs, leather clothes and whips come from it.

 

If you've watched online at least once, you've come across a video featuring a donkey, sheep, or other unhappy animal that becomes the object of human love. Believe me, it's not because people are tired of having sex with other people - zoophilia dates back to before the advent of civilization. No wonder that in Antiquity until the Middle Ages were in vogue myths about half-human-half-animal creatures: centaurs, minotaurs, werewolves, etc.

 

Necrophilia is nothing new. Sometime around the fifth century B.C., people discovered that the dead weren't very good at saying no, and they began to take advantage of them. This happened in the Middle Ages, it happens today (although people are no longer so keen on digging graves). After a huge lull and even criminalization of the act, mainstream culture today has found a way to circumvent the laws and modernize sex with vampires.

 

One of the most famous fetishes - that of the feet, appeared in the 13th century, when there were panics of venereal diseases around the world. Today, the movement is still powerful.

 

As already mentioned, if something exists, then surely someone on this planet has a fetish for it. Choking, choking, arms, chest, necks, shoulder blades, wax, broken bones, gypsum... The list is endless. And if you think that fetishes are reserved for the common people, who has contributed nothing to the development of the world... Read below.

 

Mozart, for example, was a coprofile - a man with a fetish for feces. He loved writing descriptive letters to his sister and mother, the latter even finding it amusing to answer him properly. As proof of his small and not so secret passion we have a real ballad written by him called "Leck mich im Arsch" (Lick my ass) and can be found on any video-sharing site. But let's not forget that Wolfgang was a real musical phenomenon and history defines him as the most famous composer in the world.

 

A very good example of fetishes is Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His Social Compact inspired the Declaration of Independence and laid the foundations of the Constitution. Before that, though... Rousseau had an unbridled fetish for being slapped. So unbridled that he even mentions it in his autobiography. The reason for this was named by him: when he was 8 his stepmother punished him a lot with a spanking and this created a sexual fetish in him. He loved him so much that years later he took off his pants and chased unknown women in the hope that they would spank him.

 

All these facts show that fetishes are neither something new, nor do they appear only in certain people. In the end, it is important to fall within the law, but when they are coordinated with other people who also like them, there is nothing wrong with practicing them. This is also why BDSM is a legal fetish, while necrophilia and zoophilia are not.