Fetishes

[DC_DEEP]

This doesn't answer your broader question, which I think is interesting.

But why would homosexuality be considered a fetish if heterosexuality is not?

Traditionally, fetish refers to sexual interest in inanimate objects, like a shoe fetish or underwear fetish or leather fetish; fixation refers to unusual emphasis placed on body parts other than genitalia, such as a foot fixation, tit fixation, belly-button fixation. If either is taken to extremes, such that a person is preoccupied, or especially if that person cannot function sexually without the fetish or fixation, then it becomes obsession.

Hey, Freddie, do you remember the "Toadsuck Toe Sucker" from back (I think) in the mid 1980's? He assaulted several women, usually hanging out in a large shoe store posing as a salesman, then fondling the women. Once, as I recall, he tackled a woman in a mall parking deck, forcibly removed her shoe, and began to suck her toes... that's when fetish becomes obsession...

 

[Matthew]

Oh yeah? Exactly where's yours? :biggrin1:

Ha ha, I know I drew it around here somewhere.

 

[Shelby]

i just wanted to say besides all my crazy provocative shit I love all you folks for the shit you bring. I mean that in a good way.

 

[SnazzyBear]

i have an underwear fetish that wont go away it gets better and better tons of thongs jockstraps and boxers but more thongs than anything..

 

[smally]

Traditionally, fetish refers to sexual interest in inanimate objects, like a shoe fetish or underwear fetish or leather fetish; fixation refers to unusual emphasis placed on body parts other than genitalia, such as a foot fixation, tit fixation, belly-button fixation. If either is taken to extremes, such that a person is preoccupied, or especially if that person cannot function sexually without the fetish or fixation, then it becomes obsession.

Hey, Freddie, do you remember the "Toadsuck Toe Sucker" from back (I think) in the mid 1980's? He assaulted several women, usually hanging out in a large shoe store posing as a salesman, then fondling the women. Once, as I recall, he tackled a woman in a mall parking deck, forcibly removed her shoe, and began to suck her toes... that's when fetish becomes obsession...

Very good definition: objects, fixation, and obsession... That is how I understood it, just as you described.

As for a toe-sucker, I just heard about this last week on tv.. I think this latest guy was on the floor in a subway car and got caught ...yea, here's the link:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/415302p-350938c.html

 

[Shelby]

I too have to give DC props. His definitions are accurate

The word (fetish) is wrong but the sentiment and question remains.
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[DC_DEEP]

Well, as an amateur educator in fetish behavior, I do have to understand the differences. Anyone interested in a flogging or hot wax seminar?