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Any part of the human body, from head to toe, can be the object of erotic fetishism - the hair, the ears, the eyes, the nose, the neck, the shoulders, the arms, hands and fingers, the breasts, the stomach, the sex organs, the buttocks, the legs, the feet and many other large and small portions of the body. In some cases, even a physical deformation like obesity provides the essential stimulant. Indeed, there may be a fetishistic interest in misshapen or even missing body parts – a hump, a goiter, or an amputation. It is further possible that very private human activities like urination and defecation become erotically arousing to a fetishist. This may also be true for wearing wet clothes, or masks, or uniforms, or diapers and pretending to be a baby. Finally, when it comes to inanimate objects, the possibilities are virtually endless. Anything at all can become the focus of fetishism – clothing like hats, gloves, shoes, and underwear, or materials like fur, leather, latex, and silk, or instruments like saddles, canes, whips, handcuffs, and many, far too many more. Making a list of the innumerable actual and potential fetishisms may be an amusing pastime for some people, but ultimately it is a ludicrous enterprise.
Nevertheless, in spite of these reservations, we offer the following short and very incomplete list simply as another illustration of the same basic lesson: In humans, sexual behavior is not and cannot be uniform. Their erotic potential is shaped by so many different psychosocial influences that it cannot but find expression in a great variety of ways. As we can see here, upon closer inspection, even a single “paraphilia” like fetishism breaks down into numerous subcategories of different significance.
Some fetishisms (listed in alphabetical order)
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Amputee fetishism
Blindness fetishism
Bondage & discipline (B&D)
Breast fetishism
Boots fetishism
Buttocks fetishism
Dental fetishism
Dental braces fetishism
Depilation fetishism
Diaper fetishism
Doll fetishism
Ear fetishism
Eyeglasses fetishism
Fart fetishism
Fecal fetishism
Feeding fetishism
Foreskin fetishism
Foot fetishism
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Freckle fetishism
Fur fetishism
Glove fetishism
Hair fetishism
Hand fetishism
Infantilism (child imitation)
Latex fetishism
Leather fetishism
Mask fetishism
Medical fetishism
Milk fetishism
Mole fetishism
Muscle fetishism
Navel fetishism
Neck fetishism
Nose fetishism
Panty fetishism
Piercing fetishism
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Pregnancy fetishism
Rubber fetishism
Semen fetishism
Shoe fetishism
Silk fetishism
Socks fetishism
Saliva fetishism
Statue fetishism
Strabismus fetishism
Stripping fetishism
Tattoo fetishism
Transvestic fetishism
(transvestophilia)
Urine fetishism
Underwear fetishism
Uniform fetishism
Wetlook fetishism
Wrestling fetishism
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