Archive for the ‘Fetish Glossary’ Category
Aquaphilia
Aquaphilia is a term used to describe a form of sexual fetishism which involves images of people swimming or posing underwater, and sexual activity in or under water. Literally “water lover” from the Latin Aqua and Greek Phili. Some subsets of this category are underwater glamour, underwater fashion (models posing underwater, often while fully clothed), [...]
Asian Fetish
The term Asian fetish refers to sexual stereotypes associated with Asians, especially Asian women. It is a neologism that may appear in three contexts: 1. To denote pornography, the subjects of which are Asian women, often in stereotypical costume or situations, and to describe Western men who seek this form of pornography; 2. By Asian [...]
Breast Fetishism
Breast fetishism is a fetishistic sexual interest in the female breasts, especially their size, shape, display and movement. Particularly in American and Japanese culture, this fixation has increased cultural acceptance of female breast implants. The roots of this phenomenon date back to ancient history, are culturally driven, and reflect differences in each society. A bountiful [...]
Boot Fetishism
Boot Fetishism, is very closely related to shoe fetishism. Many of the same sexual appeals regarded high-heeled shoes apply to boots. In most cases the fetish of the boot is accompanied by a fetish for the material which it is made from. Examples could be leather or latex. High-heeled boots help to elongate the calf, [...]
Corset Fetish
Tightlacing (also called corset training and waist training) is the practice of wearing a tightly-laced corset to achieve extreme modifications to the figure and posture and experience the sensations of a very tight corset. Those who practice tightlacing are called tightlacers. Some tightlacers call the corsets they wear training corsets. The most frequent aim of [...]
Crush Fetish
A crush fetish is a paraphilia which primarily consists of the desire to see others (generally members of the opposite sex) crush small creatures such as insects, mammals and reptiles. Inanimate objects, such as cigarettes, fruit or toy cars, can also be crush fetish stimuli. The term “crush fetishist” also refers to those who perform [...]
Felching Fetish
Felching is a sexual practice in which a person sucks semen out of another person’s vagina or anus, with or without a straw, after creampie or anal creampie. The semen is usually that of the man doing the sucking, though this is not always the case. The term can also refer to sucking enema fluid [...]
Diaper Fetish
“Diaper lover” (or DL for short) is the popular term for a person who feels a strong desire to wear or use diapers without physiological necessity. This paraphilia is differentiated from infantilism in that those of the latter category are also focused with returning to babyhood in ways other than by wearing diapers. These conditions [...]
Foot Fetishism
Foot fetishism is a pronounced fetishistic sexual interest in human feet. This paraphilia is also called podophilia. It is also one of the most common fetishes and is male-dominant. A foot fetishist can be sexually aroused by viewing, handling, licking, tickling, sucking, sniffing or kissing the feet and/or toes of another person, or by having [...]
Glove Fetishism
Glove fetishism is a sexual fetish where an individual is obsessed and fixated by another wearing gloves on their hands. In some cases, the fetish is enhanced by the material of the glove, (i.e. leather, cotton, latex). Many times, the actions of a gloved hand are as arousing as the glove itself, for the glove [...]
Humiliation Fetish
Erotic humiliation is the consensual use of psychological humiliation in a sexual context, whereby one person gains arousal or erotic excitement from the mixed and powerful emotions of being humiliated and demeaned. The humiliation need not be sexual in itself, as with many other sexual activities it is the feelings derived from it which are [...]
Jeans Fetishism
Jeans fetishism is a sexual fetish relating to jeans or denim, particularly worn by women. It can also involve printed or electronic material with jeans being worn. Jeans fetish can involve: * torn jeans * jeans being worn during sex * jean skirt * jeans shorts * wet jeans * tight fitting jeans Jeans have [...]
Leather Fetishism
Leather fetishism is the name popularly used to describe a fetishistic attraction to people wearing leather, or in certain cases, to the garments themselves. One reason why leather may be fetishized is perhaps that the garment forms a “second skin” that acts as a fetishistic surrogate for the wearer’s own skin. This is heightened by [...]
Medical Fetishism
Medical fetishism is a paraphilia where the activities and paraphernalia of medicine are eroticised. Many observers believe that medical fetishism is the result of behavioral imprinting from childhood. Typical medical fetishism scenarios include intimate examinations such as rectal examination, gynecological examination), rectal temperature taking, catheterization, enemas, injections, the insertion of suppositories and prostatic massage. [citation [...]
Panty Fetishism
Panty fetishism is a sexual fetish relating to underwear, particularly worn or soiled underwear. It can also involve printed or electronic material depicting exposure of underwear, usually of a softcore nature. Pornographic magazines in the West have long contained advertisements for “used” women’s underwear. However, this fetish has been carried to extremes in Japan. Buru [...]
Pantyhose Fetishism
Pantyhose fetishism is a relatively mild sexual fetish of women’s pantyhose or (sheer) tights as they are known in the UK. Men often find sexual partners wearing an obvious highly definitive item of female clothing such as pantyhose stimulates variable amounts of increased sexual arousal. The wearing, often in secret, of pantyhose by the male [...]
Pregnancy Fetishism
Pregnancy fetishism, also known as maiesiophilia, is a sexual fetish for women who are or appear pregnant. Amongst those who have the fetish there are many subtle distinctions and sub-fetishes, so not all are the same. In some cases it coincides with lactophilia, and can be connected to inflation fetishism. It is not, however, at [...]
Racial Fetishism
In academic discourse, racial fetishism is a postcolonialist term found in the writings of authors such as Homi Bhabha, Anne McClintock and Kobena Mercer. The term combines elements of the Freudian psychoanalytic fetish and the Marxist commodity fetish, and is used in the context of British and French colonialism and imperialism and their aftereffects. The [...]
Latex Fetishism
Latex fetishism is the fetishistic attraction to people wearing latex clothing, or in certain cases, to the garments themselves. Sometimes this is called rubber fetishism also, as latex is closely-related to rubber (the latter usually being thicker and less shiny, more matte). Latex or rubber fetishists sometimes refer to themselves as “Rubberists“. PVC fetishism is [...]
Shoolgirl Fetish
A schoolgirl uniform fetish is a sexual fetish in which either a woman (or possibly a man) enjoys dressing in the typical uniform of a schoolgirl, or someone derives sexual pleasure from viewing women (or possibly men) dressed in this manner. While this is classified as a sexual fetish, it does not require any actual [...]
Scuba Fetishism
Scuba fetishism is sexual arousal by scuba diving, snorkeling, or the wearing of diving equipment. It is a type of sexual fetish which falls under the broader category of aquaphilia. Aquaphilia in general is sexual arousal involving water in some form. Forms of aquaphilia include arousal by immersion, swimsuits, drowning, dolphins, and wet clothing (see [...]
Shoe Fetishism
Shoe fetishism, also known as retifism (after Nicolas-Edme Rétif), involves being fixated on shoes or other footwear to the extent it may interfere with sexual expression. Although shoes carry sexual connotations in mainstream culture, this is not generally considered to be shoe fetishism, although it may qualify as a form of partialism. Shoe fetishists often [...]
Spandex Fetishism
Spandex fetishism is a fetishistic attraction to people wearing shiny stretch fabrics or, in certain cases, to the garments themselves. Many people refer to spandex fetishism as Lycra fetishism, although Lycra is INVISTA’s trademark for their own brand of spandex fabric. One reason why spandex and other tight fabrics may be fetishised is that the [...]
Spanking Fetish
Erotic spanking is the practice of spanking another for the sexual gratification of either or both parties. Erotic spanking is generally regarded as a form of BDSM activity (sadomasochism in particular), although many spanking devotees do not regard it as such. Spanking can be carried out with the bare hands or with implements such as [...]
Stocking Fetishism
Stocking fetishism is a sexual fetish relating to stockings. Stocking fetishists may find sexual partners clothed in stockings to be sexually stimulating, viewing the process of putting on stockings or taking them off sexually stimulating, or, in some cases, wearing them. This can be related to transvesticism. Fetishists may also be divided into many sub-categories [...]
