What makes a fetish, a fetish?



I've been talking to my GAGGer homies, and we came up with a few theories. This is a spinoff from a question I posted yesterday.

The dictionary definition is pretty straight forward, but there's a difference between text book answers and real-world answers.

Text book definition:

A form of sexual desire in which gratification is linked to an abnormal degree to a particular object, item of clothing, part of the body, etc."

The key element is, "sexual desire." The fetish can literally be about anything, but this object/concept must sexually arouse you.

I thought I had a beer and coffee fetish, but as it turns out, I don't. If beer and/or coffee made me sexually aroused, then it would be a fetish. Don't think so? I did some research and really came up with some doozies.

Climacophilia?

Arousal to falling down stairs

What makes a fetish, a fetish?



Autoplushophilia

Arousal to oneself dressed as a giant cartoon-like stuffed animal.
What makes a fetish, a fetish?




Coprophilia

Arousal to feces

What makes a fetish, a fetish?



Formicophilia

Arousal to insects
What makes a fetish, a fetish?







Nebulophilia

Arousal to fog

What makes a fetish, a fetish?



Xylophilia

Arousal to wood

What makes a fetish, a fetish?




My personal fetishes for girls are:

Ass

Boobs

Pussies

Feet

My personal fetishes for guys are:

Ass

Dick

Arms

Chest
Updates:
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But why is that of those 8 body parts that I mentioned, only the feet are called a fetish? You don’t go around hearing guys say, “I’ve got a boob fetish.” No, he’ll probably say, “I’m a boob man, or I’m an ass man.”
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We’re very interested in your thoughtful theories, ideas and philosophies. Personally, I think the “fetish” label is used to denigrate a kink that you don’t share with others. BDSM doesn’t excite me, but I don’t attach the fetish label to it. I just call it BDSM. If you really want to impress the crap out of the team, make the first word of your reply be, “taboo.” That will mean that you actually read more than the title. lol
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  • I love thighs and legs :)

  • I have an armpit fetish
    Talking about girl's smooth shaven and sexy armpits

    • You would love my armpits! Lol.

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  • Well.. My ex used to try to raise my towel with her feet and touch me when I got out of the shower. On a few occasions oral came after. So.. In some weird way, I started getting aroused when she lifted my towel with her feet. Does that count as a foot fetish? 🤔 I guess it's good old fashioned conditioning.

  • I think it's something different not quite normal obviously something to get you off

    • How do you define "normal."

    • Very true, I guess normal is what the majority of people do

  • Ye I know what a fetish is I didn't. know what it was till I was way older well basically I have a fetish for pvc leather and latex they just really get me. going wild I remember the ex fiance wanted to have sex and I was like how bad you want it and she said like 100 10 percent we spend an hour trying to get. me. up but the snake decided it wants to sleep so I said well. if. you want it that bad then we'll have to use my fetish and she was like what's that so I just said get your leather jacket on and you'll see yep shot up like in mins and she said was best ever

  • The difference between a fetish and a preference is fairly straighforward.
    We are used to the idea that different people like different aspects of others, eyes, nose, bum.. etc etc..
    With a fetish however, the desired aspect, or object is a central feature of the persons sexuality. For a fetishist, the thing they like acquires a sort of "magical" quality, by which i mean that it commandstheir desires rather than just being something they like a lot.
    This is why its called a "fetish" , as that term is defined as"an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular, a human-made object that has power over others." and it related to tribal magic.
    So when for a person an object or personal aspect has a lot of influence over their sex drive, that is a fetish.

  • Scat is the actual term for coprophilia, coprophilia just seems to be the Latin or somehow medical word for it. I think a fetish starts when you're attracted to certain things. I also think it doesn't matter if you're just interested in other people doing it or if you're doing it yourself. I don't think that everyone has it to an abnormal degree because in my case I'm just getting aroused by the videos not by doing it myself

  • In the definition that I read, it was said that a fetish is about feeling arousal or sexual excitment when it's an object or a part of the body that isn't a sex organ (that is, "vagina fetish" isn't a thing).

    But I guess there must be some exception because there's a "big penis fetish" out there, so I dunno.

    • That's very interesting. I never heard that before, but that might be right. But just when you think you have it defined, then you find an exception. So dicks don't count, unless they're big dicks. So then it's a size-queen fetish. So why don't people call it a boob or ass fetish, but they call liking feet, a foot fetish?
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  • NEBULOPHILIA.

    Fog = boner