Essay Archive - Fetishism
Fetishism
Fetishism is a perversion that is found, primarily in men, in which
genital discharge is impossible without the presence of their fetish. A fetish,
however can be a variety of things, yet there are three basic types of fetishes:
an inanimate object (e.g. women's clothing, shoes, gloves, underwear), a part of
the human body (e.g. foot, hand, hair, legs, breasts), or something odd such as,
leather, rubber, the touch of velvet. Some fetishes, as observed by Freud, may
not even be visible to the other person at all. In one case a patient of Freud
was obsessed with the shine on the noses of th....
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