It being uncommon is a bit of a misnomer, as it's only the strange things you hear about. A sexual fetish can be to anything, even if it's just a fetish for sex in of itself.
Also, I'd hardly consider feet to be an uncommon fetish, as it's the single most common fetish in men.
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Except feet... You can keep that one. Duality of the issue, fetish/revulsion.
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I agree. A fetish definitely almost always refers to something uncommon despite what the technical definition is.
I don't think the constant desire to have sex is a fetish because that would be considered an attraction to genitalia and for something to be a fetish it has to be nongenital.It being uncommon is a bit of a misnomer, as it's only the strange things you hear about. A sexual fetish can be to anything, even if it's just a fetish for sex in of itself.
Also, I'd hardly consider feet to be an uncommon fetish, as it's the single most common fetish in men.
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Think you are confusing fetish and taboo. There are 'normal' fetishes and taboo ones, but those distinctions are purely cultural in context, specifically cultural norms - within them or outside of them. Personally, I think culture is all bullshit as far as behavior goes.
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There are more than a few eroge properties that toned down their content and went mainstream. Kanon is one I can think of that went on to have a rather tame anime OVA, manga and cds.
Air, BALDR Force, Comic Party, Fate/stay Night, Nanatsuiro Drops, Popotan, Raimuiro Senkitan, To Heart, Tsukihime, Triangle Heart (Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha), Utawarerumono...
I'm thinking a RapeLay anime would be pretty sweet. About a group of high schoolers being stalked by a mystery guy, which turns out to be a time traveler and gives them magical powers and costumes (with sexy results). Rest of game would revolve around finding magical gem stones (with sexy results) to defeat the anti-magical girls from the future that happen to work at a 24-hour news network (with sexy results).
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I don't know how technically correct it would be, but I've always regarded a fetish by the extent of obsession one has with something. Or, rather, what level of rejection one would have for things that don't meet that interest. Most guys in Western culture like big breasts, but that's just a preference in my book. However, if there's a guy that flat out wouldn't be with a woman with smaller breasts no matter how smokin' hot she is in every other way and no matter how awesome her personality is, then I'd call that a breast fetish, and in my personal opinion it would be foolish. Granted, I don't think it has to be that extreme to be a fetish. I think someone could make rare exceptions and still have a fetish, but it's hard to put into words the exact point in which a preference turns into a fetish.
Heh, I'm glad to see this topic is getting back to some intellectual discussion, even if it's as silly as "what is or isn't a fetish". :P Really, this topic was doomed from the start, haha.
What the DSM-IV considers a fetish is a sexual attraction/preoccupation with either an inanimate object (ie-women's undergarments) or a part of the human body not generally considered erotic (such as a foot). Sexual arousal can ONLY occur in these people in the presence of or context of this object or body part. So if a person likes feet but likes to fuck in the more conventional sense, that's not a fetish.
A common psych boards question is "What is the most common crime committed by individuals with a diagnosis of fetishism?" The answer is always "theft", because the perverts commonly steal panties and bras off of clothes lines.
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This thread just took a hard turn toward weird. And considering it started with a discussion about a rape fantasy game, that's saying a lot.
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The DSM-IV; Diagnostic and Statiscal Manual for Psychiatric Disorders, 4th edition Text Revision, published by the American Psychiatric Society.
The DSM-IV is the bible of psychiatric diagnosis. I'm a 3rd-year (soon to be 4th year) psych resident at LAC+USC so I'm fully of random disgusting facts like that.
The whole chapter on sexual disorders is super fascinating. I think I'm the only person in my class who read it because we really don't see any patients with any of these disorders...most of them go to jail if they're poor or get private sex therapists if they're rich. But darn if it isn't fascinating.
The thing about the DSM-IV is that it functions like a rigid checklist. "If they have this and this and this, but don't have this, then it's not bipolar." It's a bit ridiculous because there's so much variation among people that a clinician has to take all the factors into account and not rely solely on this stupid book.
The whole reason I'm mentioning that is because the definition of fetishes that I gave is the MEDICAL definition. The porn world has an entirely different definition, which is much looser. But I thought it would be interesting to contribute the de-facto medical definition to the thread.
@Zap!: You've got a point there. But I don't think everybody who steals panties wants to sniff them. Some men want to WEAR them (as in transvestic fetishism) but are too embarrassed to buy them.
@Mimi: Never use a clothsline to dry your undies in a public building. Nuff said.