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fetish
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sexual arousal a person receives from an object or situation
A fetish is a strong sexual attraction to a specific object, body part, or situation that a person finds arousing. Understanding fetishes matters because they're a common aspect of human sexuality that varies widely from person to person.
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Research
563 papers- Feederism in a woman.Archives of sexual behavior · 2011Terry LL, Vasey PLDOI: 10.1007/s10508-009-9580-9
- [Fetishism].ReviewRyoikibetsu shokogun shirizu · 2003Yokoyama S
- Researching the Ebola Reservoir with the Heuristic of the Fetish in Guinea.Medical anthropology · 2023Roth EDOI: 10.1080/01459740.2023.2214671
- Neuronal death and GSK-3beta: a tau fetish?ReviewTrends in neurosciences · 2001Mattson MPDOI: 10.1016/s0166-2236(00)01838-5
- The Prevalence of Paraphilic Interests and Behaviors in the General Population: A Provincial Survey.Journal of sex research · 2017Joyal CC, Carpentier JDOI: 10.1080/00224499.2016.1139034
- Repenser le fétichisme.Revue medicale suisse · 2020Bianchi-Demicheli F, Langaney A
- Paraphilia.2026Fisher KA, Marwaha R
- [Reply].Medicina clinica · 2013Xifró A, Barbería E, Laguna C et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.medcli.2012.06.005
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- Sexual fetishism
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- C94353
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- identifiers.org/doid/DOID:1235
- ICD-9-CM
- 302.81
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Article
Sexual fetishism is a sexual fixation on anything not considered sexual by its respective nature. The object of interest is called the fetish; the person who has a fetish is a fetishist. A sexual fetish may be regarded as a mental disorder if it causes significant psychosocial distress for the person or has detrimental effects on important areas of their life. Sexual arousal from a particular body part can be further classified as partialism.
Medical definitions restrict the term sexual fetishism to objects or body parts. In common language, fetish is also used for a sexual interest in specific activities, people, types of people, substances, or situations.