"Fetish" is one of those words that's escaped its cage. It refers, explicitly to achieving sexual arousal from an object or from a part of the human body other than then accepted arousals, like woman's breasts or men's muscles or genitalia. To be aroused by feet is a fetish; to be aroused only by members of a certa…
"Fetish" is one of those words that's escaped its cage. It refers, explicitly to achieving sexual arousal from an object or from a part of the human body other than then accepted arousals, like woman's breasts or men's muscles or genitalia. To be aroused by feet is a fetish; to be aroused only by members of a certain race is not a fetish, it's a preference.
If you are sexually aroused by the sight of leather straps, you have a fetish.
The gray areas are secondary sexual characteristics like body hair.
(donning wordcop hat)
"Fetish" is one of those words that's escaped its cage. It refers, explicitly to achieving sexual arousal from an object or from a part of the human body other than then accepted arousals, like woman's breasts or men's muscles or genitalia. To be aroused by feet is a fetish; to be aroused only by members of a certain race is not a fetish, it's a preference.
If you are sexually aroused by the sight of leather straps, you have a fetish.
The gray areas are secondary sexual characteristics like body hair.
(doffing wordcop hat)
Yeah, agreed. I think maybe *arousal* that is *only* caused by members of a certain “race” could reasonably be described as a fetish.
But *attraction* to the typical features of a particular race, especially if this doesn’t exclude others, seems to me to be just a preference.
What would you call it if a person is ONLY attracted to a very specific type?