When you hear the word "fetish" you often associate it with a strange sexual attraction towards different objects. Indeed, fetishism is something that may seem odd and abnormal, when in fact there is a great number of people having one or another particular fetish.
What is fetishism and what are the weirdest types of fetishes?
Sexual fetishism is a sexual attraction towards an object or material or body part which in reality may be sexless and inanimate.
Fetishism is not a simple interest, but more a compulsion, when a person cannot achieve sexual gratification the other way than by using some object. In other words, if you are sexually aroused by shoes you can get sexual satisfaction only by rubbing your genitals over the shoes, for example. It is still not clear what causes fetishism. Interestingly, fetishism is considered to be male disorder.
Fetish can be focused on certain action, like medical examination or smoking or on particular ethnic group like Asian people. It may involve certain body parts like feet, hands, navel or nose without having any attitude towards the person. Most common fetishes involving inanimate objects include shoes, leather, fur, silk, underwear, robots, diapers etc.
Here is a list of the weirdest and unusual fetishes
Emetophilia is a sexual attraction towards the act of vomiting or looking at other people vomit. People enjoying vomiting on the partner have a fetish most commonly known as Roman shower after the practice of deliberate vomiting during the dining in ancient Rome.
Coprolalia is a fetish when a person gets aroused by hearing obscene words.
A blood fetish is a sexual attraction for blood and is associated with the belief that blood posseses magical properties. Blood fetishist derives sexual satisfaction from viewing blood, cuts or wounds, tasting blood and biting someone to drink blood, also known as vampirism.
One of the usual sexual fetishes involving blood is menstrual fetish when a person is aroused by looking at menstruating woman and performing various sexual practices on her.
Agalmatophilia is sexual fetish when a person is attracted to a statue or mannequin. Often the fetishist fantasizes about having sexual contact with the statue or dream into becoming the one.
Somnophilia is sexual arousal derived from looking at a sleeping person. The fetishist may fondle or rub his genitals against body parts of a sleeping person.
Silk/satin fetishism is when sexual gratification is gained through seeing, touching and wearing silk or satin garments. Most fetishists are attracted to the smoothness, softness and shiny look of the material. They may also rub their private parts against silk articles to achieve orgasm.
Doraphilia is sexual excitement from fur or skin or leather. This fetish can be harmless when a person enjoys the pure appeal of leather, smelling or touching it. Leather lingerie, dresses, corsets and other articles are widely available in erotic shops. In some cases this may turn into criminal acts when a person uses human skin to wear as a garment.
Urolagnia is sexual satisfaction from urinating, or being urinated or watching other people urinating. The commonly used term to describe this fetish is 'golden showers' or "watersports".
Dendrophilia is sexual attraction towards trees. The sexual arousal can be associated with the phallic shape of the tree and often a person may perform sexual contact by rubbing his genitals against tree.
Klismaphilia is a practice of getting enemas and deriving sexual pleasure from it.
Eproctophilia is sexual fetish of farting or looking and smelling other people farting.
Teratophilia is a sexual attraction to 'deformed' or 'monstrous' people. One of the forms related to this fetishism is known as acrotomophilia, when a person is attracted towards amputees.
