Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Sexual Fetishism

Sexual fetishism, or erotic fetishism, is the sexual arousal that a person receives from an object. The object of interest is called the fetish, the person a fetishist who has a fetish for that object.[1] Sexual fetishism may be regarded, e.g. in psychiatric medicine, as a disorder of sexual preference or as an enhancing element to a relationship causing a better sexual bond between the partners. The sexual acts involving fetishes are characteristically depersonalized and objectified, even when they involve a partner.[2] Body parts may also be the subject of sexual fetishes (also known as partialism) in which the body part preferred by the fetishist takes a sexual precedence over the owner.

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