A sex fetish could be described as a need for an object, body part or something else to experience sexual satisfaction. However, not every deviation or personal choice can be classified as a fetish. Sex fetishes depend on each person’s preferences, and many use them to diversify their sexual experience.
Although there is no exact answer to the question of when or why people discovered fetishes, it is believed that it can be linked to masturbation in early childhood (which is usually forgotten), an object or scene can eventually become a fetish that acts as a pleasure later in life as a memory of sexual satisfaction.
Are fetishes harmful?
Most experts agree that as long as you or your partner are not in danger, or as long as no state laws are being violated, fetishes are safe. It’s different if you need your fetishes every time you have sex, and without them it becomes impossible to become sexually aroused. Maybe they even prevent you from having an intimate relationship with another person? Society tends to condemn fetishes and those who use them, although it is often forgotten that it all comes down to personal choice.
10 Today’s Most Popular Sex Fetishes
Infantilism, or adults who behave like small children
Grown children are the kind of people who want to feel like babies again. They wear diapers, want others to feed them, drink from baby bottles and use pacifiers, dress in baby clothes, crawl instead of walk, talk like babies. Psychologists believe that this fetish arises from the desire that others show them more attention or when there is too much responsibility in life and they want to somehow escape from it.
Swingers and group sex
This sexual activity is usually associated with taken, often married couples. They have sex with another couple or more, or they watch other people make love together. Most often, men offer to try group sex. Group sex often causes jealousy, lowers self-esteem, creates problems of mutual trust and therefore can harm harmonious relationships. Some couples claim that swinging has brought them closer, strengthened their bond, and helped them see their spouses in a different light. So, it all depends on the couple and their reasons for choosing this fetish.
Urophilia
It is a fetish or sexual addiction to the smell and/or taste of urine or watching someone urinate. A more popular fetish than many think. It is believed that satisfaction comes from the feeling of liberation, the pleasure of watching the helplessness of another. This fetish involves the desire to control and humiliate another person, especially if he likes to urinate on another person.
Dressing up and using accessories
This fetish is more common than you might think. Common among heterosexuals and gays. Sometimes the desire to change clothes appears when a person does not feel comfortable living in their body. Others are turned on by the idea of being able to wear something that is forbidden to them.
Foot fetish
A very common thing. The pioneer of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, said that this fetish arises because the human foot resembles the male genital organ. But whatever the reason, the truth is that 90% of foot fetishists are men. The arousal can be caused by only feet or the whole leg, shoes, socks or tights.
Spanking
Why do people like to be spanked? Buttocks and thighs are considered an erogenous zone, so a certain amount of pressure and frequency of touching in this area causes sexual arousal in some people. Spanking takes some people back to childhood, when many felt loved but very vulnerable, which can also lead to sexual arousal. This fetish can be about a desire to dominate or submit, where one partner takes complete control over the other.
Voyeurism and exhibitionism
The US Carolina Institute found that every third person likes to watch sex or show off their beauty in public. Studies show that men are more prone to voyeurism than women: 12% of men are turned on by watching sexual activity, compared to only 4% of women. It’s no wonder that 80% of the audience in the adult entertainment industry is male.
Exhibitionism is a little different. At least once in a while, most people expose a bit more of their body for public viewing (at the beach, at the gym, at a party). Each of us is a bit of an exhibitionist. Although it is forbidden to be naked and make love in public places, people seem to encourage it by creating nudist beaches, fetish clubs or organizing festivals such as Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival, where women cover their breasts only with beads and other tiny jewelry.
Rubber, latex and leather
This fetish is about the sexual satisfaction that comes from wearing clothes made of these materials or watching a partner wear them. Rigid material is one way to sexually restrict your partner’s movements. Some are excited by the smell of rubber, latex, leather. Costumes can be very different: from a sexy cat to a gas mask.
Sexy role playing games
Each player plays a different role in the story based on an erotic scenario. It can be any sexual fantasy. You can add as many players as you want in these games. The erotic game can be played in a certain place. There is usually a lot of attention paid to costumes and other details.
Dominance and submission
This fetish became extremely popular after the release of the book “50 Shades of Grey”. It covers a wide range of activities, from fluffy handcuffs to special tools that provide intense sensations.
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