How many fetishes do YOU have?

[WraithTickler]

Tickling is the big one, mostly as a lee, with a bit of a ler streak.

Stemming from that is a small foot & bondage fetish which plays well to my generally submissive nature. Tickling's always been my main interest, but exploring some possible derivatives is appealing.

 

[sugarmouse]

what counts as a fetish? ticklings my number one, and long hair on men...theres loads of things i think are sexy...like rock music and leather! (even tho im a veggie oops)

 

[ShadowTklr]

In a word - its a FETISH

I must say I'm surprised to see that there are still people who are skittish about associating their own (obviously fetishistic) tendencies and behaviors with the word, Fetish. Some posters even cite clinical definitions of the word, perhaps as an antidote to the stigma they feel when they think of themselves as "fetishists."

What you should consider is this: The word "Fetish" has transcended its traditionally humiliating stigma, and made its way into the common vocabulary of today's popular culture. The use of the word, and the otherwise benign fixations relative to it, have become such a part of everyday speech, that its definition has been expanded to include the very same adjectives that some of you struggle to use in alternate for the sake of a milder identification.

Here is an example of a revised definition: An object of unreasonably excessive attention or reverence: made a fetish of punctuality. (for the record, punctuality is NOT an object, but this is one of several definitions used in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition 2000.)


I, for one, embrace its use in the common sense. Its simple, concise, and it even sounds cute. A word is only as powerful, or meaningful as its collectively accepted intended use, and the word "Fetish" has already arisen from a term once used synonymously with "FREAK" or "SEXUAL ABNORMALITY" to one of preference, fascination, erotic fancy, and quirkiness.

So, you see, its not necessary to play semantics. Just call it what it is, and say it proudly - it's a fetish. Don't like it used that way? Lobby your congressmen and women to have it stricken from the common vocabulary, media industry, music industry, and generational use. Because the bottom line is that anyone in the vanilla stream ALREADY thinks you have a "fetish." So why quibble about the degrees of fetishism.

By the way, my own fetishes are varied. Some are experiential (such as situations I like to recreate), and some are animated (like wildly ticklish, pretty feet). Interestingly enough, none of my fetishes are aimed at "inanimate" objects, but I do have a fetish for the display of certain inanimate objects in certain combinations on very animated women. Does that count? 😀

Love yourself and embrace diversity!

 

[steph]

Oh, ha ha Perry! <gg>

PS--You're going to make a really good daddy someday when you & Traci decide to have kiddos. Hey--when ya PROPOSE already? (She sounds perfect for you!!)

Happy Sunday back at ya honey!

XOXO

Not sure Steph...what would your husband think? What would my g/f think (or worse yet, what would she do? 😀 Also, those pics of me on my site were taken in the late 90's...I'm not the young, handsome thing I was back then 😀

Seriously, I just don't believe in a man hitting a lady or child Steph....it's just not acceptable behavior in my book. I've never hit a woman or child in my life...never even hit my younger sister.

What's even more sickening to me is a grown man (or woman) hitting a small child. I weigh over 280 lbs. Why on earth, what reason would I ever need to put my hands on a 50, 80, 100, or 120 lb woman or child in anger?? There are far better ways of dealing with an unruly or rebellious child than slapping or beating them. I can sit down with my sister's children and explain what they are doing is wrong, and is dissapointing to me. IF they know I love them, and have trust in me (meaning I don't set them one standard for them and live another), they will listen. Will they still misbehave? Make mistakes? Sure...but they will know I'll always be there for them, and no matter what they did, I'll still love them....which means they will reach adulthood happy and not traumatized from abuse.

Here's a true story Steph...in 1998, sis and her two small children (at that time) were here visiting us, incidently they were living in Folsom, CA at the time. I took them and my grandmother to Wal-Mart. My niece Maddie wanted to push one of the small carts (kid sized buggies), and as we went to leave after shopping, Maddie began to pitch a tantrum....stomping and crying, because the courtesy clerk wouldn't allow her out of the store with it. Becky is standing there...looking like a deer in the headlights as Maddie continues to wail. Uncle Perry walks in, picks up his screaming, kicking three year old niece, and calmly carries her to the van....getting her away from the buggy she wants, away from the growing crowd, away from the situation.

Within 30 seconds of arriving at the van, Maddie stopped crying, and let me buckle her into the carseat. Sis comes running up, and says "Perry..why..how did you do that"? "How did you stay so calm, pick her up and just walk away"? I said "heck sis, why not? she only weighs 40 pounds" 😀

Have a wonderful Sunday Steph 🙂

 

[Sinclair]

Mine is 1. Tickling Feet 2. Seeing a Woman in Barefeet. Is there anything more Beautiful than seeing a Woman, in a dress, on a swing, Sunny Day, in Barefeet? I Love being surprised...seeing a Woman....walking down the street...in a laundry mat....in an ice cream store....in the movie theater.....Barefoot. Another Beautiful site: Seeing a Bride walk down the aisle....Barefoot. I Love saying the name.....Barefoot.

 

[steph]

Hmmm. I'm thinking maybe this guy is into feet...but just a little <gg>

Mine is 1. Tickling Feet 2. Seeing a Woman in Barefeet. Is there anything more Beautiful than seeing a Woman, in a dress, on a swing, Sunny Day, in Barefeet? I Love being surprised...seeing a Woman....walking down the street...in a laundry mat....in an ice cream store....in the movie theater.....Barefoot. Another Beautiful site: Seeing a Bride walk down the aisle....Barefoot. I Love saying the name.....Barefoot.

 

[ticklishbbw]

Fetish, Interest, Fascination..Whatever..here's my list!

1. Tickling
2. Bondage
3. Tickling and Bondage
4. Spanking
5. Spanking and Bondage (see a theme here!)
6. D/s (submission)
7. Mens Chests & Shoulders
8. The Male Voice ( yes, I'm strange..but the sound of some voices, drives me nuts!)
9. Does loving to be on the receiving end of someone's foot fetish count? LOL

tbbw

 

[steph]

for shizzle

<Does loving to be on the receiving end of someone's foot fetish count?>

It counts for me!

XOXO

 

[JoseTickles]

Let's see...

I'm into:
Tickling
Bondage/Constriction
armpits
bellies
jewelry
long hair
forced exhibitionism

 

[MadKalnod]

Steph, Perry,

I have to give you a priceless quote my brother passed along to me:

"No woman or child should ever know the malicious strike of a man's hand. They are temples and bear the same heavy penalty for desecration." Chogai Takato, emperor of Japan (Pre- Tokugawa Shogunate) and author of many of the principles of bushido, quoted in Lone Wolf and Cub.

While it's not a fetish, I derive great satisfaction from the thought of those who would harm a woman or child receiving a tonsilectomy by katana, naginata, kusarigama, or other nasty pointy thing from my D&D Oriental Arms & Armor Guide.

As for actual fetishes, I recognize that the technical terms are there for a reason and will simply refer to them as turn ons.

My Cast of a Thousand Kinks includes:

1. Feet. Whether I'm kissing them, massaging them, fondling them or tickling them, I love to use them as a path to giving a lady pleasure.

2. Tickling. As a lee and ler, it's playful, innocent, and just good clean fun.

3. Red hair. This usually causes me to emit strangled sounds of overwhelmed awe. I love it long and curly or short and straight. If I so much as glimpse Khrystyne Haje from Head of the Class in a TV commercial I'm transfixed for the duration.

4. Anglosphere accents. Not just any foreign accents will do it to me, but a woman with an Australian, English, Irish or Scottish accent causes my knees to fire their explosive bolts and jettison my lower legs. This is probably why, when watching the dearly departed Aussie Sci-Fi series FarScape, I swoon over Claudia Black and Raelee Hill (a redhead to boot!) yet Gigi Edgely leaves me cold as the ship's resident hoochee mama because she plays Chiana with an affected American accent.

5. Certain costumes. While the Batgirl outfit is always entrancing (and I'm talking about the classic Barbara Gordon version, not the current faceless thing that silent chick's been wearing after No Man's Land), it isn't always superhero outfits. To return to FarScape, for example, Claudia Black looked devastatingly yummy in her long black duster coat over leather pants and vest as her "Butt-whoopin'" outfit. Disclaimer: Starfleet uniforms of any era are not and cannot under any circumstances be considered even remotely sexy.

I second the motion for women in suits, trenchcoats and fedora hats with the utmost enthusiasm! I sat through the better part of some wretched Blade Runner-wannabe movie on the Sci-Fi Channel one afternoon called "The Cloning of Morella" just to see the aforementioned ravishing redhead Khrystyne Haje as the film-noir garbed detective.

Certain Goth-inspired outfits hold a certain goosebump-inducing appeal as well.

I've always had an odd if somewhat artsy fantasy about a woman draped in indigo satin, adorned with silver jewelery set with amethysts, sapphires and emeralds, reclining on a crushed velvet art deco fainting couch that used to be in a store at the mall where I worked a decade ago, in a room with oak paneling, shelves of leather bound volumes, wrought-iron free-standing candelabras, the full moon shining through the high-arched gothic window, through which may be seen the sea crashing agaist the rocks below, the scent of vanilla and spices filling the air, Loreena McKennit's The Mystic's Dream playing somewhere nearby ... 10 out of 10 for production values, but minus several dozen for practicality, I suppose.

Simpler stuff gets to me too, mainly light, floral print cotton summer dresses and skirts, preferrably ankle length. Something about a woman twirling in one of these just makes me melt. And if she's barefoot as well, I bleed internally.

 

[steph]

Hiya!

Hi MadKal~

Nice to meet ya! And that's coming from the heart...In my "real life" I work as an advocate for the rights of disabled patients...

In other words if I do a disability app on a patient and it's rejected as "denied--not disabled" I appear before the judge and fight on the patient's behalf to have the decision reversed...My life has been a party compared to what some of my patients endure...

Call it a moment of temp insanity--even though I'm really open by nature (duh, huh?) I rarely reveal such things to strangers... Don't know what came over me that nite, I'm SO not a complainer--as my best friend puts it "so you basically get paid to hold it together for people who are falling apart.." Pretty right on... I think that confession was after a particularly trying day with a one year old who took a TV to the head...Thanx for being so sweet and non-judgemental. I hardly know you but I think you rock! <gg>

And as for your kinks, can I just say...YUMMY!

XOXO

 

[BigJim]

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