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Darlexx

Darlexx is thicker, more constricting, and more opaque than spandex, which has led to its use in a range of fetish and bondage garments, such as hobble skirts, straitjackets, and hoods.

Fields of Aplomb

In the winter of 2006, FoA released Weoroscipe which illuminated the power of seduction, black magic, fetishes, and faith.

Noir Leather

Throughout the years it has been a prime local advertiser and has had heavy involvement in the local fetish/goth scene.

Porphyria's Lover

The lover may also be a fetishist, indicated by the fact that he refers to her hair numerous times throughout the poem, and strangles her with it.

Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Krafft-Ebing perceived women as sexually passive, and thus he recorded no sexual case studies of sadistic or fetishistic women.

Sexual fetishism

In 1951, Donald Winnicott presented his theory of transitional objects and phenomena, according to which childish actions like thumb sucking and objects like cuddly toys are the source of manifold adult behavior, amongst many others fetishism.

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For example, in 2002 Vilayanur S. Ramachandran stated that the region processing sensory input from the feet lies immediately next to the region processing sexual stimulation.

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According to the DSM-IV-TR, fetishism is the use of nonliving objects as a stimulus to achieve sexual arousal or satisfaction.

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If a sexual fetish causes significant psychosocial distress for the person or has detrimental effects on important areas of their life, it is diagnosable as a paraphilia in the DSM and the ICD.

Tapestries MUCK

Because of the overall adult theme, many of the MUCK's peripheral areas are themed around certain BDSM-based fetishes or interests.

Underwear fetishism

The sub-categories and degrees of pantyhose fetishism are too many to list and is in many cases combined with other fetishes or paraphilias of the fetishist (and often his partner too) so as to make an individual's preferences as with many other popular fetishes unique.