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WORLDWIDE – When your date asks you about your “sexual fantasies”, it barely takes a minute or two for the thoughts of a threesome and doin’ it on a balcony to arouse.

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But “fetishes”? They just send a silent panic attack into your veins.

Honestly, a fetish simply means to feel aroused by a non-sexual object or action. It’s a connection that gets integrated into childhood.

And it can be as uncommon as feeling aroused by insects. Sounds bizarre? Here’s a whole list of them.

1. Abrasion

A subcategory of BDSM that involves feeling aroused by scratchy or harsh surfaces like sandpaper.

2. Acrotomophilia

Arousal to amputees—people who have lost or experienced the removal of a body part such as a finger, hand, toe, foot, hand, arm or leg.

3. Actirasty

Arousal to the sun rays.

4. Agalmatophilia

Feeling aroused by statues.

5. Anasteemaphilia

Arousal to a person of extreme stature—giant or dwarf.

6. Apotemnophilia

Arousal to oneself as an amputee.

7. Autogynephilia

Males feeling aroused by oneself’s female form—in reality or imagination.

8. Autoplushophilia

Feeling attracted to oneself when imagining being dressed as a giant cartoon, stuffed animal or plush toy.

9. Chasmophilia

Arousal to caves, valleys and crevices (narrow cracks in the rock or walls.)

10. Claustrophilia

Feeling aroused in closed and confined spaces.

11. Climacophilia

Arousal to falling down stairs.

12. Coprophilia

Arousal to faeces.

13. Cuckolding

A female partner sleeping with another man to humiliate her male partner while he is aware of the relationship.

14. Electrostimulation

Using the power of electricity—electric shock—for kink.

15. Ephebophilia

Feeling aroused by adolescents—between the age of 15-19.

16. Erotic Asphyxiation / Breath Play

Limiting the supply of oxygen to the brain during sex to intensify orgasm and heighten arousal.

17. Exhibitionism

Arousal to displaying one’s sexual organs in public.

18. Fetishism

Arousal to objects that have physically been in contact with the desired person.

19. Formicophilia

Feeling aroused by insects.

20. Frotteurism

Feeling aroused by touching a stranger secretly in crowded places.

21. Gerontophilia

Arousal to the elderly.

22. Hebephilia

Arousal to the children of pubescent age—11-14 years old.

23. Katoptronophilia

Feeling aroused by the thought of having sex or actually having sex in front of the mirrors.

24. Knismolagnia

Arousal caused by being tickled.

25. Lithophilia

Feeling aroused by stones and gravels.

26. Masochism

Arousal to experiencing physical and psychological pain.

27. Melissaphilia / Melissophilia

Arousal to bees and wasps.

28. Nasolingus

Arousal to sucking on a partner’s nose.

29. Nebulophilia

Feeling aroused by fog.

30. Necrophilia

Feeling aroused by corpses.

31. Objectophilia

Arousal to a particular object, regardless of whether it has been in physical contact with the desired person or not.

32. Partialism

Feeling sexually aroused by body parts other than the reproductive ones like calves, biceps etc.

33. Pedophilia

Arousal to prepubescent children—below 9 years old.

34. Podophilia

Feeling aroused by feet.

35. Psellismophilia

Feeling aroused by the act of stuttering.

36. Psychrophilia

Arousal to being cold and watching others who are cold.

37. Pteronphilia

Feeling aroused when tickled by feathers.

38. Pubephilia

Arousal to pubic hair.

39. Pygophilia

Arousal to buttocks.

40. Quirofilia

Feeling specifically attracted to fingers, a good manicure or hands.

41. Sadism

Arousal by causing physical and psychological pain.

42. Savantophilia

Sexual arousal and attraction to mentally challenged and deformed.

43. Spectrophilia

Sexual attraction to ghosts or images in the mirrors.

44. Stygiophilia

Feeling aroused by the thought of damnation or hellfire.

45. Teleiophilia

Arousal to reproductive-aged adults.

46. Teratophilia

Sexual attraction to monsters or deformed people.

47. Titillgnia

Arousal to tickling others.

48. Transvestic Fetishism

Arousal to women’s garments touching male’s skin.

49. Trichophilia

Feeling sexually aroused by human hair—arm hair, chest hair, pubic hair, hair on your head and even animal fur.

50. Urophilia / Golden Shower / Water Sports

Arousal to urine—urinating on others or being urinated by others.

51. Vorarephilia

Arousal to eating the body parts of another person.

52. Voyeurism

Arousal to spying on others for sexual pleasure.

53. Xylophilia

Arousal to the wood.

54. Zoophilia

Sexual fixation on non-human animals.

The Bottomline

It may have seemed like a diction class up there but most fetishes do have an addressive word for them.

Some of these may sound funny, some may seem generic and others might just disgust you. But unfortunately, most fetishes can be connected to one’s childhood.