Source: Mensxp.com.
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.
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.
