What's The Difference Between Attraction And Fetishism?

Attraction: Fat, femme or Asian.

Fetish: Fat, femme AND Asian.

Thanks R1 that definitely clears it up.

There's a difference between merely being attracted to someone (or something) and something being necessary to get off....

e.g. just liking a guy's feet is one thing, preferring jerking off to guys' feet to regular sex is a foot fetish

The term "fetish" is by definition applied to an object, including body parts.

Therefore, the line between fetish and attraction is when you objectify something achieve sexual gratification through it.

Think of it this way: it's the difference between "talking at someone" and "talking with" someone.

Ask yourself, are there two people there or just one person and the object of their desire?

[quote] The term "fetish" is by definition applied to an object, including body parts. Therefore, the line between fetish and attraction is when you objectify something achieve sexual gratification through it.

R4 Wait, Dr. Freud, are you saying that sexual arousal to penises, buttocks, breasts, and vaginas are fetishes?

If I like it, it’s attraction. If you like it and I don’t, it’s a “fetish.”

I woukd say that attraction talks about the human being. You can be attracted to a soldier and also think he looks good in uniform. When you're getting all hot and bothered for every idiot no matter what he looks like just for the uniform or pass on hot guys because they're not wearing one, it's fetishism.

[quote][R4] Wait, Dr. Freud, are you saying that sexual arousal to penises, buttocks, breasts, and vaginas are fetishes?

For the illiterate in the audience, I'll answer this directly - No, I am not saying that.

Perhaps if you learned to read, you might not say such stupid things.

A fetish refers to a thing divorced from the traditional areas of sexual attraction - face, torso, arms, legs, genitalia and buttocks

For example no one has a penis fetish or a men’s chest fetish because you are supposed to be sexually gratified by that

It can be a body part other than the ones I listed (for example, feet), it can be a persona (“master/slave”), it can be a costume (leather) or accessory (rope) or it can be an abstract concept (humiliation)

R3 R4 R7 R9 Nailed it! Thanks guys!

[quote] For example no one has a penis fetish or a men’s chest fetish because you are supposed to be sexually gratified by that

R9 Who gets to define what “you are supposed to be sexually gratified by”?

R11 =Thread killer