What Is Fetishism: A Paraphilia?
Fetishism- A Paraphilia Tahaira Tate The College Of New Rochelle The School Of New Resources Is: PSYAQEA Spring, 2015 Professor. Hassan Shabazz
Abstract
Fantasy, symbolism, ritualism, and compulsion are the four elements of sexual behavior. These are not necessary abnormal, but what is considered out of the norm by either the mental health organizations, and society.
Fetish is considered a sexual disorder. Someone you may know, a male close to you could be having a secret "affair" behind closed doors and you may not even be aware of it. Not to worry, …show more content…
The object of a fetishist's sexual desire might be used with a partner but more often than not the fetish becomes the entire focus of sexual pleasure mostly by men. Primarily in male heterosexuals, in which orgasm is impossible without the presence of their fetish. "In some cases, “fetishism” has been used to name aspects of a nation’s predominant ideal of beauty, e.g. the preference for small feet in old China or the modern Western preference for big breasts" (Bering, 2013). Having a sexual preference or “type” is a mild sort of fetish, for example if a white male is only attracted to darker-skinned females, or a female that is only attracted to men shorter than her. The attraction cannot typically be present without these features, though there is still a slight possibility for it to occur outside them. A preference that has developed into a fetish is marked by the absolute inability to feel sexually aroused and/or gain sexual release without this object or feature …show more content…
In the late 19th century fetishism was first described as a sexual culture phenomenon by scientists. "Fetishism was introduced as a psychological scientific term in 1887 by Alfred Binet and meant sexual admiration of an inanimate object, mostly bodywear and shoes. By then, fetishism was considered pathological" (Milner & Dopke,1997).
Around the 1900's, a sexual psychologist by the name of Havelock Ellis brought up the revolutionary idea that in early childhood erotic feelings emerged and that it was the first experience with its own body that determined a child’s sexual orientation.
According to Havelock Ellis's theory of erotic symbolism, to which unusual sexual practice symbolically replaced normal sexual intercourse, and his thoughts about erotic thoughts in children, had laid the foundations for psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. In 1927, Freud published his psychoanalytic view stating that fetishism was the result of a psychological trauma, which reached non-scientific readers as well. The term fetish became
Abstract
Fantasy, symbolism, ritualism, and compulsion are the four elements of sexual behavior. These are not necessary abnormal, but what is considered out of the norm by either the mental health organizations, and society.
Fetish is considered a sexual disorder. Someone you may know, a male close to you could be having a secret "affair" behind closed doors and you may not even be aware of it. Not to worry, …show more content…
The object of a fetishist's sexual desire might be used with a partner but more often than not the fetish becomes the entire focus of sexual pleasure mostly by men. Primarily in male heterosexuals, in which orgasm is impossible without the presence of their fetish. "In some cases, “fetishism” has been used to name aspects of a nation’s predominant ideal of beauty, e.g. the preference for small feet in old China or the modern Western preference for big breasts" (Bering, 2013). Having a sexual preference or “type” is a mild sort of fetish, for example if a white male is only attracted to darker-skinned females, or a female that is only attracted to men shorter than her. The attraction cannot typically be present without these features, though there is still a slight possibility for it to occur outside them. A preference that has developed into a fetish is marked by the absolute inability to feel sexually aroused and/or gain sexual release without this object or feature …show more content…
In the late 19th century fetishism was first described as a sexual culture phenomenon by scientists. "Fetishism was introduced as a psychological scientific term in 1887 by Alfred Binet and meant sexual admiration of an inanimate object, mostly bodywear and shoes. By then, fetishism was considered pathological" (Milner & Dopke,1997).
Around the 1900's, a sexual psychologist by the name of Havelock Ellis brought up the revolutionary idea that in early childhood erotic feelings emerged and that it was the first experience with its own body that determined a child’s sexual orientation.
According to Havelock Ellis's theory of erotic symbolism, to which unusual sexual practice symbolically replaced normal sexual intercourse, and his thoughts about erotic thoughts in children, had laid the foundations for psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. In 1927, Freud published his psychoanalytic view stating that fetishism was the result of a psychological trauma, which reached non-scientific readers as well. The term fetish became