The concept of sexual fetishism was introduced in 1887 by Alfred Binet
referring to the attribution of sexual attractiveness to inanimate
objects. The term was used only in psychology and stood for a sort of
pathology. In 1912 Richard von Krafft-Ebing extended the concept
determining fetishism as the admiration of certain parts of body. That
was Sigmund Freud who introduced the term to common usage in his
psychoanalytic studies in 1927. Later, after the sexual revolution and
the Kinsey report, fetishism began to be considered not as a mental
disorder but as an alternative form of sexual behavior. Some scientists
claimed that the ideals of beauty that reign in society are also
fetish, for example the passion for small feet in ancient China can be
referred to foot fetish.
In this case fetish depends on fashion forming such a notion as fetish fashion.
As the mass culture was becoming more and more eroticized, fetish was
represented as a common part of life, developing fetish clothing and fetish shoes production.
The elements of fetish personal behavior were reflected on stage, in
pop and rock music, in fetish
movies
and in literature. Books describing sexual scenes existed in all eras,
but with the spread of fetish subculture in the 20th century they
became more available. Having pushed the boundaries of permitted
subjects, the society stopped censuring fetish stories and treated them
like something very fashionable and progressive. Erotic books grew
reachable not only for the elite, but also for ordinary people,
becoming a kind of opium for the nation.
Today fetish stories fans can find any sort of erotic fetish
literature, using bookstores and the Internet. The style of such books
often leaves to be desired, but who cares? Anyway, people read fetish
stories for the sake of fetish
sex or fetish porn
scenes, skipping such “boring” details as the
description of the nature or author's lyrical digression.
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