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Originally Posted by Qbert
Well, if you really want to get clinical a fetish is a sexual fixation on an inanimate object. So, nylon, stockings, pantyhose would be fetishes while legs, feet, big tits, etc. are not.
In the non-clinical world we're dealing with selling porn, the animate vs inanimate difference is insignificant. The marketing is the same either way. Know what the surfer really wants and provide it.
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I thought going into paraphillias would be too much ;) A good chunk of what people list as 'fetish' isn't an actual fetish but is a paraphillia and that includes bondage, etc. All fetishes are paraphillias but not all paraphillias are fetishes.
However, as I have studied it, you can have a fetish for a body part but not a body part which is normally considered sexual. So, a person can have a fetish for feet but not breasts.
As I was taught, the classification of fetishes are broken down to:
Form Fetishes - Essentially, when somebody has a fetish level attraction to an object because of the shape of the item. So, high heel fetishists with a form fetish would be attracted to them due to the shape of the heels. This is why people with this sort of fetish often tend to be fixated on a particular make or brand of shoe because it has a unique shape/form.
Media Fetishes - These are fetishes for a material. So, with pantyhose that would be the nylon (or whatever they were made of) and the various aspects of that material from texture, smell, etc.
Partalism Fetish - This is the exception to the 'inanimate object' rule. This is when the focus of the fetish is on a body part that is not usually the focus of sexual attraction. So, again, breasts, penis, etc are normally considered sexual so you can't technically have a fetish for them but you can have a fetish for feet, hands, bellies, and whatever else.
But yeah..the point of the post was that pantyhose and stockings are different items of clothing.