Encyclopedia - Fetishism: Encyclopedia - Fetishism
A fetish (from French fétiche; from Portuguese feitiço; from Latin facticius, "artificial" and facere, "to make") is a natural object b...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fetish: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Fetish
Fetish (derived from a Portuguese word for medals and crucifixes worn by sailors and extended by them to amulets used by Africans; fir...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fetish: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Fetish
Fetish (derived from a Portuguese word for medals and crucifixes worn by sailors and extended by them to amulets used by Africans; fir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Smoking Fetishism: Encyclopedia - Smoking Fetishism
Smoking fetishism (capnolagnia) is a sexual fetish (paraphilia), consisting of the fetishisation of the smoking of tobacco, including cig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Balloon Fetishism: Encyclopedia - Balloon Fetishism
Balloon fetishism is a fetish in which a person is sexually aroused by balloons (possibly including the latex material, shape, colour, sm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Veil Fetishism: Encyclopedia - Veil Fetishism
Veil fetishism is a sexual desire for women wearing veils over their faces. The causes of veil fetishism may include interests in mystery...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amputee Fetishism: Encyclopedia - Amputee Fetishism
Amputee Fetishism is a fetish focused on amputations, generally of limbs. An Internet virtual community exists, with its own special ter...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Breast Fetishism: Encyclopedia - Breast Fetishism
Breast fetishism is a fetishistic sexual interest in the female breasts, especially their size, shape, display and movement. Particularly...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Commodity Fetishism: Encyclopedia - Commodity Fetishism
In Marxist theory, commodity fetishism is an inauthentic state of social relations, said to arise in complex capitalist market systems, w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wet And Messy Fetishism: Encyclopedia - Wet And Messy Fetishism
A wet and messy fetish (WAM) is a form of sexual fetishism that has a person getting aroused by substances applied on the body like mud, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fur: Encyclopedia - Fur
The term fur refers to the body hair of non-human mammals also known as the pelage (like the term plumage in birds). Fur comes from the c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ribbon Corset: Encyclopedia - Ribbon Corset
A waist cincher or Ribbon Corset is a type of short corset or broadly belt that is used to pull in the waist. It is very much tighter tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Glabrousness: Encyclopedia - Glabrousness
Glabrousness is the technical term for having a lack of hair or down. Those who are glabrous have either performed depilation, or have me...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corporal Punishment: Encyclopedia - Corporal Punishment
Corporal punishment is the deliberate infliction of pain intended as correction or punishment. Historically speaking most punishments, wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Urination: Encyclopedia - Urination
Urination, also called micturition, is the process of disposing urine from the urinary bladder through the urethra to the outside of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rudraksha: Encyclopedia - Rudraksha
Rudraksha is commonly used to mean the seeds of the rudraksha tree, Elaeocarpus ganitrus. In Sanskrit rudraksha literally means "the eye ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clothing: Encyclopedia - Clothing
(See also List of types of clothing and Clothing terminology) Humans nearly universally wear articles of clothing (also known as dress, g...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fetish: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Fetish
Fetish (derived from a Portuguese word for medals and crucifixes worn by sailors and extended by them to amulets used by Africans; fir...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fetishism: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Fetishism
Fetishism (from Latin facticius artificial)   Applied by modern scholars to the practice of worshiping various objects, either na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fetishism: Encyclopedia Ii - Fetishism - History
The concept was coined by Charles de Brosses in 1757, while comparing West African religion to the magical aspects of Ancient Egyptian re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fetishism: Encyclopedia Ii - Fetishism - Practice
Theoretically, fetishism is present in all religions, but its use in the study of religion is derived from studies of traditional West Af...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sexual Fetishism: Encyclopedia Ii - Sexual Fetishism - Modern Theories Of Fetishism
Although Freud's theory on fetishes may seem peculiar and was based on anecdotal rather than empirical evidence, he had discovered a crit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fetishism: Encyclopedia Ii - Fetishism - History
The concept was coined by Charles de Brosses in 1757, while comparing West African religion to the magical aspects of Ancient Egyptian re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Foot Fetishism: Encyclopedia Ii - Foot Fetishism - Scope Of Foot Fetishism
A foot fetishist can be sexually aroused by viewing, handling, licking, tickling, sucking, sniffing or kissing the feet and/or toes of an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transformation Fetish: Encyclopedia Ii - Transformation Fetish - Overview
The TF community does not seem to have a specific name for its members; often the generic "TF fan" is used, however this term is also app...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asian Fetish: Encyclopedia Ii - Asian Fetish - Terminology
Asian fetish is not a fetish in the strict Freudian definition of the word, i.e. a situation wherein the object of affection is an inanim...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asian Fetish: Encyclopedia Ii - Asian Fetish - Criticisms
Some critics contend that the stereotype of an Asian fetish is a means of discouraging interracial relationships or race mixing, with the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Foot Fetishism: Encyclopedia Ii - Foot Fetishism - Proposed Explanations For Foot Fetishism
One explanation, advanced by neurologist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, highlights the fact that the feet and the genitals occupy adjacent ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Veil Fetishism: Encyclopedia Ii - Veil Fetishism - Overview
Veil fetishists are a diverse group. They may be interested in niqabs, burkas and harem-style veils. Some are attracted to women who wear...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amputee Fetishism: Encyclopedia Ii - Amputee Fetishism - Terminology
The specialized two- and three-letter abbreviations used within the devotee-wannabe community logically follow from the types of limb amp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asian Fetish: Encyclopedia Ii - Asian Fetish - Sexuality And Stereotypes
From the Yellow Peril to the Model Minority, Asian Americans have been the subject of numerous negative stereotypes. But perhaps most fas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asian Fetish: Encyclopedia Ii - Asian Fetish - Physical Anthropology
One line of reasoning about the sexual attraction of Asian women has been developed by the German anthropologists, led by Rainer Knußman...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Breast Expansion Fetish: Encyclopedia Ii - Breast Expansion Fetish - Fiction
Breast expansion stories are often fantastical tales of women’s busts being enlarged by air, food, magic, medicine, alien technology or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asian Fetish: Encyclopedia Ii - Asian Fetish - Sexual Crimes
No statistical evidence has yet shown that relationships between non-Asian men and Asian women are any less likely to be healthy and func...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crush Fetish: Encyclopedia Ii - Crush Fetish - Crush Films
Also known as "animal snuff films", crush films are basically footage of small animals such as insects, mammals (especially rodents) and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Feeder Fetish: Encyclopedia Ii - Feeder Fetish - Variations Of Feederism
The feeder/feedee subculture is quite varied and just as in any subculture there are different preferences and different tastes. For exam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tickling: Encyclopedia Ii - Tickling - Fetishism
Tickling as a fetish is perhaps one of the most common human behaviors known, in that studies indicate nearly 85 percent of adults in som...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Commodity Fetishism: Encyclopedia Ii - Commodity Fetishism - After Marx
The Fetishism of Commodities has proven fertile material for work by other theorists since Marx, who have added to, adapted, or, as Marxi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wet And Messy Fetishism: Encyclopedia Ii - Wet And Messy Fetishism - Theories
One theory is that the feeling of wet and messy substances on the skin is a surrogate for the feeling of touching a partners' skin while ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Commodity Fetishism: Encyclopedia Ii - Commodity Fetishism - Marx's Argument
People within capitalist societies find their material life organized through the medium of commodities. They trade their labor-power (wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ribbon Corset: Encyclopedia Ii - Ribbon Corset - Fetishism
While the idea of applying force to the waist for aesthetic reasons has fallen out of favor, there were some advantages to the practice. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gas Mask: Encyclopedia Ii - Gas Mask - Sexual Fetish
A small but significant number of people, particularly in the United Kingdom, have a sexual fetish about gas masks. It has been hypothesi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Erotic Spanking: Encyclopedia Ii - Erotic Spanking - Spanking Fetishism
Despite contrary notions, spanking fetishism can often be found with people who were never spanked as a child, often coming out later in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constant Capital: Encyclopedia Ii - Constant Capital - The Fetish Of Capital
The fact that the productive force of labour appears within capitalism as the productive force of capital was for Marx an example of reif...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Delilah Knotty Fetish Model: Encyclopedia Ii - Delilah Knotty Fetish Model - History Of Crossdressing And Bondage In Porn
Crossdressing bondage images has only been seen as underachieved niche within erotica and pornography and has hardly been approached thro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Infantilism: Encyclopedia Ii - Infantilism - The Contrast Between Paraphilic Infantilism And Diaper Fetishes
The easiest way to describe paraphilic infantilism is to contrast it with a diaper fetish. A diaper fetishes is a sexual fetish, where th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clothing: Encyclopedia Ii - Clothing - Sexual Fetishes Involving Clothing
Because clothing and adornment are closely related to ideas of human sexuality and sexual display, humans may develop clothing fetishes. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clothing: Encyclopedia Ii - Clothing - Sexual Fetishes Involving Clothing
Because clothing and adornment are closely related to ideas of human sexuality and sexual display, humans may develop clothing fetishes. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Productive Forces: Encyclopedia Ii - Productive Forces - Productive Forces And Techno-fetishism
Other Marxist interpretations, sometimes influenced by postmodernism and the concept of commodity fetishism have by contrast emphasized t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bondage Pornography: Encyclopedia Ii - Bondage Pornography - Detective Magazines Comic Books And Early Fetish Magazines
In the early 20th century, "Detective magazines" covertly provided a way of publishing bondage imagery. Comic books often featured charac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fur Clothing: Encyclopedia Ii - Fur Clothing - Controversy
Animal welfare advocates object to the trapping and killing of wildlife, and the confinement and killing of animals on "fur farms," when ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animal Transformation Fantasy: Encyclopedia Ii - Animal Transformation Fantasy - Possible Transformation Fantasies
As is the case with most sexual interests, fetishized animal transformations frequently involve elements of control. It is not unusual fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fur: Encyclopedia Ii - Fur - Controversy
Animal welfare advocates object to the trapping and killing of wildlife, and the confinement and killing of animals on "fur farms," when ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fur: Encyclopedia Ii - Fur - Fur Clothing
Fur has served as an important source of clothing for humans, especially in colder climates since time immemorial. Modern cultures contin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bondage Pornography: Encyclopedia Ii - Bondage Pornography - Bondage Websites And Bondage Imagery In Mainstream Pornography
As of 2003, specialist bondage magazines have been mostly displaced by the availability of bondage material on the World Wide Web, and th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bondage Pornography: Encyclopedia Ii - Bondage Pornography - Bondage Magazines Return
Dedicated bondage magazines again became popular in America in the 1970s. Publishers of bondage magazines included Harmony Concepts, Inc....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Professional Dominant: Encyclopedia Ii - Professional Dominant - Depictions Of Professional Dominants
The fictional film Maîtresse, starring Gérard Depardieu and Bulle Ogier, depicted a professional dominatrix. Nick Broomfield's document...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Macrophilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Macrophilia - Macro Community
A large section of a nascent heterosexual oriented online community refers to its fetish as “GTS”, an abbreviation for “giantess”...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tickling: Encyclopedia Ii - Tickling - Origins
The word evolved from the Middle English tikelen, perhaps frequentative of ticken, to touch lightly. The sensation of surprise elicited b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Commodity Form Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Commodity Form Theory - The Logical Premise
"Every legal relation" proclaims Pashukanis, "is a relation between subjects". Pashukanis' conceptual account of law begins with the idea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tickling: Encyclopedia Ii - Tickling - Torture
The act of tickling has also been known as a method of torture, in that subjecting an extremely ticklish person to prolonged tickling can...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tickling: Encyclopedia Ii - Tickling - Research
Researcher Sarah-Jayne Blakemore confirmed Darwin's propositions by investigating how the brain distinguishes between sensations we creat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tickling: Encyclopedia Ii - Tickling - Fiction
In some science fiction literature, devices known as tickling boots are depicted as punishment-torture devices employed by some technolog...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tickling: Encyclopedia Ii - Tickling - Society
Tickling is almost certainly a form of social interaction. One feature of tickling is that we do not laugh when we tickle ourselves, only...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corset: Encyclopedia Ii - Corset - Modern History
The corset fell from fashion in the 1920s in Europe and America, replaced by girdles and elastic brassieres, but survived as an article o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - High-heeled Shoe: Encyclopedia Ii - High-heeled Shoe - Men And Heels
Except for cowboy boots, which continued to be used as a riding heel, men's shoes sported only low heels until a brief resurgence in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Erotic Spanking: Encyclopedia Ii - Erotic Spanking - Playful Non-erotic Spanking
Sometimes spanking is done in a playful manner that is neither a form of punishment nor is it intended as an erotic act. A tradition that...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gas Mask: Encyclopedia Ii - Gas Mask - Reaction And Exchange
This principle relies upon the fact that substances that can do harm to humans are usually more reactive than air. This method of separat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gas Mask: Encyclopedia Ii - Gas Mask - History And Development Of The Gas Mask
Contrary to some modern day opinion, there is no single inventor of the "gas mask". In fact, there were patents for such devices as early...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Infantilism: Encyclopedia Ii - Infantilism - Some Infantilist Lifestyles
Infantilists usually combine the submission of the baby role with the fetish of diapers, though not all infantilists practice coprophilia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Productive Forces: Encyclopedia Ii - Productive Forces - Productive Forces And Productivity
Marx's concept of productive forces also has some relevance for discussions in economics about the meaning and measurement of productivit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Infantilism: Encyclopedia Ii - Infantilism - What Ab/dl Is Not
Infantilism - Pedophilia. Pedophilia is a compulsion to treat children as sexual objects. Unlike pedophilia, AB/DL play does not involv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Productive Forces: Encyclopedia Ii - Productive Forces - Productive Forces And Labor
Karl Marx emphasized that, with few exceptions, means of production are not a productive force unless they are actually operated, maintai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Productive Forces: Encyclopedia Ii - Productive Forces - Critique Of Technology
In the romantic or ecological critique of technology, technical progress often does not mean human progress at all. The design of product...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corporal Punishment: Encyclopedia Ii - Corporal Punishment - Modern Usage
In the modern world, corporal punishment remains a common way of disciplining children. Although it has been outlawed in some European co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Infantilism: Encyclopedia Ii - Infantilism - Elements Of Ab/dl Fantasy
Infantilism - Coercion. Force or coercion is sometimes present in fantasies to remove guilt. The AB/DL deflects the guilt of wanting to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corporal Punishment: Encyclopedia Ii - Corporal Punishment - Corporal Punishment In History
Whilst the early history of corporal punishment is unclear, the practice was certainly present in classical civilisations, being used in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corporal Punishment: Encyclopedia Ii - Corporal Punishment - Ritual And Punishment
Corporal punishment in formal settings, such as schools and prisons, is often highly ritualised, sometimes even staged in a highly theatr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corporal Punishment: Encyclopedia Ii - Corporal Punishment - Administration Of Punishment
In formal punishment medical supervision is often considered necessary to assess whether the target of punishment is in a fit condition t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Productive Forces: Encyclopedia Ii - Productive Forces - Productive Force Determinism
According to some Marxist and liberal interpretations, influenced by modernism, social engineering and technocracy, a productive force de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constant Capital: Encyclopedia Ii - Constant Capital - Measurement
Constant capital can be measured as a stock magnitude, i.e., the total value of means of production in use at a specific point in time. I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constant Capital: Encyclopedia Ii - Constant Capital - Why Constant?
Marx calls the constant part of the capital outlay "constant" because according to his labour theory of value, constant capital inputs - ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constant Capital: Encyclopedia Ii - Constant Capital - Criticism
Critics of Marxian value theory object that this attribution of the source of value-added to labour only is arbitrary and political, not ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constant Capital: Encyclopedia Ii - Constant Capital - Marxist Response
According to some Marxists, this type of objection cuts to the heart of the main dispute between Marx and mainstream economic theory -- t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constant Capital: Encyclopedia Ii - Constant Capital - Different Capital Compositions
The ratio, c/v is one measure of the organic composition of capital. As noted above, the distinction between constant and variable capita...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Urination: Encyclopedia Ii - Urination - Social Factors
Urination - Toilet training. Babies have no socialized control over urination within societies that do not practice elimination communi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mammary Intercourse: Encyclopedia Ii - Mammary Intercourse - Slang
The slang terms are considered by many to be vulgar. However, the slang terms are far more common in general usage than the phrase "mamma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constant Capital: Encyclopedia Ii - Constant Capital - Value And Price
Other Marxian economists note that, at any time, most of the stock of objects of value in a society has no actual market price, because t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clothing: Encyclopedia Ii - Clothing - Functional Clothing
Practical functions of clothing include providing the human body protection against weather — strong sunlight, extreme heat or cold, an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clothing: Encyclopedia Ii - Clothing - Clothing Materials
Common clothing materials include: Cloth, typically made of cotton, flax, wool, hemp, ramie, or silk Down for down-filled parkas Fur Lea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Physical Punishment: Encyclopedia Ii - Physical Punishment - Modern Usage
Although the corporal punishment of adults has now been abandoned by many countries, it is still retained as a judicial sanction in some ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clothing: Encyclopedia Ii - Clothing - Clothing Maintenance
Clothing, once manufactured, suffers assault both from within and from without. The human body inside sheds skin cells and body oils, and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clothing: Encyclopedia Ii - Clothing - Origin And History Of Clothing
According to archaeologists and anthropologists, the earliest clothing probably consisted of fur, leather, leaves or grass, draped, wrapp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clothing: Encyclopedia Ii - Clothing - Clothing As Social Message
Social messages sent by clothing, accessories, and decorations can involve social status, occupation, ethnic and religious affiliation, m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paraphilia: Encyclopedia Ii - Paraphilia - Common Paraphilias
The following paraphilias are sufficiently common in the general population to be frequently observed in clinical literature, as well as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Physical Punishment: Encyclopedia Ii - Physical Punishment - Corporal Punishment In History
Whilst the early history of corporal punishment is unclear, the practice was certainly present in classical civilizations, being used in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clothing: Encyclopedia Ii - Clothing - Early 21st-century Clothing Styles
Western fashion has to a certain extent become international fashion, as Western media and styles penetrate all parts of the world. Very ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Physical Punishment: Encyclopedia Ii - Physical Punishment - Types And Means
While it is possible to classify corporal punishments by the categories of its scope of application (e.g. educational including parental ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sexuality And Gender Identity-based Cultures: Encyclopedia Ii - Sexuality And Gender Identity-based Cultures - Influence On Culture At Large
Sexual minority cultures frequently and consistently influence the broader culture at large, including straight culture. Slang frequently...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clothing: Encyclopedia Ii - Clothing - Clothing As Functional Technology
The practical function of clothing is to protect the human body from weather — strong sunlight, extreme heat or cold, and precipitation...   » Read the article