In honor of our discussion about reality TV on Wednesday, I watched a few minutes of Jerry Springer. It was surprisingly tame. A guy was stammering about his foot fetish (“these are my foot notes” he said of a foot scrapbook he had with him) while weird puppets in the background re-enacting…. Something. Then the woman who he was cheating on his wife with came out and he sucked her toes. They tried to be outrageous, and ended up being forcefully sassy.
Then I watched the BBC clip on YouTube and thought about fetishes that celebrate distortions.... there are an awful lot of them. I think fetishes are interesting because to an outsider, they can appear grotesque rather than fabulously erotic.
This is a list of fetishes on wikipedia. There are more than I could have ever imagined.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paraphilias
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