How are fetishes developed and made?

[Cicero]

So I have really weird fetishes, like (for guys) arms, abs, pecs, and body hair. What makes fetishes in our mind, and what exactly is a fetish? Whats yours?

[PrimedPenguin]

What causes a fetish: There are a variety of theories about what causes fetishes, but no agreement or “evidence” that points to a single explanation. Some people feel that they have cultivated a fetish while others identify a specific moment or time period in their past, often during childhood, when a fetish was created.

What is a fetish: A fetish also known as paraphilia is a sexual disorder where sexual arousal is accomplished through seeing or touching an object or non-sexual part of the body. The individual becomes fixated on the object while having sexual fantasies. The fetishist likes to have physical contact with the object and will often ask a sexual partner to be involved with the item that causes arousal.

I hope this answers your question

[FergusDunn]

What causes a fetish: There are a variety of theories about what causes fetishes, but no agreement or “evidence” that points to a single explanation. Some people feel that they have cultivated a fetish while others identify a specific moment or time period in their past, often during childhood, when a fetish was created.

What is a fetish: A fetish also known as paraphilia is a sexual disorder where sexual arousal is accomplished through seeing or touching an object or non-sexual part of the body. The individual becomes fixated on the object while having sexual fantasies. The fetishist likes to have physical contact with the object and will often ask a sexual partner to be involved with the item that causes arousal.

I hope this answers your question


I cannot agree on the disorder bit - see it is included in this

A sexual fetish may be regarded as an enhancing element to a romantic/sexual relationship "achieved in ordinary ways (e.g. having the partner wear a particular garment)" or as a mental disorder/disorder of sexual preference if it causes significant psychosocial distress for the person or has detrimental effects on important areas of their life.[2] Arousal from a particular body part is classified as partialism.[3]

which is from the wiki page


I guess its a self defined - thing maybe not a question science can answer.

Maybe I could say that some things on a personal level - early experiences
make a fetish or form one -

*claiming the whatever amendment #

Not sure if I could disclose but sports kit - showers etc


But a good question to ask -

[Danny_boi 16]

Your brain has a connection from you senses (sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell). some of these connections, in error, connect with the 'arousal' center of the brain.

[PrimedPenguin]

True I should of worded it differently. But like you said a fetish is self defined. However the official definition is " 1 a*:*an object (as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner;broadly*:*a material object regarded with superstitious or extravagant trust or reverenceb*:*an object of irrational reverence or obsessive devotion*:*prepossession*c*:*an object or bodily part whose real or fantasied presence is psychologically necessary for sexual gratification and that is an object of fixation to the extent that it may interfere with complete sexual expression 2*:*a rite or cult of fetish worshipers"