Getting Freaky With It

Fetishes, Paraphilias, and Just Plain Freaky

By Norische

Fetish
The first thing that must be discussed is what exactly is a fetish. In psychiatry a fetish is an object, action or bodily part whose real or fantasized presence is psychologically necessary for sexual gratification, it is also thought that said fixation may be to the extent in which it can impede on the "normal" sexual expression of an individual.

When someone has a fetish it can vary greatly in degree; from a mild attraction to a serious diversion. However, a fetish is not generally considered abnormal until it effects other social aspects of an individual’s life or if the fetish itself is considered socially unacceptable even dangerous.

Fetishes may be based on objects, such as shoes, lingerie, or leather. They may be based on actions, such as sneezing, spanking, or the consumption of blood. A Fetish may also be based on a bodily part, such as hair, feet, or eyes; a fetish is not generally based on sexual organs however.

Paraphilias
In Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine a paraphilia was defined as:

"A condition in which a person’s sexual arousal and gratification depends on a fantasy theme of an unusual situation or object that becomes the principle focus of sexual behavior."

In psychiatry paraphilia is described by DSM-IV as:

"Sexual impulse disorders characterized by intensely arousing, recurrent sexual fantasies, urges and behaviors considered deviant with respect to cultural norms and that produce clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of psychosocial functioning."

In layman’s terms a paraphilia is a sexual behavior that becomes so obsessive to an individual that it impedes on their functioning as a productive individual within societies acceptable parameters

In My terms some one is too busy trying to get their rocks off that they can’t think straight. Ok, ok, so that explanation is a little off, but in it’s most drastic of forms a paraphilia can be extremely distracting, even to the point of controlling everything a person thinks or does. There are some people that get jobs as a hair dresser just because they are sexually attracted to hair and by being a hair stylist they are not only able to participate in their fetish and fantasies but they get paid for doing something they adore.

Freaky
Freaky, this one is a little harder to define. Normally something is considered freaky when it is unusual, new, different, or just plain strange. However to each individual freaky is defined differently, it is one hundred percent based on an individual’s personal preferences and opinions. What is one man’s freak may be another man’s common everyday occurrence. Most of society would think that BDSM is freaky. To someone within the BDSM lifestyle however things such as bondage, flogging, service, and even slavery are commonplace, there is nothing freaky about any of them.

Some people may describe freaky as anything that is outside the socially acceptable norms of society. This definition would however depend on which society or culture you’re basing your norms on. In some cultures it is quite normal for a woman to be circumcised, having both the clitoris and the labia removed in an effort to ensure chastity in young females. In another culture it is seen as completely acceptable to beat oneself with chains, switches, or whips in a effort to purify oneself during religious practices.

In yet another culture young males that are entering puberty voluntarily allow themselves to be pierced on the chest or back by large hooks and to be suspended from those hooks until the skin finally gives way leaving a horrible scar, all of which is seen as an acceptable right of passage.

Freaky is simply an opinion, nothing more nothing less. Here is a list of common and not so common fetishes, paraphilias, and just plain freaky stuff.

Acrophilia – Arousal from heights and high altitudes

Agalmatophilia – Arousal from statues or manikins

Agonophilia – Arousal from your partner pretending to struggle

Agoraphilia – Arousal from open space or having sex in public

Agrexophilia – Arousal from others knowing you are having sex

Albutophilia – Arousal from water

Algophilia – Arousal from experiencing pain

Allopellia – Arousal from watching other people in sexual activities

Allorgasmia – Arousal from fantasizing about someone other than you partner

Allotriorasty – Arousal from partner of different nationalities or races

Alphamegamia – Arousal from having a partner of a different age group

Altocalciphilia – Arousal from high heels

Amaurophilia – Arousal from blindfolds or arousal from a blind sexual partner

Amomaxiphilia – Arousal from sex in a parked car

Amelotasis – Arousal from a partner with the absence of a limb

Amychesiphilia – Arousal from scratching

Anasteemaphilia – Arousal from a shorter or taller partner

Androminetophilia – Arousal from female partners whom dress like males

Androsodomy – Anal sex with a male partner

Anililagnia – Arousal from a older female partner

Anomeatia – Anal sex with a female partner

Antholagnia – Arousal from smelling flowers

Anthropophagy – Arousal from consuming human flesh or blood

Apotemnophilia – Arousal from someone that has lost a limb

Archnephilia – Arousal from spiders

Asthenolagnia – Arousal from being humiliated or weakness

Autogynephilia – Arousal form crossdressing

Automysophulia – Arousal from being dirty or defiled

Barosmia – Arousal from smell

Basoexia – Arousal from kissing

Blastolania – Arousal from younger females

Candalagnia – Arousal from watching your spouse have sex with someone else

Capnogalia – Arousal from watching others smoke

Catamites – Young gay male lovers

Cathterohilia – Arousal from inserting a catheter

Chezolagnia – Masturbating while defecating

Choreophilia – Dancing oneself to orgasm

Chrematistophilia – Person aroused by having to pay for sex, or from being robbed

Coprolalia – Arousal from hearing obscene language

Coprplagnia – Arousal from eating excrement

Coprophilia – Arousal associated with the act of defecation

Cratolagnia – Arousal from the strength of partner

Crurofact – Arousal from Legs

Dacrylagnia – Arousal from seeing tears in the eyes of a partner

Defecolagnia – Arousal from defication

Defilement – Arousal from seeing partner or self becoming wet or dirty

Dendrophilia – Arousal from tree or fertility worship of them

Dermagraphism – Arousal from marks left on skin of partner by biting, scratching or

Dermaphilia – Arousal from skin

Doraphilia – Arousal from fur, leather, or skin

Dysmorphophilia – Arousal from deformed or physically imparted partners

Ecdemolagnia – Arousal from traveling or being away from home

Ecdyosis – Arousal from removing clothing in front of other people

Ecouteurism – Arousal from listening to others having sex

Electrophilia – Arousal from electrical stimulus

Endytophilia – Arousal from partners who are clothed

Eproctolagniac – Arousal from flatulence

Emetophilia – Arousal from vomit or vomiting

Flagellation – Sexual excitement associated with the act of whipping or being whipped

Flatuphilia – Arousal from having partner pass gas

Fretrilagnia – Arousal from having sex with one’s brother

Frotteurism – Sexual excitement obtained by rubbing against a fully clothed body of Another person

Galateism – Sexual attraction to statues

Gerontophilia – Sexual arousal from sex with the elderly

Gomphopothic – Arousal from the sight of teeth

Graophilia – Arousal from a older person

Gregomulcia – Arousal from being fondled in a crowd

Gynelophilious – Arousal from pubic hair

Gynemimetphilia – Arousal by a male impersonating a female

Harpaxophilia – Arousal from being robbed

Hemotigolagnia – Arousal from bloody sanitary pads

Heterophilia – Arousal from members of the opposite sex

Hierophilia – Arousal from sacred objects

Hirutophilia – Arousal from armpit hair

Hodophilia – Arousal from traveling

Homilophilia – Arousal from giving or hearing sermons

Hybristophilia – Arousal from being with someone that has committed a crime

Hygrophilia – Arousal from body fluids

Iantronudia – Arousal from exposing oneself to a physician

Iconolagny – Arousal from pictures of statues or nude people

Idrophrodisia – Arousal from the odor of perspiration, especially from the genitals

Infantilism – Cross dressing as a young child for sex play

Infibulation – Arousal from mutilation of one’s own genitals

Ipserotic – Narcissism

Jactitation – Arousal from talking to others about their own sexual exploits

Juvenilism – Dressing or acting the role of a juvenile, sometimes sexual

Kleptolagnia – Arousal from stealing

Klismaphilia – Arousal from giving or receiving an enema

Knismolagnia – Arousal from tickling

Lactaphillia – Arousal from lactating breasts

Lygerastia – Arousal from darkness

Macrogenitalism – Arousal from large genitals

Maieusiophilia – Arousal from pregnant women

Mammagymnophilia – Arousal from female breast

Martymachlia – Group sex

Mascholphilous – Arousal from armpits

Masochism – Arousal from having pain inflicted on oneself

Matrincest – Sexual action with one’s mother

Matronolagnia – Arousal from an older female partner

Mazoperosis – Mutilation of breasts

Melolagnia – Arousal from music

Menophilist – Arousal from menstruating women

Merinthophilia – Arousal from being bound

Miscegenation – Sex between races

Mizoscopia – Arousal from seeing others in coitus

Moriaphilia – Arousal from telling sexual jokes

Morphophilia – Arousal from a person with a different physique

Mysophilia – Sexual interest in filth,

Nanophilia – Sexual Attraction to a short partner

Nasophilia – Arousal to noses

Naphephilia – Arousal from being touched or touching

Narcissism – self love

Narratophilia – Arousal from discussing sex with others

Nasolingus – Arousal from sucking the nose of a partner

Necrochlesis – Sex with a female corpse

Necrophilia – Arousal from sex with the dead

Neophilia – Arousal from novelty or change

Normophilia – Arousal by acts considered normal by their religion or society

Nosolagnia – Arousal from knowing partner has a terminal illness

Ochlophilia – Arousal from being in a crowd

Oculophilia – Arousal from eyes

Oculotictus – Licking a partner’s eyeball

Odaxelangnia – Arousal from biting

Odontophilia – Arousal from teeth

Omolagnia – Arousal from nudity

Ondinisme – Arousal from urine

Ophidiophilia – Arousal from snakes

Ordune – Arousal from photographs of sex

Osculocentric – Arousal from kissing

Osphresiolagnia – Arousal from rank odors

Pageism – A male submitting to a female

Paraphilia – Sexual arousal in response to unusual objects or situations

Parascopism – Voyeurism, like through bedroom windows

Parthenophilia – Sexual desire for virgins

Patrolagnia – Sex with one’s own father

Pecattiphilia – Arousal from sinning

Pediophilia – Arousal from dolls

Pedophilia – Arousal from young children

Phallophilia – Arousal from large penises

Phlebotomy – Arousal from bloodletting

Phobophilia – Arousal from hate or fear

Phygephilia – Arousal from being a fugitive

Pictophilia - Arousal from pictures, movies or video with a sexual nature

Picquerism – Sexual gratification from repeated stabbings or wounding of another person

Pluralism – Arousal from engaging in sex with groups

Podophilia – Arousal from feet

Psycholagny – Arousal from psychic or mental stimulation

Psychrophilia – Arousal from being cold

Psychrophilia – Arousal from cold weather

Pubephilia – Arousal from pubic hair

Pygophilemania – Arousal from kissing buttocks

Pygophilia – Arousal from coming in contact with buttocks

Pygotripsis – Arousal from rubbing buttocks

Pyrophilia – Arousal from fire

Raptophilia – Arousal from only raping a victim

Renifleur – Arousal from the smell of urine or sniffing underwear

Retifism – Arousal from shoes

Rhobdophilia – Arousal from being flagellated

Sadism – Arousal from inflicting pain on others

Salirophilia – Arousal by ingesting human sweat or saliva

Sarmassophilia – Arousal from kneading flesh

Scopophilia – Arousal from being stared at

Scoptolagnia – Arousal from looking at the genitals of the opposite sex

Siderodromophilia – Arousal from trains

Sitophilia – Arousal from food

Sleeping Princess Syndrome – Arousal from those that appear to be sleeping or are asleep

Somnophilia – Arousal from fondling strangers in their sleep

Sororilagnia – Sex with one’s own sister

Spectrophilia – Arousal from images in mirror

Sthenolagnia – Arousal from demonstrations of strength or muscle

Stigmatiphilia – Arousal from a partner whom is stigmatized (tattoo’s, piercings, scars)

Strabismus – Arousal from the eyes of a partner

Stupprator – Male aroused by virgins

Symphorophilia – Arousal from arranging a disaster

Tantaloglagnia – Arousal from teasing

Taphephilia – Arousal from being buried alive

Teledildonics – Arousal from computer sex games

Thalpotentiginy – Arousal from heat

Thesauromania – Compulsion to collect object or clothing belonging to females

Thlipsosis – Arousal from pinching others

Thygatria – Sex between father and daughter

Timophilia – Arousal from gold or wealth

Tithiolagnia – Arousal from nursing

Transvestophilia – Arousal from cross dressing

Traumaphilia – Arousal from wounds or trauma

Trichophilia – Arousal from hair

Tripsolagnia – Arousal from having hair shampooed

Trisophilia – Arousal from massage

Troilism – Arousal from being a third party in a sex scene

Undinism – Arousal from water

Vampirism – Arousal from consuming blood

Vicilangnia – Arousal from bondage

Voyerism – Arousal from seeing people in the nude or in sexual acts

Xenolimia – Arousal from strangers

Zelophilia – Arousal from being jealousy

Zoophilia – Arousal from sex with animals

These are just a few of the Fetishes, Paraphilias and just plain freaky things I have found out there. There are thousands of interesting words that you may enjoy looking up, expand your mind and your vocabulary.