Yup, with BEWD and Matriach. It’s cool though, I know it was an aside, it’s just a thread monster black magic word.
Anyway, the book I’m reading has so far broken down sexual fetishes for males to be more along the type of fixating on or more body parts in specific in relation to bodies.
Gay man and heterosexual and homosexual females seemed were more apt to partake in S&M, and females in general seemed more apt to fetish over food. Both men and women seemed to fetish over objects. Everyday things like shoes, ties, laces, etc…
The book went further to explain that since female clothing is deemed more sensually provocative in general that women are all technically fetishists for enjoying clothing. I don’t agree with that, personally.
On the other side of a similar token, it went on to explain that men that fetish over women’s clothing fall into two categories.
Cross-dressers, who do it as a fetish, do it because they merely enjoy the clothing.With transvestites there is a sexual component to their attraction to the clothes, this is called eroticism, not to be confused with fetishism, which it usually is.
Maybe it’s cross-dressers that have the erotic component and transvestites with the fetish, I can’t remember or find it right now.
Historically, women cross-dress much less often to eroticize over men’s clothing, and more often to be seen, literally or figuratively as male to overcome their gender boundaries. A perfect example being a woman that dresses like a man to join the military back in the day.
I myself am much more interested in the the word fetish, than erotic.
Let’s look at the word’s history as provided by the book;
"The word ‘fetish’ derives from the Portuguese ‘feitico’, a name given to popular talismans in the middle ages- often illegal and/or heretical. The word subsequently developed in popular usage to mean fated, charmed, bewitched. Originally, the word ‘feitico’ came from the Latin (‘facticium’), which meant ‘artificial’, before it came to mean ‘witchcraft’. As William Pietz has identified, the Portuguese words more often used to designate witchcraft were ‘feitico’, ‘feiticeiro’ and ‘feiticaria’ and were part of the vocabulary of the fifteenth-century Portuguese who sailed to West-Africa’. Earlier accounts of daily life in Portugal in the Middle Ages, where Catholic religious ideas determined Christian witchcraft law, indicate a prior connection between witchcraft and fetishism.[…]
Goes on to explain that any item that you are extremely fond of could be considered a fetish.
I was trying to respond to those who seemed to have a problem with trans people. Didn’t know this topic had been covered before…