Return to. Fetishism is a fixation on an inanimate object or body part that is not primarily sexual in nature, and the compulsive need for its use in order to obtain sexual gratification. Fetishism Sexual Acts Depersonalized The sexual acts of fetishists are characteristically depersonalized and objectified, health. discovery. com/centers/sex/sexpedia/fetishism. htm. health. discovery. com/centers/sex/sexpedia/fetishism. html. A fetish (from French ftiche; from Portuguese feitio; from Latin facticius, "artificial" and facere, "to make") is an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular a man-made object. en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Fetishism. People can turn anything into a fetish. There are different degrees of fetishism that go from mild to extreme. www. askmen. com/dating/vanessa/25_love_secrets. html. While fetish can come to seem like any sexual practice that makes the vanilla world the slightly derogatory name that fetishists use for anybody who's not into fetishism uncomfortable and while there may be no such thing as a typical fetishist, a few commonalities have emerged over the past few days as I. www. msnbc. msn. com/id/14061671/. Andrew Lang : Fetishism and Spiritualism We shall now endeavour to make it probable that Fetishism (the belief in the souls tenanting inanimate objects) may also have sources which perhaps are not normal, or which at all events seemed supernormal to savages. www. psychanalyse-paris. com/852-Fetishism-and-Spirituali. www. psychanalyse-paris. com/852-Fetishism-and-Spiritualism. html. Fetishism is the use of an inanimate object or a specific part of the body for physical or mental sexual stimulation. The objects are not used solely in cross-dressing (female clothing in Transvestic Fetishism) and are not equipment intended to stimulate the genitals (such as a vibrator). www. psychnet-uk. com/dsm_iv/fetishism. htm www. psychnet-uk. com/dsm_iv/fetishism. htm. Fetishism means the religion of the fetish. The word fetish is derived through the Portuguese feitio from the Latin factitius (facere, to do, or to make), signifying made by art, artificial (cf. Old English fetys in Chaucer). C. de Brosses first employed fetishism as a general descriptive term, www. newadvent. org/cathen/06052b. htm. British Blogs The early morning news - as widely expected, Tories win Henley, John Howell (Conservative): 19,796 (57%, 3%) It was considered one of their safest seats but the shock news is that Labour came fifth behind the LibDems, Green party and even the BNP. www. britishblogs. co. uk/categories/fetishism/ www. britishblogs. co. uk/categories/fetishism/. Embed URL. bb&ob; border:1px solid #ffffff; &cb;.