Definitions
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- A believer in fetiches.
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- noun Archaic form of
fetishist .
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Examples
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I think that one of this trend launcher was Romain Slocombe, a french fetichist writer/photographer/drawer/movie maker, who has a crush for Japan.
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Thus, in the homosexual male, erection occurs at the sight or remembrance of a man; in the fetichist, the idea of the fetich is operative -- in the case of the body-linen fetichist, for instance, the idea of articles of underclothing.
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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Thus, the homosexual tells us of a peculiar impulse he felt in childhood to kiss his tutor; we learn from the hair-fetichist that when still a child he loved to play with girls 'hair; and so on.
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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A hair-fetichist, whose case I had occasion to study carefully when, at the age of fifteen, he had to stand his trial on account of cutting off girls 'plaits of hair, informed me that for one or two years before he first committed this offence, he had experienced
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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An underclothing fetichist began at the age of seven to be greatly interested in his sister's and in the maidservant's underclothing, touching such articles of clothing as often as he could, and pressing up against them in a caressing way.
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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For the foot-fetichist, on the other hand, the foot or the shoe is not a mere instrument, but a true symbol; the focus of his worship, an idealized object which he is content to contemplate or reverently touch.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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We may perhaps connect with this phenomenon the attraction which muddy shoes often exert over the shoe-fetichist, and the curious way in which, as we have seen (p. 18), Restif de la Bretonne associates his love of neatness in women with his attraction to the feet, the part, he remarks, least easy to keep clean.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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It is to the extreme individualization involved by the developments of erotic symbolism that the fetichist owes his morbid and perilous isolation.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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Even here, therefore, there is really what may fairly be regarded as a congenital element; and, moreover, there is reason to believe that the erotic fetichist usually displays the further congenital element of hereditary neurosis.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899
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The fetichist now follows an impersonal and abstract symbol withersoever it may lead him.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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