26 Dec 2019, 17:03
essanym Wrote:Usually "addiction" refers to a harmful disorder, but only some fetishes are harmful, most of them are harmless.Like Ra Wrote:I define fetish as a stable repeatable stimulus to get dopamine. So, food, collecting something, drugs, even excessive sleeping are all fetishes in this sense.
Seems like a fetish is just a sexually oriented addiction. Saying, "I have a latex fetish" is the same as saying "I am addicted to latex". If what I just said is accurate, then it certainly explains some things about me. I apparently have a very addictive personality and it's something I've always struggled with. In my 20's, I used a lot of drugs for a few periods in my life and I always took it to extremes. Nowadays, I'm living a regular adult life free of extraneous chemicals but my fetish play is constantly taken to extremes. Unlike drugs, however, I have no intention of rehabilitating myself from my fetishes.