08-28-2003, 11:15 PM
Well, here's an explanation I read somewhere else (can't remember precicely where, tho): Western society and many others basically don't want you to have fetishes. That's because ever since the roman empire collapsed we had the church in power, telling us to have as little sex as possible, no sex before/outside of marriage, try not to enjoy it, shit like that. This only started changing in the late fifites/early sixties. And even though most people now consider it all right to have specific sexual preferences and talking about sex has become an everyday thing, our society is, on the whole, still rather prude. This makes having a fetish, especially one of the naughtier ones, still a sort of taboo thing. It's against the unwritten rules. Breaking these rules and getting away with it makes you feel powerful. And people like feeling powerful. Therefore, a lot of people like having fetishes... Except for the people who don't have the power to break the rules. I suppose there are individual explanations for all the different fetishes... But all in all, this seems pretty convincing.