I'm not going to disagree but I think I've run across SOME sort of logic for one of the two you nod to. I find it a little weird even then, but it did come to mind: There was a clip from some reality show where a guy was saying how he always looks at a girl's feet because if they're healthy and clean and well-maintained with tidy, clean, neat nails and no bunions or callouses, etc, then you know she takes good care of herself and maintains herself. But like, he was SERIOUSLY fixated on her feet, to the extent that yes, the humor comes from "dude, just call it a fetish, that's what it is".
So like, I imagine for some guys (it's almost always guys who have the really odd fetishes like that), it's a weird way to filter based on stuff like that.
There's also the fact of feet being often hidden (by socks and shoes) or ignored - though not as much as they used to be; many other cultures do not sexualize breasts the way we do, seeing them as "for babies to eat from", but because we hide them/emphasize them in a different way, they become sexual to our culture and many men will fixate on those in particular. The difference is that because our culture already recognizes breasts as de facto sexualized, it's not seen as a "fetish" by the mainstream.
But there have been cases in history I think where other body parts have been focused on to weird extents like that; even today there are cultures where it is scandalous for a woman to show her hair, or an ankle, and in ancient China small feet were such a zeroed-in-on beauty ideal that footbinding became common practice, similar to how corsets became the fashion in the West with the popularity of small waists and "hourglass" figures.
tldr; fetishes are weird, but mainstream culture can be just as odd?
(though...ugh. Yeah, poop is a personal squick of mine and I'm STILL not sure, beyond the fact of it being taboo in general anyway, why anybody would be turned on by that one >_>)
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Date: 2016-07-25 04:51 pm (UTC)From:So like, I imagine for some guys (it's almost always guys who have the really odd fetishes like that), it's a weird way to filter based on stuff like that.
There's also the fact of feet being often hidden (by socks and shoes) or ignored - though not as much as they used to be; many other cultures do not sexualize breasts the way we do, seeing them as "for babies to eat from", but because we hide them/emphasize them in a different way, they become sexual to our culture and many men will fixate on those in particular. The difference is that because our culture already recognizes breasts as de facto sexualized, it's not seen as a "fetish" by the mainstream.
But there have been cases in history I think where other body parts have been focused on to weird extents like that; even today there are cultures where it is scandalous for a woman to show her hair, or an ankle, and in ancient China small feet were such a zeroed-in-on beauty ideal that footbinding became common practice, similar to how corsets became the fashion in the West with the popularity of small waists and "hourglass" figures.
tldr; fetishes are weird, but mainstream culture can be just as odd?
(though...ugh. Yeah, poop is a personal squick of mine and I'm STILL not sure, beyond the fact of it being taboo in general anyway, why anybody would be turned on by that one >_>)