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fetishism /fet·ish·ism/ (-izm) 1. worship of fetishes. 2. a paraphilia marked by recurrent sexual urges for and fantasies of using fetishes, usually articles of women's clothing, for sexual arousal or orgasm. transvestic fetishism a paraphilia of heterosexual males, characterized by recurrent, intense sexual urges, arousal, or orgasm associated with fantasized or actual dressing in clothing of the opposite sex.
Fetishism Obtaining sexual arousal using or thinking about an inanimate object or part of the body. Mentioned in: Sexual Perversions |
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His examples, mostly of Western art and Western audiences, demonstrate how human bodies have been read as signs, and images (even abstract ones) have been treated fetishistically, as if they were human actors. The narrative spareness and ponderous tempo of Graham's film, however, remove the Rheinmetall from any such worldly associations: A series of lingering close-ups make it initially seem that the artist's sole aim was to pore fetishistically over every one of the machine's precisely tooled components. Thomson reports that seeing the leg-locks, thumb-screws and the like, "all fetishistically displayed in Turin's Museum of Fine Art, Levi felt disgusted. |
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