(n.) A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being.
(n.) Any object to which one is excessively devoted.
(a.) Alt. of Fetishistic
Example Sentences:
(1) A case is presented of a patient who was arrested along several developmental lines and had suffered from a wool fetish.
(2) I mean, there are balloon-popping fetishes and farting.
(3) Valid and reliable scales measuring the typological variables of erotic partner preference (androphilia and gynephilia), cross-gender fantasy in association with sexual arousal (cross-gender fetishism), and degree of feminine gender identity in childhood were used.
(4) The question which has been addressed in this paper is that of how broad or narrow our definition of fetishism should be.
(5) Direct observations of behavior evoked by a fetish object (wet shoe) in one patient are reported.
(6) The buildings appear to be an ersatz nod to the old world by a designer with a stucco fetish, and are hard to ignore due to the blitzkrieg of colour unleashed on innocent passers-by.
(7) Similarities and differences between male and female fetishism are discussed, with attention given to the greater complexity of the perversion as it occurs in a woman.
(8) The author, after giving an outline of various theories of the genesis of sexual malpractices in general and so-called fetishistic practices in particular, tries to show, by reference to the behavior shown by several normally intelligent and socially fully integrated young persons, that juvenile fetishism cannot be considered a perversion in the proper sense of the word.
(9) Or the noughties, when the creed of food fetishism hit Borough , bringing with it pork pies that cost as much as a pig, fruits we couldn’t name, herbs bearing the names of the people who found them?
(10) The author discusses the implications of using buspirone in the treatment of both inhibited sexual desire and transvestic fetishism.
(11) 9.05pm BST Cardinals 0 - Pirates 0, bottom of the 4th If you have a fetish for routine groundball outs, and Rule 34 suggests that someone is, this game is basically NC-17.
(12) Feminine behaviors during the childhood and adolescence of volunteer male transvestites who had shown a period of fetishism were investigated.
(13) And also, undoubtedly, because the car and the artwork are both commodity fetishes whose place in culture is more than utilitarian.
(14) Other entries in the book include a list of safe and dangerous vaginal stimulators ("Dil-dos and Dil-don'ts"), "Bestselling Sex Toys Of All Time" (Rubik's Pubes and Horny Horny Hippos) and an illustrated spot-the-fetish gallery.
(15) In the final months of their marriage, Alex developed a sinister fetish.
(16) Hypersexuality and fetishism appeared in a patient with multiple sclerosis whose MRI scan showed frontal and temporal lesions.
(17) The adoption of a fetish affords protection, as it serves to negate total psychic inner deadness.
(18) It is suggested that whatever the pregenital determinants of this perversion are, fetishism makes special reference to problems related to the phallic position (a concept suggested as an alternative to the notion of a developmental genetic phallic phase).
(19) This is, after all, a musician, actress and multimedia performance artist who as a kid attended a nursery school where there were rumoured to be satanic cults, afterwards confessing that she was pissed off that there actually weren't; who appeared in a Calvin Klein "heroin chic" ad campaign that led to dope dealers on her block in New York naming a strain of junk after her; who has been a wrestler and appeared in numerous Super 8 horror and fetish movies; who was mugged to within an inch of her life but survived; who mimes onstage fornication with a skeleton symbolising her deceased boyfriend and other such transgressive acts including cracking paint-filled eggs on her vulva; who has cavorted in the recording studio with notorious coprophiliac GG Allin; who was into body mutilation and dysmorphia and so wanted to challenge preconceived notions of female sexuality that she SEWED UP HER VAGINA.
(20) The clinical example confirms the existence of fetishism in women and suggests that subtle forms of the perversion may go unnoticed and be more prevalent than previously realized.
Nonsexual
Definition:
(a.) Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The highest incidence lies among school-age children and might indicate a nonsexual route of chlamydial infection.
(2) Anti-HIV-1-positive hemophiliacs had not transmitted to their nonsexual household contacts before study entry and did not do so subsequently, indicating that the risk from even close nonsexual contact is extremely low.
(3) Relationships between sexual attitudes and the drawing of nonsexual body parts were generally not significant.
(4) He was a vegan, sober, nonsexual God-botherer partying in the blood-soaked Meatpacking District with the sex-and-druggers.
(5) According to the model, hostile childhood experiences affect involvement in delinquency, leading to aggression through two paths: (a) hostile attitudes and personality, which result in coerciveness both in sexual and nonsexual interactions, and (b) sexual promiscuity, which, especially in interaction with hostility, produces sexual aggression.
(6) Case studies suggest that nonsexually abused children can manifest an increase in erotic behavior on the basis of unusually intense but nonabusive sexual experiences or as part of a compulsion.
(7) We conclude that the provision of FPC to nonsexually active and sexually active teens does not appear to promote the onset of sexual activity significantly among the non-sexually active group, although it significantly increases contraceptive use among the sexually active group.
(8) Ten nonsexual measures were significantly correlated with sexual activity.
(9) We also found differences in acceptance of nonsexual aggression and in subjects' beliefs that they might actually use force against women.
(10) However, the high prevalence of the infection among the virginal women indicated that transmission of HPV by nonsexual modes was common.
(11) No evidence exists for direct contact spread through shaking hands and nonsexual touching.
(12) The results showed that in none of the countries did rape increase more than nonsexual violent crimes.
(13) The presence or absence of various sexual and nonsexual anatomical features, as well as length and width measurements, were assessed in the drawing of nudes by 17 male and 23 female undergraduates.
(14) The disease may be caused by sexually or nonsexually transmitted organisms.
(15) This discussion of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) covers the incidence of AIDS in Europe and the US, the means of spread, the pattern of incidence of aids within the population, prevalence of specific antibodies, heterosexual transmission, AIDS and HTLV-III infection in Central Africa, control of spread of the infection (public education, counseling, treating for antibodies to HTLV-III, control of nonsexual transmismission, and surveillanc); and confidentiality and other social issues.
(16) This study confirms that sexual activity is an important determinant of CMV infection in both white and black women; however, the relative contributions of sexual and nonsexual transmission of CMV apparently vary and require further investigation.
(17) Similar fate maps are obtained using data from gynandromorphs and from marked Y chromosome (nonsexually dimorphic) mosaics.
(18) Transmission to nonsexual household contacts has appeared to be rare.
(19) Nonsexual transmission, although possible, is far less likely.
(20) The sex steroids exert profound effects on the function of many nonsexual organs; particularly the skin, bone, liver, salivary glands, and oral tissues.