(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.
Pervert
Definition:
(v. t.) To turnanother way; to divert.
(v. t.) To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt; also, to misapply; to misinterpret designedly; as, to pervert one's words.
(v. i.) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.
(n.) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, especially in religion; -- opposed to convert. See the Synonym of Convert.
Example Sentences:
(1) He denies perverting the course of justice by asking his then wife Vicky Pryce to take speeding penalty points onto her driving licence.
(2) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(3) Indonesia’s largest Muslim group, Nahdlatul Ulama, in February described gay lifestyles as perverted and a desecration of human dignity.
(4) "Pulpit poofs" were hounded from the church, playground workers were exposed as "lesbians plotting to pervert nursery tots", celebrities such as Kenny Everett, Russell Harty and Freddie Mercury were hounded as diseased vermin.
(5) On the face of it, Huhne's guilty plea last month on a charge of perverting the course of justice over a 2003 speeding case ought to have killed the Liberal Democrats' hopes of holding the seat.
(6) Following an eight-month trial, Brooks was in June cleared at the Old Bailey of conspiring to hack phones, illegal payments to a public official and perverting the course of justice.
(7) For instance Alive appealed to young men who liked true adventure stories, but my next book, Polonaise , was a novel about a sexually perverted Polish intellectual.
(8) Milonov later tweeted that "completely boycotting" the show was not necessary, but said the "pervert from Austria" should be excluded.
(9) The pair were given identical jail terms for perverting the course of justice on Monday afternoon following a sentencing and mitigation hearing at which they spent almost three hours sitting just over a metre apart in the dock without acknowledging the other's presence.
(10) Jimmy Savile was left free to sexually attack nearly 70 victims, including one five-year-old, over half a century in his home city of Leeds despite rumours among local police officers that he was a "pervert".
(11) Sampson recommended that the junior officer who had carried out the destruction be granted immunity from prosecution in return for giving evidence against the MI5 chief and his deputy, whom he believed should be prosecuted for “doing an act with intent and tending to pervert the course of public justice”.
(12) Six others face one charge of conspiring to pervert the course of justice, including her husband Charlie, her former personal assistant Cheryl Carter and her ex-chauffeur Paul Edwards.
(13) He directed them to acquit Payne of manslaughter and of intending to pervert the course of justice.
(14) We are going to mourn our dead ... but tomorrow, we will kiss each other like the abominable perverts we are,” journalist Luc Vaillant said in a column published in the left-wing newspaper Libération.
(15) He was found guilty in his absence in 2008 for theft, furnishing false information and perverting the course of justice after being accused of perpetrating a £36m fraud.
(16) Dave Small, who was elected to Redditch borough council on Friday, faces being kicked out of the party for referring to gay people as "perverts" and African immigrants as "scroungers".
(17) Here we have an allegation of suborning witnesses and perverting the course of justice.
(18) Fillery is arrested on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
(19) Fulford is the presiding judge in the trial scheduled for later this year in which former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks faces charges of perverting the course of justice.
(20) So hopefully that makes it clear, I would never support Manchester United but I would pretend to be a pervert dad having sex with an imaginary adult daughter.