Fetish shame due to Victorian culture

Gazette.uwo.ca – Sarah Berman

Looking at herself wearing lingerie in a mirror

We all have our turn-ons. While some prefer blondes, tattoos or rippling muscles in the bedroom, others find cross-dressing, sado-masochism or even stuffed animals rev up their sexual appetites.

From the smallest sexual preference to the most outlandish obsession, sexual fetishes are more prevalent — and enjoyable — than you think.

“Fetishistic interests fall on a continuum,” psychology professor Guy Grenier explains. For example, cross-dressing fetish can be as simple as a man wearing colourful clothes, or so extensive as to fool sexual partners.