The strange world of sex can be surprising, even to an expert.
Dr. Mark Griffiths is a social psychologist who studies paraphilia, a sexual trait known colloquially as a fetish. In a new article for The Conversation, Griffiths, a professor of behavioral addictions at Nottingham Trent University, revealed the five most shocking sexual obsessions he’s ever come across in his research.
“[Paraphilias] are usually accompanied by intense sexual arousal to unconventional or non-sexual stimuli such as enemas (clysmaphilia), statues (agalmatophilia), teeth (odontophilia) and vomiting (emetophilia),” wrote Griffiths, whose new book “Sexual Perversions and Paraphilias : An AZ” is available now for pre-order.
“To many people paraphilia may seem strange or socially unacceptable, representing the extreme end of the sexual continuum – and in some cases, such as zoophilia (having sex with animals) and necrophilia (having sex with dead people) , may be illegal.”
Despite the taboo, sexual fantasies, however strange, are “fundamental” to the human experience and there is an “urgent need” for more research into fetishes.
“Researching paraphilias, even the most unsavory or criminal ones, is essential to help protect vulnerable groups,” Griffiths said. “Research may also help minimize the discrimination faced by those with unusual sexual interests, helping to ensure they have access to sexual health care and psychological support, which may be lacking.”
The 5 strangest fetishes are, according to Griffiths:
Vorarephilia
Perhaps one of the most high-profile examples of prerephilia to date would be actor Armie Hammer, who in 2021 was accused by an ex-girlfriend of harboring cannibalistic fantasies. However, rumors of the “Call Me By Your Name” star’s baser tendencies pale in comparison to Armin Meiwes and Bernd Jürgen Brandes, a pair of real-life Vorarephiliacs from Germany, according to Griffiths’ account.
Meiwes posted about 60 ads online looking for someone to be eaten before he met Bernd Jürgen Brandes in March 2002, who allowed Meiwes to bite off the tip of his penis so they could eat the meat together. before stabbing Brandes – all caught on video. Meiwes was convicted of murder and is currently serving a life sentence.
Eproctophilia
Griffiths claims to have published the first case study of eproctophiles, those caused by flatulence. The 22-year-old American from Illinois recalled his crush on a girl who farted at school, telling Griffiths: “It blew my mind. [I] I just knew from biology that girls farted, but to hear that the girl I had farted with was capable of such a thing sparked a strange interest in me.”
His attraction to farts was not limited to women, he learned as a teenager, after he and a male friend agreed to settle regular bets by allowing the winner to fart in the loser’s face. “He continued to lose such bets once every few weeks for about two years,” Griffiths wrote.
Apotemnophilia
Real and imagined amputation are involved in apotemnophilia. Some apotemnophiles only have to fantasize about amputation or engaging in sex with someone who is. Some, however, have gone so far as to try to trick surgeons into amputating a limb, according to Griffiths.
“This may seem like a kind of masochism, but the case studies suggest that there is no eroticism of pain – only of the healed amputated trunk.”
Dacryphilia
Dacryphiliacs are turned on by tears. Griffiths has found three subtypes of people who fetishize crying. Compassionate types are awakened by empathy; dominant/submissive types may induce or experience crying in the middle of power plays; and “twisted lip” dacryfiles, the focus of which is specifically on the subject’s protruding lower lip.
Salirophilia
Getting down and dirty is the goal of salirophiles, who wake up to the sight of dirt and messy bedfellows.
Griffiths wrote about a case study, a 58-year-old Australian man who masturbated frequently in dusty or dirty places, such as a garage or under furniture, when he was a teenager. As he got older, his obsession with trash grew in partners, although he found it “difficult to find like-minded women.”
His fetish was not limited to strictly sexual contexts, confessing that it was also sparked by the reality competition show Fear Factor, in which contestants perform disgusting stunts for money. “I find it erotic to defile the body of an attractive woman,” he told Griffiths.
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