How To Use Fetish In A Sentence

Oh dear ... our gal SUZANNE has her fetus-fetishist panties in the bunchiest of bunches. I’ll take “Divorced From Reality” for $500, Alex.
The company has an almost fetishistic attachment to narrowcasting.
Posting articles about ethical polyamoury on a philanderer's site is like putting pictures of hands on a foot fetishist site.
He wasn't so sure that the welding of artist and model improved the art, that her sudden fetish for Captain Hunt's bete-noir would inspire the strumming fingers of her daemon.
I find the fetishization of hairlessness strange… I wonder sometimes if it is not the result of the idealization of adolescent body types. The Most Hairiest Man in the World? » Sociological Images

The Prime Minister, who seems to make a fetish of showing that power is not incompatible with panache, is (or so his spokesman says) a Stones fan.
The folks behind nearby cow juice-friendly club night Milk debut their new monthly venture Laid this Wednesday and, in keeping with the bar's theme and their own dairy fetish, White Russians are on special offer, along with various other made-to-order milky concoctions. Clubs picks of the week
After September 11 everyone was talking about masculinity, mostly because any heterosexual woman who hadn't previously fetishized firemen now felt compelled to do so, if only out of gratitude.
But you may want to look into some long-term solution that doesn't revolve around an external fetish object such as a crystal or talisman.
(Piss and blood fetishes similarly leave me cold, though were you to ask me to urinate in your mouth or carve the word "cocksucker" in your chest with a razor blade, I would probably be happy to oblige.) Archive 2008-03-01
Unlike fetishism, say, or scopophilia, the unappeasable, primitive drives that figure in Antoni's work don't readily lend themselves to sophisticated, daring imagery, the stuff of art.
At the very least that one act of inhuman limberness should inspire the funniest and the funniest kind of fetishes for one and all to enjoy.
During the first twenty minutes or so, I wasn't sure I would make it through the entire movie -- it was, I thought, similar in style to a kind of movie I find unbearable: a style based on long handheld shots, a soundtrack that contains little or no music and lots of environmental sounds characters breathing, eating, walking, and a general attitude that seems to fetishize "artlessness", though offers little to replace the art it so disdains. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
I would suggest that this cultural fantasy is the symptom of one model for male creativity - the desire to disavow woman's essential Lack by fetishizing an ordinary object.
Changes in sexual behavior, though uncommon, have been seen in patients with epilepsy, including hypersexuality, pansexuality, erotomania, sexual paranoia, exhibitionism, and fetishism.
Lesser priests and priestesses serve the shrines of fetishes, minor spirits, and focus on cures and magic charms.
In Japan, grown men are fetishizing schoolgirls in sober navy uniforms.
Civilizations run by hedgehogs tend to have a fetish for uniformity; those run by foxes are more tolerant of diversity.
More recent Indian medicine men carried charms, fetishes and sacred talismans in similar deerskin bags that must have been a potent symbol of tribal authority.
Apparently girls whose cars are stuck in mud is an emerging sexual fetish. Boing Boing: January 25, 2004 - January 31, 2004 Archives
Totem worship is the premise for worshiping Nature, while fetish is the media language from totem worship to nature worship.
Mailer fetishizes bravery, which has sometimes made him seem silly.
The corrosiveness of commodity fetishism, the breakout of collective life, and the loss of the cultural critic and spiritual precursor, all of these become new crisis of postmodernism.
In her life and throughout her oeuvre, she unabashedly appropriated the prerogative of the fetishistic gaze associated with the masculine observer.
The man used tights and stockings to bind and gag his victims and it is believed the perverted attacker had a bizarre shoe fetish as in all but one of the cases the victims' shoes were stolen.
Which brought me again to my whole reverie about steel: As much as we prize things in this culture, we do not much fetishize the process by which they were made.
The obsessive, fetishistic, single account that pornography provides is what keeps sexuality within bounds.
People will continue to debate the racial and sexual politics of Mapplethorpe's portraits: Does his "fetishistic" focus on the massive genitals of his black subjects propagate insidious stereotypes of black male sexuality? Archive 2009-07-01
Russell Williams is now an admitted double murderer, rapist and sexual fetishist, but it's the scale of his obsession, the depth of his deviance and his utter relentlessness which is so terrifying. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
My gimmick will be a foot fetish and a toe collection reaved from dead hookers. JERRY BRUCKHEIMER’S LAWS OF SCIENCE
James Hughes, have "fetishized" democratic decision-making over the protection of minority rights. Ethical Technology
Whitman has produced music that (particularly as a collection) neither fetishizes the scholarly pallor of early electronic music nor attempts to radically recast the tools or to play clever games with them.
No such distinction exists in fetishism, where object and spirit are one and the same, fused in an unmediated anti-symbolic relationship.
At one point, Kirie asks her father about his conversation with the aforementioned spiral fetishist, provoking him to indignantly accuse her of eavesdropping.
The theme is fetishism, but the treatment is anything but salacious.
This fetishistic oath, seemingly sworn and signed in blood, has kept the Republicans from saying "yes" to President Obama's offer for raising the nation's debt ceiling -- a deal that would whack some $4 trillion dollars from the national deficit. Fernando Espuelas: Why Republicans Can't Say Yes to Obama
But maybe we also fetishize characters like him because they symbolize possibility.
Out of all the arts, it is dance which fetishises youth to the greatest degree.
Webster's defines fetish as ‘an object of irrational reverence or obsessive devotion… an object or bodily part whose real or fantasied presence is psychologically necessary for sexual gratification.’
As we all know, when it comes to sex, men in particular tend to fetishize body parts and clothing.
According to the rules that drive this particular fetish, anything short of self-destruction is just going through the motions.
Most do too much while Ejiofor just purses his lips minimally to make you realise He Knows that his verbose, pencil-fetishising line manager is a jerk, that the hack who doorstepped his wife is scum, that justice must be done even in the case of a murdered unlamented drug baron etc. TV review: The Shadow Line and Psychoville
It seems like his life is constantly guided by things that both fascinate and disgust him: his childhood interest in kiddie pop culture, his period with San Francisco’s hippie subculture, his weird sexual fetishes. The Grumpy Old Man : Scrubbles.net
If you're a tree-hugging granola fetishist, go Green.
‘Everyone has a fetish,’ says George of Northbound Leather, a Toronto store that sells dominatrix gear and other kinky accessories.
It seems that he was never tortured by his homosexuality, and he had a curious fetish for grey flannels and corduroys.
The show includes film stills and coolly fetishistic fashion photography, notably various ad campaigns.
The artist's subjects - taken mainly from the city's streetlife and bohemian subculture - included portraits and scenes of sexual violence and deviation (particularly shoe fetishism).
Marx shows that when productive relations are regulated through market exchanges the things exchanged become "fetishized" (Kapital v1 part 4 of chapter 1). Kasama
A renegade missionary is brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish.
It seems that if you use the word fetishize to attack an idea you don't have to engage in supported or reasoned argument against the idea. Rob Kall: Is Occupy Wall Street Fetishizing the Public Square?
Essentially, the ‘fetish’ is identified by Freud as something that is fixated upon as a substitute or representative for sex, and thus is inextricably linked to the sexual act.
Erogenous zones should be distinguished from sexual fetishes.
It seemed as if she had a fetish for small Manila folders.
From first rude frame to lascivious last, Grindhouse guns to be the last word in fanboy fetishism," writes Nathan Lee in the Voice. GreenCine Daily: Grindhouse, 4/4.
Easy to tell the difference, if expansion is on the tummy, it's water retention; on the hips/bum it's pie and choccy retention. given that celery and melon are considered 'diuretics' its hardly surprising us pie-fetishists retain water! Army Rumour Service
One of them sat on my couch the other day hooked up to tubes and suctions and a giant deconstructed bra, looking like some fetish ad, or a footnote from the Josef Mengele years. The Case Against Breast-Feeding
But Sharon caught me off guard when she started to talk with some approval about scatology, a fetish whose adherents use feces to enhance sexual activity.
He illustrates fetishism with a story of "two Malay women in Keeling Island who held a wooden spoon dressed in clothes like a doll ... this spoon danced about convulsively like a table or a hat at a modern spirit-seance."
In summarizing various findings, Robert Dickes states that most pregenital research stands in direct opposition to Freud, i.e., that ‘the fetish represents more than the female phallus’.
Buddhism, however, on the 'dispersive' view of the evolution of religion, is not the only radiation from the common centre, of which we have to take account, in addition to fetishism, polytheism, and monotheism. Recent Developments in European Thought
The English word fetish can be traced back to the medieval Portuguese word fetich, which refers to religious relics believed to possess magical properties. Come Hither
So much for occupation as the 'fetishized' plaything of privileged elites! Anarchist news dot org - Comments
After a brief period where the Fetish Café became the Fetish Funhouse and where ‘things just weren't quite right,’ the club has recently returned to its old formula and is, once again, doing gangbuster business.
The aesthetic common denominator was a "finish fetish" or "fetish finish," your choice borrowed from the southern California demimonde of hot rods and custom cars—i.e., the kind of slick, finicky attention to smooth perfection required when applying dozens of hand-rubbed coats of cherry-red enamel to an auto body. When the West Coast Went Pop
Their religion, which exhibits features of animism, animalism, anthropomorphism, nature-worship, fetishism, ancestor-worship is under the control, guidance and supervision of the village.
Also, while I'm too lazy to look for it, when the subject of women not having fetishes came up a few years ago I wondered whether that might be because for maybe thousands of years have been under ... quite a lot of pressure since childhood to "powerfully and persistently displace sexual interest onto objects, behaviors, or situations other than in copulatory or precopulatory behavior with phenotypically normal, consenting adult human partners. Figleaf's Real Adult Sex
Davies fell victim to his old tropes: sexualising the doctor by having him kiss yet another female companion, fetishising him by having Lee Evans as an eccentric boffin kneel at his feet and declare he loved him, and granting him another soliloquy about his cosmic solitariness. Doctor Who Smattering of Spoilers
Whilst Marx appears to make use of something like the stratified and transformational ontology set out above, he adds another element: the ontology is also fetishized.
Put simply, fetishism is when some body part or inorganic object (here an image) is either needed to achieve the sexual aim or replaces it altogether.
Like Teds, Mods, Rockabillies, Punks, Ravers and Goths, gay male fetish queens do not change much over the years.
He noted that sexual fetishes, no matter how weird they might seem, were an expression of one's individuality.
He makes a fetish of his work.
The hasta fetialis has been styled a fetish -- an apparent abuse of language. Modern Mythology
To all the spin doctors trying to call people racist here: Fetish parties are about the up-sered and Bizarre. BlogTO
He covers the floor of every set with fetishistic zeal.
His claim that ‘the fetishism of social relations becomes an established fact’ in a monetized society remains underelaborated.
Explore the world of kink, fetish and fantasy on a journey through the erotic imagination.
The intensity and constant focus on the blood, the whippings and the degradation was so excessive that it seemed to me to be unnaturally fetishist.
I must say I'm extremely surprised that some people have interpreted my flip ‘vulnerability is sexy’ comment to mean that I'm in some way fetishising this boy's condition.
The killer's relationship with a blind girl adds colour to what might otherwise have been as incomprehensible as the activities of the skin fetishist in the other film.
Meanwhile, they milk her god-given attributes to mobilize armies of budding wannabes by sanitizing her sexuality, and legions of men by fetishizing her purity.
The lapidarian patience she has expended in trimming, breathing upon, and polishing these bits of opaque cellophane betrays a concern that has less to do with art than with private worship and the embellishment of private fetishes with secret and arbitrary meanings. Portrait of An Artist
A thimble could be a tailor or someone with a thimble fetish. Ridley Scott Locked into Directing a Monopoly Movie « FirstShowing.net
Sadism and masochism, like fetishism, annex pleasure to established systems of desire.
Although the Parisian architect Jean-Paul Viguier designed the striking, cantilevered, bladelike, at once slick and luxurious structure, its unusual footprint and modernist look respond marvelously to its site and neighborhood, and Viguier's heroic efforts to "bring the sun into the project" show a sensitivity to both the city's climate and its architectural heritage, which virtually fetishizes openness and natural light. The Not-So-Second City
This fetishization of asexuality gives way to an imperious and isolated priesthood, an aloof caste of men whose holiness is far too greatly predicated upon the choice not to have sex. Michele Somerville: Sex and the City of God, Part 2: Celibacy and Sexuality in the Catholic Church
Respite comes, as one might expect with Dickens, in equally phonemic terms, floated upon (in that same paragraph) the sibilant, assonant, and iambic bonding of "inseparable and blessed" to describe the union of the title figure and Arthur Clennam, the man whose fetishistic vision of her impoverishment has seen her until now as a Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
He is admittedly a visual genius, but he was often accused of fetishising violence in his films.
As I will argue here, the representation of fetishism in her writing exists in a paradoxical relationship with the fetishism of her theory of representation.
The movie is a fabulously funny exploration of fetishism, a look at the ever-more-insane ways people find to "get off."
The acoustic guitar is the closest thing to a fetish object in music: put one in the right hands, and that person can conjure the dead.
That the food fetish has its erotic component is suggested by the means of poison — Amanita phalloides — and by the way Merricat so totally depends upon her older sister as a food provider, as if she were an unweaned infant and not a "great child" grown into an adult. The Witchcraft of Shirley Jackson
I wouldn't be able to speak English, if I was! given that celery and melon are considered 'diuretics' its hardly surprising us pie-fetishists retain water! Army Rumour Service
Just as some women grow up unconsciously drawn to men who remind them of their father, some men fetishize feet because of a former classmate who constantly played footsie under the table.
Upon further investigation, I've discovered "dangling and dipping" are foot fetishist terms.
This is yet another sign of the disconnect in priorities between the American public and centrist Beltway media figures, who, as John Harris and Jim VandeHei wrote the other day, have developed an unhealthy obsession with the deficit as the number one litmus test issue for serious politicans, as well as a tendency to fetishize bipartisan deficit commissions. Bipartisanship! Repubs, Dems, indys agree jobs far more important than deficit
I would argue that the confusion between people and objects is the mistake of the fetishist.
Presently appeared a kind of barracoon, a large square of thick cane-work and thatch about eight feet high, the Fetish house of the "Jinkimba" or circumcised boys, who received us with unearthly yells. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
I'm a huge fan of the cybergoth, fetish, punk scene, especially the hot bright colours. Fashion World of SL
Brian Hughes of "Again With the Comics" has an advice column called "Ask Golden Age Wonder Woman," in which questions from the lovelorn are answered using actual panels from old issues of Wonder Woman, surely one of the most crypto-fetishistic comics of the Golden Age. Boing Boing
Maybe bohos ' desire to deflate their own power into an imagined police state is a kind of fetish game where the pleasure derives from breaking out of it, where art has easy power.
Feminist as opposed to macho, subjective as opposed to objective; fetishising celebrity, brands, names, forms of real identity, comment and chat as opposed to fetishising the physical form, idealised beauty and decontextualised pure information. The dilemmas of thinking about porn within a civil liberty perspective « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings…
At its best, this fetishistic attention to period accuracy succeeds in summoning an alien world in which characters move, fidget, and even kiss differently. Mad About Mad Men
He held that West African fetishism was an example of the earliest stage in the universal progression of social development.
The word "fetish" comes from a Latin word, feticium, which means "idol". NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories
Economists have a pernicious model fetish, but that's better than merely verbal rhetoric that creates rather pointless debates that can be engaged endlessly without effect (sociology, post-modernism, Sokal and Social Text). Douglass North at Length, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
This study had been commenced in his own time by de Brosses, the inventor of the term fetishism, and pronounced by competent modern authorities to have been a powerful and original thinker upon the facts of the infancy of civilization. Voltaire
Using the same metaphor, Comte represents fetishism as if the material world were alive in every tree and rock.
David Greene Berrien Springs, Michigan Neer Miss You have mistaken carabineer for carabiner (Fetish, Play, issue 16.03). Reader Rants and Raves
Online communities allow a degree of security in, and can hence facilitate, the declaration of socially marginalized or tabooed identities, such as gay, lesbian or various fetish orientations.
Do you want to know a tick-list of their sexual fetishes?
Almost any newly translated French or Italian philosopher becomes fashionable, regardless of whether appropriate or not, and is hailed with a fetishistic fusillade of anachronistic footnotes.
The use of fur and the tactile, kinetic quality of the stuffed animal make them sexualized fetishes in addition to their being commodities.
Throw in "fetishize" and a weird pronounciation of Aptow ... Row Three
Women's underclothes are a common fetish.
The images all refer to the fetishistic obsession Western science has with classification based on visual evidence.
Meaning, please seek a rescue group if you want a particular breed, look in your local shelter for a surprise find, or, better yet, get over the "purebred" fetish and find out how stable, loyal and companionable the all-American mutt can be. Ingrid Newkirk: The Pope, PETA and Overpopulation
In the past, training for white-collar professions was favored and emphasized, and titles and diplomas were fetishized.
Mark Trail is stuck in a 1950's aesthetic with some kind of fetishistic determination, but nobody, nobody, NOBODY still has a lamp like the one next to Cherry. Baltiblogs
People often say painting died in the modern world, that the age of mechanical reproduction made it a relic, of value only to conservative fetishists of fine art.
The English word fetish can be traced back to the medieval Portuguese word fetich, which refers to religious relics believed to possess magical properties. Come Hither
Often, it is this image that elicits the most delight from the science fiction film fan: the moment in which the technology itself is foregrounded and the visual drama is fetishized.
Would such recreational gender-blending be considered part of the fetish scene, ‘normal’, slightly kinky sexual experimentation, or would it become part of mainstream society?
The first category is the most common and is, I expect, what you identify as 'fetishistic'. Good Fanfic?
I could forgive the fetishizing of martyrdom if the film displayed a hint of subtlety or emotional resonance.
Many Guineans rely on their traditional spirit beliefs and rely on marabouts and fetishes in times of trouble.
She makes a fetish of organization - it's quite obsessive.
Does anybody know where this capitalization fetish in pleading comes from? The Volokh Conspiracy » Ouch!
Bella's fixation on Edward's stoniness looks a lot like a kind of fetishism. Archive 2008-12-01
The nation-head must exercise caution before making personal dietary fetishes into what become political statements.
Voegelinians do not hesitate to take this fetish for order and rejection of dissidence to its extreme.
I don’t get claims that motherhood is ‘fetishized’ (I certainly did not get Cooke’s, and suspected that she does not understand the proper uses of the term ‘fetish’) – at the crudest level, ‘fetishize’ is used to refer to something being valued in disproportion to its worth, and I actually don’t think that that’s practically possible in the case of motherhood. Who’s The Dummy, Mummy? | Her Bad Mother
Feminist film critics have seen this phenomenon (clinically known as fetishism) operating in the cinema; the camera fetishizes the female form.
Page three models and married rubber fetishists, with a slave on the side, flickered before our very astonished eyes.
Underwear with suspender elastic hanging off may have looked chicly fetishistic on the women but positively frightful on the men.
Albeit, many of these tales have fetishistic aspects but the Infanta next takes a scrubbed chamberpot to fill. Book Review: In Sleeping Beauty’s Bed IV « Colleen Anderson
Like, my main concern with slash done for jollies is the fetishising of gay men in/for a heterosexual female gaze -- which I'm divided on. Fanfiction
The film's fetishistic approach to auto racing is uncomfortably like the current NASCAR craze.
The colors are extremely vivid and work to amplify what at first glance appears to be an unruly fetishism of the exotic object.
But I guess because I never had that, I fetishize it, sort of.
Their anatomical incorrectness --- incompleteness is more like it --- would seem to be a problem, but they are drawn together by a mutual fetishistic love of fashion and trying on outfits for each other is their version of sex, which makes the interrogation scene very kinky. Lance Mannion:
The question is, does images of men having "bareback" (unsafe, no condoms) sex with each other cause people to fetishize and long to also engage in such behavior, or is it a safe sexual outlet to watch sexual behavior that the viewer (or voyeur) will not engage in, but is still aroused by? Archive 2005-08-01
According to Gandhi, it is when symbols become fetishes and embodiments of the divine, that they might be construed as idols.
Drudge has covered this hurricane with such passion and fervor, I'm thinking the guy has a bit of a fetish.
Recycling the personification of theory as "de Man," he alternately ignores or dismisses theory's critique of personification (personification, that is, as an inevitable but endlessly unstable trope), and necessarily repeats in negative form the fetishizing gesture of the transference. Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man
In other words, we feel guilty, and we, in his term, "fetishize" labor. Robert Teitelman: On the nostalgia for manufacturing
Politically speaking, pansexuality is a way of uniting disparate SM/fetish communities into a solid front that can more effectively fight for kinky civil rights and better educate the public about the diversity and consensuality of kinky sex. Come Hither
Tylor is one of the first to argue that the Comian view of fetishism is oversimplified and that Africans worshiped the spirit that resided in the object, rather than the object itself.
The film provides another respite in a scene in which the women, clad in fetishy black bras and nylons, dance together in a hotel room.
In fact, characters in the movie gush over designer names with almost fetishistic glee.
John Kay in the Financial Times Wednesday makes an excellent observation: "Manufacturing fetishism is back. Robert Teitelman: On the nostalgia for manufacturing
The defining feature of fetishism in Tylor remains object-worship.
Like the old religious fetishism, with its convulsionary raptures and miraculous cures, the fetishism of commodities generates its own moments of fervent exaltation. The Society of the Spectacle – Guy Debord (translated by Ken Knabb)
Because I am a list fetishist, I will attempt to place them here in order of personal preference.
Charms, talismans, fetishes, photos, what-have-you - little things that I wear or keep or carry in my pocket that I can connect to a person or a place or a time in my life.
He makes a fetish of his work.
Shocked, I reeled away in horror, fearing that some passing stranger might take me for a rubber fetishist, a thought that appals and revolts me.
Second, while I expected to see lots of bondage, spanking, cross-dressing, and infantilist sites, until the requests began pouring in I had had no idea, for example, that there are enough people sexually aroused by toy balloons yes, the kind you blow up at kiddy parties to support the hundred or so sites which now cater exclusively to that fetish. Come Hither
The photographs are inhabited by solitary female figures, naked except for fetishistic high-heels or black pumps, in vacant interiors or flat, expansive landscapes.
The cards objectified women, they fetishized exoticism, and they naturalized children's uninhibited sexuality.
Long gone are the days when people were forced to skulk in the sexual shadows on account of their lifelong splosh fetish. Archive 2009-04-01
All these characteristics, however, can already be discerned in the religion of Ancient Egypt, where elaborate anthropomorphic and theriomorphic representations and extensive mythological narratives exist alongside fetish objects and large lacunae in mythology.
I don't get claims that motherhood is 'fetishized' I certainly did not get Cooke's, and suspected that she does not understand the proper uses of the term 'fetish' - at the crudest level, 'fetishize' is used to refer to something being valued in disproportion to its worth, and I actually don't think that that's practically possible in the case of motherhood. Who's The Dummy, Mummy?
Eventually, people came to associate the word fetish uniquely with the religious art of pagan including Native American societies, but, in fact, it is the product of a Christian worldview. Come Hither
As an extension of female sexuality, then, commodification also extends that constitutive passivity to the absolute emptiness of fetishization; that is, the stasis and the consequent lack of status of the female figure result in an emptying out of significance that coincides with the process by which fetishization empties bodies, beings, and practices of all significance except their exchangeability with objects (85). close window Notes on 'The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire'
This type of faith-based metaphysics, indulged by doctors like Gordon and Sears and fetishized in the media, has no bigger cheerleader than Oprah Winfrey. The Panic Virus
As wrong ideas, commodity fetishism and currency fetishism is of cognitive ability instead of morality.
There is a perceived incongruity between the film's dark, fetishistic side and its ironic and humorous jabs at squeaky-clean middle-class America.
At times, customers visited the clubs seeking gratification of certain fetishes such as the desire to interact with a dominant woman or to experience public humiliation or pain.
The Mad Men world makes a fetish of ornamentation and deifies mysterious artifice; our culture prizes an apathetic informality and rewards the tackiest forms of extroversion. Lesley M. M. Blume: Let's Bring Back: The MAD MEN Edition (PHOTOS, POLL)
I use the term fetish object in both an erotic sense, as well as to represent the small, carved figures used by the Zuni Indians to invoke attributes such as courage, honor, and wisdom. Cupcake interview with Sue Hogan of Unison Fetish
The naked-lady fetishist, however, is unmoved by such features as hairstyle and clothing, regarding them as distractions and impediments to the one thing that truly interests him - her naked body.
Actually, the fetishism is absent -- at least until the climactic battle, in which Saki replaces her sailor fuku with a tight leather outfit and has a yo-yo fight with the school's resident nasty girl (played by J-pop singer Rika Ishikawa), who, for the occasion, dons an S&M ensemble complete with studded-leather shorts and fishnet stockings. Archive 2008-07-01
For Mulvey, the gaps between film frames reveal the fetishised world of cinema as nothing but a ‘screen’, and reminds us of the unbridgeable gap between our desires and the ‘real’.
Sue has a real fetish about keeping everything tidy.
Turns out that this Western Civ fetishist doesn't know his Bible or his Shakespeare.
I don't have any trace of the fanboy otaku fetishization of things Japanese that seems to elevate some of the lamest Japanese culture-crud to cult status.
The runner-up for the most offensive was, I think, Doritos “fetish” ad is not even quite describable in a family newspaper. Those Super Bowl commercials
On a night of tidal emotions, the night when Beckham became a fetish, I found my hammy Irish fists jerking themselves convulsively upwards from my pressbox desk and towards the sky when Argentina went ahead.
The Mad Men world makes a fetish of ornamentation and deifies mysterious artifice; our culture, on the other hand, prizes an almost apathetic informality and rewards the tackiest forms of extroversion. Lesley M. M. Blume: Let's Bring Back: The MAD MEN Edition (PHOTOS, POLL)
A billionaire who had a fetish for huge buildings and computerized offices wasn't likely to do much meditation.
The fetishistic medievalism—Breivik seems to have designed a military dress uniform, and wants to wear it to his trial—is significant: Like Osama bin Laden and his epigones, his worldview seems mainly defined by the politics of the 13th century. What Is Anders Breivik?
The first is the repeated reminder not to fetishize distributive questions that arise in a genetic context.
The observances of fetish-worship fade away into the customs and habits of everyday life by gradations, so that in some of the superstitious beliefs, while there may be no formal handling of a fetish amulet containing a spirit nor actual prayer nor sacrifice, nevertheless spiritism is the thought and is more or less consciously held, and consequently the term fetish might perhaps be extended to them. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Novelistic realism itself becomes a fetishistic practice.
For every dignified traditional leisure activity like kabuki or Noh theater, there are sordid underground clubs where fetishes and fringe elements are offered and capitalized upon.
Caitlin is one cool “crazy ninja bitch with a boilersuit fetish”. Cheeseburger Gothic » First Discussion thread for After America.
I mean I've had no problems with showing a bit of skin, but this sort of fetish strikes me as a disturbing perversity never before attempted.
And perhaps the children of this generation -- or at least many among it -- have been hardened by the general oppressiveness and hostility toward young people in our society that I sometimes think is at least in part an expression of adult envy and resentment, in a culture that worships and even fetishizes youth. Larry Strauss: Students, How About You Appreciate Your Free Education Before You Lose It?
Shocked, I reeled away in horror, fearing that some passing stranger might take me for a rubber fetishist, a thought that appals and revolts me.
Antipop obviously aspires to pick up electro-hip-hop where Afrika Bambataa left off - analog synthesizers are practically fetishized on this album, and the beats are all curt drum machines.
When his mother sold him to white men, she told him to thank and worship the fetishes, objects believed to have magical powers by primitive people, because they will make him happy.
If one of their coping strategies is to fetishise a few silly fashion labels, isn't that forgivable?
Age-old traditions are mixed with digital sci-fi themes; hints of religious ritual merge with almost fetishist fantasies; hyperrealist techniques reinforce idealised stereotypes; and backstreet culture is given the glamour treatment. This week's new exhibitions
In this remake of Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Adam Sandler's inheritance includes John Turturro as a butler with a fetish for men's feet.
That, I suppose, is kind of obvious considering both movies are about brilliant surgeons with bizarre fetishes. Movie Review: The Human Centipede (First Sequence) » Scene-Stealers
She nurses a proprietary air about the place and has a particular fetish about the driveway.
While the jargon is all retro health and safety-education material, the culty fetishism is more J.G. Ballard than CPR. Boing Boing: September 18, 2005 - September 24, 2005 Archives
No, we're referring to that twilight world of bizarre fetishes and sexual practices.

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