So we don't kink shame here, right? Anyone else have embarrassing fetishes that normies shams you for?
I like the smell of end day unwashed pussy myself. And some people look at me like I'm crazy and nasty when I bring up my smell kink
Nice try CIA, I only have pain fetishes so that way when your Agents torture me, it'll just turn me on instead!
One would think masochists would make perfect spies, able to resist interrogation, but they keep inexplicably getting caught!
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The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.
نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.
I'm a gentleman of culture so I only consume the finest hentai with the biggest of booba waifus. 
Oh god I got an embrassing confession.
Okay, I don't think this really counts as a fetish, but... I sorta got a thing for like, cheesy erotic swords and sorcery fantasy aesthetics. I just dig ladies in metal bikinis and swole ass dudes with giant axes. IDK why, maybe I first got horny while my dad was watching Conan the Barbarian or something. I know it's kinda cringe but it's my thing.
If that sort of art didn't scratch a particular itch for a decent proportion of the population then it wouldn't have ever existed in the mainstream. That's my take on it.
oh hell yeah
My dad had a book of sci-fi/fantasy pulp art and it had boobs in it
Teenage me was very impressed 
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Smell kinks are rarely talked about but I think everyone has them without realising to a certain extent. It's just generally frowned upon to talk about being turned on by smells because there's no consent or control in what smell a person is giving off or in what nearby people do with that smell. It makes people feel vulnerable because of the lack of control.
There isn't much more consent or control about appearance either yet peoples get turned on by people's appearance all the time. 🤔
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Fair, I guess it's entirely just about normalisation vs not? I wonder if it's ever been not-weird to discuss how someone smells in a "phwoar she's a looker" 
kind of way. "Phwoar she's a smeller" conjures an entirely different emotion in me.
Just a supposition but...
I'd say it probably has something to do with the fact that sight is our "primary" sense, the one we rely on and pay attention to the most, whereas smell, we don't really pay attention to it on a day to day basis, except in the presence of a very strong smell good or bad.
It reflect on our vocabulary too, we have a lot of words to describe extensively and exactly what we see (color, shade, texture, shape, etc...) but very little words to describe what we smell.
Maybe it's different for blind peoples? Or species with a strong sense of smell?
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Maybe it's different for blind peoples?
Oooo this would be really interesting to get perspective on but it's gonna be super weird trying to ask.
Conversely though, I think it's actually kinda nice to be told you have really pleasant smells, at least between intimate partners. They're probably gonna smiff ya anyway, so it's nice to know they enjoy it? Kinda thing
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It's also one of the things you remember very strongly. I like stealing partner's tops/jumpers because when you miss them you still have their smell.
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I genuinely don't think the perfume, deodorant and aftershave industries would ever be as large as they are if this weren't at least partially true.
I think this is a good opportunity to remind people:
I should notice your perfume/cologne if I'm close enough to kiss you and certainly not just because I happen to be in the same room.
well I do have a foot fetish, which is still stigmatized despite being fairly common. but it's not even like my main thing or whatever, I just have a fetish for every part of the human body
idk about smells because I don't have sex so my fetishes are primarily visual AFAIK. but maybe I'd be into it
I've had that happen too. Punks generally don't wear deodorant or wash much but also are outside more, so there's a BO but it's way less cheeto dust chemical stink of Magic the Gathering Tournament BO and I can tell my friends apart by smell and it releases good brain chemicals when I smell them even if it's like a lingering or similar smell. I smell like weed and spring rolls apparently.
I wouldn't call it a fetish but some people have cute feet. I just see them the same as any other body part. Idk the internet has kind of warped this but I always thought a sexual fetish was like something you need in order to derive sexual pleasure from an activity. Like a person with a foot fetish needs to be interacting with your feet during sex or it's just not going to work out. Where a person (like you or me) who just might think you have nice feet in the same way you might have nice hair or eyes or butt or whatever would just be called, like, normal lol
I've been told that's the difference between a kink and a fetish - fetish elements are more or less required to get off; whereas kink elements simply make it better, and not necessarily even in a directly sexual sense. But usage seems to vary
I have an otter fetish. Whenever I tell people that, they look at me like I'm crazy. I got it in Arizona like a decade ago and it's either stone or petrified wood. IDK. It's been a couple years since I last looked at it. I kind of lost it, to be honest.
I've been banned 12 times for kink-shaming and 11 of those were on the same nose-fetishist.
Are fetishes inherently sexual? Because I have extremely sensitive skin that makes getting tickled feel amazing. Doesn't sexually arouse me or anything. I just like the feeling a lot.
I mean I'm the same way, and I wouldn't have described it as sexual, but then my partner tied me up and did it and it was very 
My partner strapped me to the bed once and did it. Still wasn't turned on but damn it felt good.
Hard to define. Even as someone who's actively part of those communities, I struggle to define kink or fetish. The best I can come up with is "a sexual preference or a thing that brings about sexual enjoyment that deviates from social norms. Except it also doesn't have to be sexual."
and that’s my kink, soI'm a masochist, both for pain and for tickling- it's all stimulation, you know? Also theoretically into rope play, though I haven't had a chance to actually do it yet.
Fun thing is, this is super new for me. It just emerged out of nowhere one day like 3 months ago