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What is the science behind fetishes?
| Fetishes can stem lot of things such as childhood development but a lot of stuff we're still unsure about.
Freud supposedly had a few good ideas but I think a lot of them have been debunked.
If I had to guess: I reckon it's probably a mix brain chemistry and environmental conditioning allowing for some fetishes to come and go and for others to stick around for longer. But I'm no psychologist so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
This is pretty good:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_fetishism#Cause
| Psych student here. Fetishes and paraphilias are actually very poorly understood. The predominant theory is that exposure to pleasurable stimuli while in the presence of certain periphery can lead to fetishes for certain actions, body parts, or objects. Apparently your early sexual experience is the most influential, but I'm not a sex psychologist so not 100% sure.
| There also seems to be strong genetic factors but like I said it's not well understood. We've experimented with stuff like removing pedophilia by introducing negative stimuli with pictures of child pornography or trying to get peophiles to associate those feelings with adult women instead but it's not very successful and the results never last. It seems inducing a paraphilia is easier than removing one.
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| What's the science behind it, like how do people get all sorts of weird fetishes and shit g/u/rls?