What is the difference

[Red-15]

Etymologically and linguistically, Ozme52 is spot-on. I'm the first in line to say that, yes, language is critical, it is important. We need to understand and be understood. But it's also possible to become overwrought on the whole business of definition.

I guess it's my preference to lump fetish, turn-ons, and what have you under the less-specific rubric of "kink." If "it," be it an object, action, thought, situation, visual or auditory stimulus, what have you, gets you going, gets you hot, wet, and nearer to your happy place, let it be your kink. Or kinks. Spending less time parsing, and more time doing, well, that's just plain good for us.

This maybe isn't what you were after, but I hope it is nevertheless helpful.

Don

[thir]

I guess it's my preference to lump fetish, turn-ons, and what have you under the less-specific rubric of "kink." If "it," be it an object, action, thought, situation, visual or auditory stimulus, what have you, gets you going, gets you hot, wet, and nearer to your happy place, let it be your kink. Or kinks. Spending less time parsing, and more time doing, well, that's just plain good for us.

This maybe isn't what you were after, but I hope it is nevertheless helpful.

Don

You are quite right, but maybe it is good to know what a fetchist is, if, for instance, your new love cannot funtion without a radio antenna. The important thing to understand would be that is does not replace you.