2007-01-03 23:06:08 · 13 answers · asked by Ashley 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Perversions produce a victim, fetishes incorporate objects that satiate sexual arousal. fetishes are harmless, perversions hurt people. Am I right?
2007-01-03 23:10:34 · update #1
When someone else doesn't accept or understand it. Perversion is a very negative word, but it's heavily personal. Delve into the world of porn and you'll see it first-hand. I've talked with straight men who'll masturbate to two guys getting it on, then do the same thing to a threesome with a guy and two girls.
There's a market for midget sex. There's a market for fat sex. There's a market for animal sex, for god's sake. And there isn't a market for something if there isn't demand.
Everyone gets off on their own thing; everyone has their own 'fetish'. If someone else doesn't understand the attraction but can't persuade someone off of it, it's then viewed as a 'perversion' by others.
And that's the difference.
2007-01-03 23:11:47 · answer #1 · answered by vfaulkon 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know the technical explanation between the difference, except that one is positive, the other negative. I think that the word 'perversion' has been applied to a lot of behavior that is now being reclaimed as a healthy, normal fetish. I think each just qualify a subjective value judgement.
I don't think that you're definition is right, but I really like it and think it should be used from now on, because that's exactly how I define a perversion in my head: something that harms another person (against their will).
2007-01-04 12:35:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fetishes and perversions are all relative to an individual. Where something light might be a fetish in someone more conservatives mind's eye will be seen as a perversion, others may see hardly anything as perversion.
2007-01-04 07:08:13 · answer #3 · answered by ☺ PeeJ ☺ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably technically but most of us who are lifestyle BDSM, Leather and Fetish, toss around the "perv" word with a sense of irony and humor. Its like some gay men who call each other "*******", essentially its not an insult if you are one.
I don't have a fetish, I define that as a compulsive, and I never ever do anything without informed consent, but I would many of the things I do are definitely perverted in a good way.
2007-01-04 08:35:48 · answer #4 · answered by tjnstlouismo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you use feathers it's a fetish...it becomes a perversion when you use the whole damned chicken!
2007-01-04 11:23:43 · answer #5 · answered by DEATH 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
By their very nature, all fetishes are perversions. That is, unless your perversion is missionary, in the dark, and no talking.
2007-01-04 07:08:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I reckon for two reasons a)when it is considered to be harmful to any other involved party its then a perversion and b) when by general consensus it is considered to be harmful to society regardless of the feelings of any individual involved party.
2007-01-04 07:08:34 · answer #7 · answered by Nix 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When the person is laughing fiendishly like Dr. Frankenstein when he is committing his little fetish with his shoes, undies, or whatever.
2007-01-04 07:10:05 · answer #8 · answered by MsFancy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
'fetish' is a 'perversion'
2007-01-04 07:07:54 · answer #9 · answered by Dr Dee 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
yep that sounds right to me
2007-01-04 17:54:37 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋