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  • noun Plural form of fetish.

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Examples

  • Your deconstruction of stock eroge fetishes is super insightful and interesting.

    This Is Why I Shouldn't Drink SVGL 2009

  • I always find my first thought when I hear about weird fetishes is not so much that someone would have that particular kink, but that something so weird would be precisely reproduced with totally unrelated people.

    A First-Generation American - Anil Dash 2008

  • Aside from any questions of offensiveness, using "miscegenation" to refer to interracial sex fetishes is simply incorrect.

    SeeLight: 2007

  • Aside from any questions of offensiveness, using "miscegenation" to refer to interracial sex fetishes is simply incorrect.

    A Word Lesson On "Miscegenation" 2007

  • The thing that I find interesting about fetishes is how, like relics, they are given reverence and attributed power.

    Fetishes As Fetish Does Heather McDougal 2007

  • That the place will be crawling with potential steakfuckers out to indulge their tentacle rape/schoolgirl sock/giant robot penis fetishes is possible cause for [...]

    The Right to Refuse Service 2006

  • These sacred objects are sometimes called fetishes; and although it is perhaps wiser to avoid terms belonging properly to the religion of modern savages in speaking of ancient Greece, there seems to be an analogy between the beliefs and customs that are implied.

    Religion and Art in Ancient Greece Ernest Arthur Gardner

  • That the place will be crawling with potential steakfuckers out to indulge their tentacle rape/schoolgirl sock/giant robot penis fetishes is possible cause for concern, but Ken and Yuki will be steering us to interesting places to eat and drink, while the steakfuckers flock to Anna Miller’s.

    A Special Note to All Ten Non-Korean Readers of This Site 2007

  • Finding real fetishes, that is, objects of power, is a matter of happenstance, hard work, good luck, or being in the right place at the right time.

    Fetishes As Fetish Does Heather McDougal 2007

  • The fact that African-American women also visit the Caribbean and West Africa for potential mates shows that these men are perceived as having something to offer compared to U.S. males, and these relationships are not often simple racial fetishes, which is actually a tremendously condescending view of black men.

    FEMALE SEX TOURISTS IN THE CARIBBEAN » Sociological Images 2009

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