Pygophilia, Sadism, Anililagnia & More: 10 S*xual Rituals People Don't Know They Practice

Sexual fetishism is a s*xual focus on a non-living object or non-genital body part. The object of interest is called the fetish while the person who has a fetish for that object is a fetishist.

 

S*xual fetishism appears to be discussed in hushed tones for a number of reasons as most people falter from confessing what actually turns them on. 

 

This however doesn’t mean a lot of people do not enjoy or indulge in them. Realistically anything can be turned into a fetish, it just depends on a person’s desires and preferences. Everyone has got their own fetish, and it may be anything.

 

Below is a list of 10 weird sexual fetishes which people enjoy in reality but don’t know they practice:

 

1. Anililagnia 

It is probably the most common fetish there is which means an attraction to older women. There are a lot of men who find women that are older than them immensely attractive. If you’re a man and your thing is older women, your fetish is probably anililagnia. 

 

2. Voyeurism 

Quite a good number of people are unconsciously into this but they find it difficult to admit it. Voyeurism basically describes people that get sexually aroused by looking at the naked bodies of other people having s*x. 

3. Retifism 

This is otherwise known as shoe fetishism which has been portrayed time in movies. People with this fetish are commonly attracted to women in high heeled shoes while they may also have a love for certain features of the leg such as open toes in shoes. 

 

4. Underwear fetishism 

Underwear Fetishism is characterised by focusing on an array of underwears ranging from pants, bras, pantyhose and certain types of fabrics including lace and leather. If you notice your partner staring at you intensely while you wear or take off your underwear, they may be displaying a harmless fetish of theirs.

 

5. Sadism 

This one describes you if you’re the type that enjoys pain during intercourse. This is also a fairly common fetish that may range from harsh biting, whipping, biting and candle wax. Sadism is basically about enjoying pain and inflicting pain on your partner for the purpose of gaining sexual pleasure. 

 

6. Pygophilia 

Pygophilia describes people that have an immense sexual love for buttocks. This fetish is ideally not weird since quite a number of people in Nigeria have this salient fetish in them.

7. Podophilia 

Podophilia is a type of sexual fetish that refers to a sexual love for the foot. If differs from retifism in that there’s a marked interest by the individual in licking and smelling of the foot during sexual interaction, and a love for foot treatment and good aesthetic appearance of the toes and feet. 

 

8. Trichophilia 

A person with trichophilia is sexually aroused by hair. More specifically, they gain arousal by looking or touching hair on the head, chest and hair on other parts of the body. This sexual fetish transcends men and women with men mostly enjoying the long silky hair on a woman and women in reverse enjoying the stubble of a man’s brow or hair on his chest.

9. Pictophilia 

Pictophilia is one of the few fetishes that might help you understand your #boyfriend a little better. Men are very visual creatures and this could better explain why.This common fetish is all about having a fascination with pornographic pictures. This actually can be alone or with their partner. So if your guy looks at porn, this could be one of the fetishes that he has! 

 

10. Water 

It may seem rather weird but water is quite a popular fetish with both genders. Running water somehow does the magic for some people. Let it be a shower or even rain, hearing it or looking at it turns them on. To take things even further, some women feel aroused by the lightning and thunder. The view of massive flashes of light suddenly embarks their sudden lust for sex.