I often get a haunted feeling when I notice these ghosts left on the side of a building from one which was there but demolished now. I was happy to see someone else thinking about them and even getting a collection of photos. These come from London, UK. How many have you seen in your own area? Did you ever stop and get a photo? Or, see what you can find out about the building no longer there?
Source: London’s ‘Missing Buildings’ by Thom And Beth Atkinson | Amusing Planet
Paranormal and the Unexplained
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Ghost Preservation Worse Than Demolition?
This is not preserving history. It looks like a skin graft that didn’t take. A mask to be taken off when the party is over. I haven’t noticed anything like this before, but, I’m not living in Toronto these days.
Worse than demolition? I don’t know. I doubt something left like this will be maintained with the same effort as the newer building which really is part of the structure. How likely is the old facade to be left to crumble away when it really isn’t needed. Just an attempt at making peace with local historians.
This is why I love the photographs of the original places. It is sad that photographic technology hasn’t always had all the options for colour and detail which we have now. Yet, what will people a hundred years from now think of our obsolete images? Nothing can really be preserved, it can only be kept a little longer.
London is filled with grafted facades, nearly two-dimensional artifacts held in place while updated buildings are constructed behind them; many seem to haphazardly half-disguise the boring new stru…
Source: Saving Face: ‘Ghost Facade’ Preservation Worse Than Demolition? | Urbanist
Ghost Sign in Peterborough
Our Scott Arnold spent the day in downtown Peterborough getting a great vantage of the city’s architecture and buildings from rooftops. Have a look at his great pics below (notice the Market Hall Tower stands out in many).
Source: Postcard Perfect: Rooftop Views Of Downtown Peterborough — PtboCanada
I went to Google Maps to get a better look.
Is Your Television Alive? – Ghost Geeks : Ghost Geeks
Is Your Television Alive?
White noise and phantom images are just the beginning. The electronic aethyr is still the great unexplored country.
There is a whole new study developing around the electro-aethyr, or EA as it is sometimes known. Like all new areas of study, the interest in the electronic aethyr, has been developing for some time.
In the early days of radio, telephony and phonography, the very nature of the new communication medium may have hit a nerve. For the first time, disembodied voices were appearing like magic. Imagine, if you will, sitting on a sofa in front of the fireplace listening to a haunting melody sung by a favorite crooner who was, unfortunately dead for many months. Today we are well accustomed to such things, but what a potent brew of nostalgia it must have cased, mixed uncomfortably with the disquieting fear of hearing the dead speak from a music box.
I imagine there was a cold shiver that shook that listener when the thought crossed his or her mind that maybe what was causing the music box to play was actually alive. Perhaps the realization that only the same music played over and over again calmed that listener’s nerves. But I remember an old woman once telling me that her mother swore her phonograph occasionally played songs that were not on the album. It would happen to her just after midnight. The lyrics were German, and half way through the song would just fade away.
Are there really ghosts in our machines?
More Ghosts in the Machine – Ghost Geeks : Ghost Geeks
More Ghosts in the Machine
Now that people are more emotionally attached and in tune with their electronics than their houses, is it any wonder more and more people report that their computers are haunted? That there really are ghosts in our machines?
Years ago I came across a report concerning a suicide, where the suicide note claimed “I can no longer stand it. Every night, night after night it tells me to kill myself. It talks to me from my TV. It lectures me, humiliates me and mocks me.” What disturbed me most about this was what I found out with a few brief phone interviews. A neighbor told me that the victim told him that this happened even when the television was off.
“I thought he was crazy,” the neighbor said. “Hell, I knew he was crazy, but I’m telling you one night I snuck up to his living room window to listen. It was last fall. Warm enough for the window to be open but not so hot the air conditioning was on. I listened for ten, maybe fifteen minutes and all I heard was the program he was listening to- CNN or something. So I was feeling pretty stupid by then and I was about to turn around and get out of there when I hear someone say, ‘Cut your wrists. Get the steak knife and do it now.’”
For a minute the phone line was dead between us. I didn’t know what to say, so I just waited it out from him to get going again.
“Now I know you think this is crazy, but his TV was right near the window I was outside of and I’d swear that’s where the voice came from.”
Day Time Adventures
Day time adventures are my personal favorite because I can take pictures and actually see the building in natural lighting. Although the buildings are losing their old looks, they’re gaining new characteristics such as vines and erosion that give them a unique, beautiful look. There’s a rich history to be accounted for once you really take a look at them. Each place has a story to tell.
Source: Your Guide to Urban Exploration | EVERYTHING EXCLUSIVE MAGAZINE
I prefer daytime adventures too. I like to see everything and I’m not looking around hoping to scare myself with ghosts.
Phantom City
When thousands of residents of the Chinese cities of Jiangxi and Foshan reported seeing a ‘floating city’ in the clouds earlier this month, theories attempting to explain it ran wild, speculating everything from experimental holographic technology to glimpses of an alternate reality. A shaky video captures what appears to be the silhouette of a city skyline high above the horizon, at a larger scale than that of the real skyscrapers on the ground.
Source: Phantom City: Thousands Spot Towers Floating in the Clouds | Urbanist
Ghosts from Maple Leaves
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-29524 size-full" src="http://thatgrrl.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/leafghosts.jpg" alt="leafghosts" width="1000" height="1333" /><img class="aligncenter" src="http://thatgrrl.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/12063206_1474895152818811_1220802380_n.jpg" alt="" width="1080" height="1080" />Source: House of Strand
Ghost Hunters Burn Historic Mansion
The fire at LeBeau broke out at about 2 a.m. local time Friday, Nov. 21, and the building was almost completely destroyed by the time firefighters arrived. The ghost hunters had been trying to produce a reaction from the spirits they assumed resided there, by doing what TV ghost hunters call “provocation,” essentially making loud noises, yelling taunts at the ghosts and banging on walls. Frustrated that their efforts failed to yield any spirits, the group decided to light a fire. Whether this was intended to smoke the spirits out or simply burn the place down, the resulting flames soon reduced the mansion to ashes and four brick chimneys.While many ghost hunters engage in harmless (and fruitless) fun, as this case shows, there can be a dark, dangerous side to the pursuit. In the wake of popular ghost-hunting TV shows, police across the country have seen a surge in people being arrested, injured and even killed while looking for ghosts.
Source: Ghost Hunters Burn Historic Mansion
Painting of Lebeau Plantation by Elaine Hodges.
From Wikipedia: LeBeau Plantation
The LeBeau Plantation existed in Arabi, Louisiana. It was built as a private residence by Francois LeBeau in 1854. Francois Barthelemy LeBeau bought the land in 1851 and the demolished the house that was already on the property. Though LeBeau died the year that the plantation home was complete, his widow Sylvanie Fuselier lived in the home until her death in 1879.
Between the 1920s and the 1940s, the LeBeau Plantation was known as the Cardone Hotel.
Examiner: Haunted Lebeau Mansion burned by careless ghost hunters
Nobody had lived in the mansion since the 1980’s and there were no injuries. A piece of history was lost in the Arabi, Louisiana. All that is left behind are the four tall chimneys and a pile of charred lumber.
A mansion that stood strong for over 160 years and even survived hurricane Katrina could not fight off the fire that took her to the ground by the carelessness of these seven men.
Fetish List to Review
A
Ablutophilia: A fetish for baths or showers that usually centers around a naked person lathering themselves up.
ABR: "Adult breast feeding."
Acomoclitic: A fetish for hairless genitals. Similar to: gynelophilous, hirsutophilia, hyphephilia, pubephilia, trichophilia.
Acrophilia: A fetish for having sex in high places.
Acrotomophilia: A fetish for amputees and shortened limbs.
Acucullophilia: A fetish for circumcised men.
Acousticophilia: A fetish involving sounds. This can include such things as being aroused by music or a partner’s moaning.
Actirasty: A fetish for sun exposure. This is often a fetish of tanorexics, fans of outdoor sex, or those who only date really tan people.
Adolescentilism: A fetish for acting, dressing, or being treated like an adolescent.
Agalmatophilia: A fetish for a human-like doll, mannequin, or statue. This does not include the use of sex dolls merely as surrogates for real partners. Similar to pygmalionism.
Age Play: A type of fetishistic role-playing in which people pretend to be substantially older or younger than they are. Includes adolescentilism and infantilism.
Agonophiliac: A fetish for violence or fighting as foreplay.
Agoraphilia: A fetish for sex in public places.
Agrexophilia: A fetish for having other people know about your sexual activities. This can include people with agoraphilia, those who like to have loud sex, exhibitionists, people who like to put their homemade sex tapes online, or those who simply like to brag about their conquests.
Air Inflation: One of the most common types of inflation fetish. This usually involves the fantasy of inflating a person with a bicycle pump to a comically large size. Some practitioner of this fetish enjoy pumping air into their partner’s anus.
Algolagnia: A fetish for pain.
Allorgasmia: A fetish for fantasizing about someone other than your current partner.
Allotriorasty: A fetish for sex partners of another race, ethnicity, or nationality.
Alphmegamia: A fetish for older partners.
Altocalciphilia: A fetish for high heels. Common among those with a foot fetish. Synonyms: retifism.
Alvinolagnia A fetish for stomachs. Likely linked to the importance of wide hips when it comes to natural childbirth. Synonyms: partialism.
Amaurophilia: A fetish for not being seen during sex. This usually involves turning off the lights or blindfolding a partner. Some peeping toms and fans of glory holes have this fetish.
Anaclitism: An erotic fixation on the objects one was exposed to as an infant, such as anal thermometers, bibs, bottles, pacifiers. Similar to: autonepiophilia, infantilism.
Anasteemaphilia: A fetish for partners who are much shorter or taller.
Androidism: A fetish for humanoid robots. Similar to agalmatophilia and Pygmalionism.
Andromimetophilia: When a woman is sexually aroused by dressing, acting, or being treated like a man.
Anophelorastia: A fetish for ravaging a partner.
Antholagnia: A fetish for the scent or sight of flowers.
Aphephilia: A fetish for human touch.
Apotemnophilia: A fetish for having your own limbs amputated.
Aquaophilia: A fetish for water that goes far beyond enjoying sex on the beach or in a hot tub.
Archnephilia: A fetish for spiders.
Asiaphile: A fetish for Asians.
Asphyxiophilia: A fetish for being suffocated or choked.
Asthenolagnia: A fetish for weakness or being humiliated.
Autagonistophilia: A fetish for having others spy on you, particularly while naked or engaging in sexual acts. As opposed to exhibitionists who get off on exposing themselves to unsuspecting victims, a person with this fetish creates situations in which other people may see her naked, like sun bathing nude or changing in front of an open window.
Autassassinophilia: A fetish for coming close to death, particularly during sex.
Autoandrophilia: A fetish for women who dress, behave, or look like men.
Autoerotic Asphyxiation: Choking yourself while masturbating to achieve a more intense orgasm. This often involves the use of belts or ropes. People who have died from this form of masturbation include, kung-fu master David Carradine and INXS rocker Michael Hutchence.
Autogynephilia: A fetish in which a man derives sexual pleasure from imagining himself as a woman. This is a common fetish for cross dressers. Origins: coined by Ray Blanchard.
Autonepiophilia: A fetish for acting, dressing, and being treated like an infant. Synonym: anaclitism, infantilism.
Avisodomy: A form of bestiality involving sex with a bird.
Axillism: A fetish for armpits.
B
Bathroom Denial: A type of denial play in which the dom refuses to let the sub urinate and/or defecate.
BDSM: “Bondage, discipline, and sado-masochism.” A catchall term for fetish play.
Belonephilia: A fetish for sharp objects such as knifes, needles, or razors.
BFP: “Bound for pleasure.” A BDSM term.
Biastophilia: A sexual disorder in which arousal is derived from the thought or act of assaulting another, often in a sexual manner.
Body Inflation: Being sexually aroused by the fantasy of physically expanding yourself, or others. This fetish often involves wearing inflation devices under your clothes or fat suits.
Bondage: Fetish play in which a submissive partner is physically restrained.
Bondage Babe: A woman dressed in fetish gear, including latex, fishnets, collars, or PVC. Often refers to a woman who is more into fetish as a fashion than a lifestyle, or a fetish model who only participates in fetishistic acts for pay.
Bottom: A sex partner who is submissive to a dominant partner or who is penetrated by the top.
Bottom Space: The mental space of a submissive partner in fetish play.
Branding: A form of body modification in which the skin is scarred by heated objects. Branding can be done as a form of body art or to demonstrate ownership of a sub by a master.
Breast Expansion: A growth fetish that if often related to fetishes for weight gain or inflation. Enthusiasts enjoy watching breasts increase in size, often by means of animation or by saline injections.
Burping Fetish: A fetish for watching, hearing, and/or smelling a person burp. Often related to fetishes for farting, feeding, or vore.
C
Cage Fetish: A fetish for being confined to a small space. This often manifests as a sub being locked in a cage, box, or a closet. The caged sub is then teased, taunted, tortured, and/or ignored by the dom.
Candaulism: A fetish for showing off your partner, or images of him/her, to others.
Catheterophila: A fetish for having catheters inserted.
Castration Fetish: A body modification paraphilia for being castrated, for castrating others, or for people who are castrated.
Cat O’ Nine Tails: A multi-tailed whip, often used in fetish play.
Choker: A collar often worn in the BDSM scene to signify ownership in much the same way a wedding ring does in the vanilla community. These collars are often used on subs during fetishistic acts.
Choreophilia: A fetish for dancing, or dry humping on the dance floor, to climax.
Chrematistophilia: A fetish for paying for sex, or for being robbed or blackmailed by a sex partner.
Chrysophilia: A fetish for gold or gold colored objects. Similar to timophilia.
Coprophagia: A fetish for consuming human feces.
Coprophilia: A fetish for playing with, handling, or rubbing human feces on oneself.
Coulrophilia: A fetish for clowns or other types of street performers. Synonyms: Bozophilia, clown paraphilia.
Counting Games: While being spanked, flogged, or whipped, the sub is required to keep count of the number of strikes. Often involves some variation of the phrase, “Thank you master, may I have another.”
Cross-Eyed Fetish: A fetish for people who are cross-eyed.
Crurophilia: A leg fetish.
Crushing Fetish: A fetish for watching small insects or animals being crushed to death.
Cuckold: 1. A man whose wife or girlfriend has sex with other men. 2. A fetish in which men enjoy watching their female partner have sex with other men, particularly men who are physically imposing. Origins: Form the cuckoo bird, which changes mates frequently and lays eggs in other birds’ nests.
Cum Inflation: A version of inflation fetish in which a person fantasizes about pumping so much semen into a sex partner that her body bulges and swells with male ejaculate.
Cupping: A type of sadomasochistic play derived from a healing practice in ancient Chinese medicine. Typically the dom uses a flame to remove the oxygen from a glass cup. The cup is then quickly placed on the sub’s skin. The vacuum sucks the skin into the glass, creating a large, hickey-like mark.
Cutting Fetish: Sexual pleasure is derived from inflicting cuts on oneself or a sex partner. Related to: amputation/amputee fetish, blade play, blood fetish, body modification fetish, goro, medical fetish, nollo, non-con, pain play, snuff, vore
D
Dacryphilia: A fetish for witnessing others cry. Often a fetish of sadists who enjoy dominating subs to the point of tears.
Degradation: A fetish for being psychologically degraded, or degrading a partner. Synonyms: erotic humiliation.
Dendrophilia: A fetish for having sex with trees.
Denial: Refers to a few types of denial play, including orgasm denial, bathroom denial, sensory denial, food/water denial.
Devotee: A person with a fetish for disabled people. The two most common fetishes devotees have are abasiophilia and acrotomophilia.
Diaper Fetish: A common prop incorporated into age play or fetishes for infantilism, scat, watersports, humiliation, dominance, helplessness… Some believe this fetish develops early in life, when a child associates diapers with being loved and coddled. Extreme diaper fetishists make themselves incontinent so that they need to wear diapers constantly.
Dippoldism: A fetish, or paraphilia, in which pleasure is derived from spanking or physically abusing another person.
Discipline: 1. When a dominant partner trains a submissive on fetish protocol. 2. Punishment inflicted on a submissive for disobedience.
Dog Training: When a submissive partner is treated like a dog. A common form of role playing in BDSM.
Dominance and Submission, D&S: BDSM.
Dominant, Dom: The partner who enjoys control in a fetishistic relationship. Synonyms: daddy, dominatrix, master, top,
Dominatrix: A female dom in a fetishistic relationship.
Doraphilia: A fetish for leather, fur, hair, or skin. Similar to hyphephilia.
Dracophilia: A fetish for dragons.
Dysmorphophilia: A fetish for mentally or physically impaired partners. Similar to teratophilia.
E
Ecouteurism: A fetish for eavesdropping on others having sex.
Electrophilia: A fetish for electricity, which usually involves electro-stimulation.
Emetophilia: A fetish for vomiting or watching others vomit, particularly after gagging during fellatio. Synonyms: vomit fetish.
Endytophilia: A fetish for sexual partners who remain clothed.
Ephebophilia: A paraphilia involving an attraction to teens or mid to late adolescents generally between the ages of 15-19.
Eproctolagniac: A fetish for farts. Synonyms: flatulophilia.
Erotographomania: A fetish for writing, particularly love poems or letters.
Erotophobia: Fear of expressing or experiencing sexual desires.
Erotophonophilia: A fetish for murder. Common among serial killers.
Exhibitionism: A fetish for being a public spectacle. This often manifests in streaking, public sex, or flashing. A common trait among porn stars.
F
Fat Admirer/Fetish: A fetish for obesity. A broad category for several sub-fetishes: padding, inflation, stuffing, gaining, immobility, feederism, feedism, feeding fetish.
Feederism, Feedism, Feeding Fetish, Forced Feeding: A fat fetish in which pleasure is derived from feeding oneself, or another, with the intention of increasing a person’s size. Related to: gaining, inflation, immobility, padding, stuffing,
Female Muscle Fetish: A fetish for muscular females. This often stems from a sub’s desire to be dominated and emasculated by a physically superior female.
Fetish: Sexual arousal resulting from a fixation with a specific act or thing. Some fetishes are so intense that a person has trouble reaching an orgasm unless he engages in, or at least fantasizes about, his fetish.
Fetishize: To develop a sexual obsession around an object or act.
Flagellation: Striking a partner via whipping, spanking, flogging, or paddling.
Flatulophilia: A fetish for farts. Synonym: eproctolagniac.
Flip Flop: To serve as both the dominant and submissive partner, the top and the bottom, at different times during a relationship or a single sex session. Common among the gay, lesbian, and BDSM community.
Flogger: A type of whip with multiples tails.
Food/Water Denial: A type of denial play in which the dom refuses the sub food or water.
Foot Fetish: Being sexually aroused by feet, to the point where you want to stick feet in your mouth and rub your genitals on them.
Formicophilia: A fetish for insects crawling on you and your genitals. Often involves ants.
Frotteurism: A fetish for rubbing against an unsuspecting, and non-consenting, person. Often performed on trains, buses, or in crowds.
Frottage: Non-penetrative sex acts that often involve rubbing. Includes ass jobs, the Cardinal George, cock dogging, foot jobs, hand jobs, Harvard Style, outercourse,The Princeton Rub, titty fucking…
Frot: Usually refers to any non-penetrative sex act that involves two penises rubbing together. Synonyms: cock rub, bumping dicks, frictation, frontism, the Ivy League rub, knocking cocks, Oxford style, the Princeton Rub, sword fighting, tummy sticks…
Furry: One who has the fetish ursusagalmatophilia, in which people wear downy costumes to either dry hump or have anonymous sex with other furries. Also includes people who likes to have sex with stuffed animals. Synonyms: plushies.
Furvert: One who has a fetish for pubic hair.
G
Gag: Any object used to obstruct a person’s breathing or to prevent them from talking, especially during sex. A common sex toy in BDSM play.
Gagging: Most often refers to a partner choking during fellatio and deep throating.
Gaining: A fat fetish in which pleasure is derived from the idea of oneself, or another, gaining weight. Related to: feederism, feeding, feedism, inflation, immobility, padding,
Gerontophilia: A fetish for older partners, particularly partners who belong to an older generation.
GGG: "Good, giving, and game." The term was coined by Dan Savage, in attempt to define what we should all strive to be for our sex partners. "Think ‘good in bed,’ ‘giving equal time and equal pleasure,’ and ‘game for anything—within reason.’"
Goo Fetish: A fetish for gooey substances, which often takes the form of tentacles. Related to wet and messy fetishes, and sploshing. Synonyms: slime fetish
Gun Fetish: A fetish for the power embodied by guns. In practice this fetish can manifest as women posing with, firing, or performing sex acts with guns. In extreme cases, it can involve a person aiming a gun at his sex partner during sex.
Guro: A fetish for blood and guts that often involves the fantasy of creating gashes in another’s skin for use as a sexual orifice. This is a popular fantasy depicted in animated hentai films. Some people with guro fetish wish to be disemboweled themselves. Similar to: amputation/amputee fetishes, nullo, body modification, vore, snuff, non-con, pain play, cutting and medical play.
Gymnophilia: A fetish for nudity.
Gynemimetophilia: A fetish for female impersonators.
H
Haematomania/Hematolagnia: A fetish for blood.
Hamartophilia: A fetish for committing sins, as defined by your religious upbringing. Synonyms: pecattiphilia.
Haptephilia: A fetish for being touched.
Harmatophilia: A fetish for mistakes or rule breaking, especially in terms of sex.
Harpaxophilia: A fetish for being robbed. Similar to chrematistophilia.
Hematolagnia: a fetish for using or drinking blood in a sexual manner.
Hierophilia: A fetish for sacred or religious objects.
Hirsutophilia: A fetish for body hair.
Hodophilia: A fetish for travel.
Homilophilia: A fetish for listening to or delivering speeches or sermons. Some believed Hitler had this fetish.
Humiliation: A type of fetish play in which the submissive partner is made to feel ashamed or degraded. Can involve anything from penis humiliation to public humiliation. Synonyms: degradation.
Hybristophilia: A fetish for crime and criminals, especially those criminals who gain public attention. Every serial killer is flooded with love letters and marriage proposals from people with this fetish. Similar to phygephilia.
Hygrophilia: A fetish for body fluids, such as semen, tears, saliva, or sweat.
Hyper Fetish: A fetish for having a specific body part that is absurdly large. Variations include hyper breasts, hyper muscles, hyper testicles, hyper ass, hyper penis. Of these, the most common are muscle, penis, and breast. This kink is often depicted in animated, hentai porn. However, these fantasies can come to life with body building, implants, and saline injections.
Hyphephilia: A fetish for touching skin, hair, leather, fur, or fabric. Similar to doraphilia.
Hypoxphilia: A fetish for being suffocated. Synonym: asphyxiophilia.
I
Immobility Fetish: A fat fetish in which a person stops moving, or is forced to remain stationary, while increasing his caloric intake in order to gain weight rapidly. Related to: fat fetish, feederism, feeding, feedism, gaining, inflation, immobility, padding,
Impregnation Fetish: A fetish for the fantasy of impregnating a sex partner. Related to fetishes for vaginal creampies or pregnancy.
Infantilism: A fetish for dressing, acting, and being treated like an infant. This often requires practitioners to hire a dominatrix to serve as a "nanny."
Inflation Fetish: When sexual pleasure is derived from the fantasy, or reality, of physically filling a sex partner up with various substances. Related to: air inflation, cum inflation, fat fetish, feederism, feeding, feedism, gaining, immobility, padding, stuffing,
Icolagnia: A fetish for looking at nude photos, images, or statues.
K
Kigurumi: A fetish involving anime masks. This most often manifests as men dressing up as female anime characters.
Kinesophilia: A fetish for exercise.
Kink: A preference for the unconventional, especially when it comes to sex. Origins: From a kink in an otherwise straight rope, possibly related to the popular kink of bondage or whipping.
Kinky: Open to a variety of sex acts that many people consider devious.
Kleptophilia: A fetish for stealing.
Klismaphilia: A fetish for enemas.
Knismolagnia, Knismo: A fetish for ticking others or being tickled.
Knissophilia: A fetish for incense.
L
Lactation Fetish: A fetish for lactating breasts. Fans of this fetish often want to nurse, be milked, or milk their partner. Often related to infantilism, pregnancy fetish, hyper breasts, breast expansion, or wet and messy fetishes.
Lactophilia: A fetish for breast milk.
Lesbophilia: A fetish among men who are aroused by girl-on-girl sex. This sometimes refers to men who like to image themselves as lesbians.
M
Macro Fetish: A fetish for giant, though not necessarily obese, sex partners. Often reserved for the realm of anime or fantasy. Can be related to micro fetish, macrophilia, vore, crushing, or growth fetish.
Macrogenitalism: A fetish for large genitals. Similar: phallophilia.
Macrophilia: A fetish for giants. This often involves the fantasy of being at the complete mercy of a much larger sex partner.
Maschalagnia: A fetish for smelling armpits.
Masochism: A fetish for being subservient to a dom who delivers physical or emotional abuse.
Master: The dominant partner in fetish play. Often a title the sub must use in reference to the dom. Ex. Master Honey Badger.
Master-Slave Relationship: An ongoing, fetishistic relationship between a dom and sub.
Mechanophila: A fetish for machines like cars, bikes, or gadgets.
Megalophilia: A fetish for large objects.
Melolagnia: A fetish for music.
Merinthophilia: A fetish for bondage. Synonyms: vincilagnia.
Metrophilia: A fetish for poetry.
Micro Fetish: A fetish for being small, or for engaging in sex play with small partners. This is often related to macro fetishes, as the person often enjoys imagining that he is small in comparison to his giant object of worship. Practitioners of this fetish often like to be smothered or crushed by a larger partner. Often related to vore and crushing.
Mixophilia: A fetish for watching a partner or yourself engage in sexual activity. This fetish often involves mirrors or sex tapes.
Monster Fetish: A fetish for a wide range of monstrous creatures. Practitioners of this fetish often enjoy the fantasy of being dominated by a monster. The romance book series, Twilight, created a whole generation of women who enjoy the fantasy of being dominated by werewolves and vampires.
Morphophilia: A fetish for specific body shapes that deviate from the norm. This could include a love of fat people, dwarfs, amputees…
Mpreg: "Male pregnancy". This fantasy is often reserved for the realms of hentai pornography.
Multiple Body Parts: A fetish for sex partners with extra appendages, including breasts, orifices, penises, or limbs. Having multiple breasts may make a sex object seem hyper-female, just as multiple penises may make a male seem hyper masculine. Related to monster fetishes.
Mummification: A type of bondage in which the submissive partner is completely immobilized, often by being wrapped in materials like plastic wrap or being stuffed in a body bag.
Mysophilia: A fetish for dirt or filth. Often a fetish for smelling or tasting items stained by human fluids. Such items could include underwear, soiled clothes, or a used tampon.
N
Narratophilia: A fetish for dirty talk, sex stories, or having conversations about sex.
Nasophilia: A fetish for noses. This includes an attraction to a specific type of nose or even a desire to penetrate a partner’s nostrils.
Necrophilia: A fetish for human corpses.
Non-Con: "Non-consensual" BDSM play. This may refer to rape or sex play in which either partner is aroused by the fantasy of a forced encounter.
Normophilia: A fetish for acts that do not violate laws, social norms, or religious doctrine.
Nullo: An extreme body modification fetish or paraphilia in which a person wants to have their genitals removed, or nullified. Similar to: amputation/amputee fetish, goro, vore, and orgasm denial.
Nyctophilia: A fetish for darkness or the night. Synonyms: scotophilia.
O
Objectum Sexuality, Objectophilia: A broad category of fetishes in which a person is sexually aroused by a specific class of physical objects like cars, monuments, or dolls.
Ochlophilia: A fetish for being in crowds.
Oculolinctus: A fetish for licking eyeballs.
Oculophilia: A partialism fetish that centers around the eyes.
Odaxelagnia: A fetish for biting.
Odontophilia: A fetish for teeth. This can manifest in a person liking to lick teeth, to leave bite marks, or to extract teeth.
Olfactophilia: A fetish for smells. Usually involves body odors.
Ophidicism: A fetish for reptiles.
Orgasm Denial: A type of fetish play in which a dom teases the sub, but refuses to let him reach orgasm. This can include the use of such devices as a cock cage.
Osmolagnia: A fetish for body odors like sweat or flatulence.
Oviposition: A fetish for egg laying. An uncommon kink, sometimes found in the furry community and usually only satisfied by means of fantasy or animation.
Ozolagnia: A fetish for strong smells.
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Paraphilia: Any sexual fetish that is classified as a disorder because of its extreme nature, because it is harmful, or because it violates a society’s mores or laws.
Parthenophilia: A fetish for virgins.
Partialism: A fetish for specific body parts. This includes such fetishes as nasophilia, oculophilia, and podophilia.
Pediophilia: A fetish for sex toys, specifically dolls.
Pecattiphilia: A fetish for sinning, as defined by your religious upbringing. Synonyms: hamartophilia.
Penis Humiliation: A fetish for receiving derogatory comments about the size and inadequacies of your penis.
Peodeiktophilia: An exhibitionistic paraphilia in which a man is aroused by exposing his penis to unsuspecting victims.
Phallophilia: A fetish for large penises. Similar: macrogenitalism.
Phobophilia: A fetish for feeling afraid.
Phygephilia: A fetish for fugitives, or living as a fugitive. Similar to Hybristophilia.
Pictophilia: A fetish for watching porn. Also, when one watches so much porn of the same act or person, he develops a fetish for that act or person.
Piquerism, Picquerism: A fetish for piercing, or penetrating, another person’s skin. People with this fetish often concentrate on piercing erogenous zones. Origins: from the French word piquer, or "to prick."
Plushies: Those who have ursusagalmatophilia: Synonym: Furries.
Plushophilia: A fetish for stuffed animals. Synonyms: ursusagalmatophilia.
Podophilia: A partialism fetish that revolves around feet.
Polyiterophilia: A fetish for group sex.
Psychrocism: A fetish for being cold, or being with a partner who is cold. Also a fetish for cold objects such as snow, ice, or a frozen glass dildo.
Pregnancy Fetish: A common fetish for fertile woman who are visibly pregnant. This fantasy often focuses on swollen breasts and bellies. Related to impregnation fetish.
Pubephilia: A fetish for pubic hair.
Pygmalionism: A fetish for a statue or a human-like image, especially a work that is of one’s own creation. Often involves rubbing oneself against a statue. Synonyms: agalmatophilia. Origins: The word derives from the character, Pygmalio, in Greek mythology, who falls in love with an idealized image of a woman he carves out of ivory.
Pygophilia: A fetish for butts, specifically seeing, touching, or playing with a butt.
Pyrolagnia: A fetish for watching or setting fires.
Pyrophilia: A fetish for using fire or burning objects in sex play.
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Raptophilia: Being sexually aroused by the fantasy of raping another. Synonym: Biastophilia
Retifism: A foot fetish that revolves around shoes. Similar: altocalciphilia.
Rhabdophilia: A fetish for being beaten, flogged, or whipped.
Robotism, Robot Fetish: A fetish for robots, particularly using robots in sex play. This fetish may become more common with the rise of increasingly automated sex dolls.
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Sadism: A fetish for dominating a submissive partner by inflicting physical, emotional, or psychological abuse.
Sadist: A person who is sexually aroused by administering pain to himself or others.
Sadomasochism, SNM, S&M: A broad category of activities in which one partner derives sexual pleasure from administering or receiving psychological or physical pain.
Salirophilia: A fetish for soiling the objects of one’s desire. This often manifests in a sex partner being coated in filth. Can be related to bukkake, urolagnia or coprophilia.
Scatophilia: A fetish for excrement.
Scopophilia: A fetish for being a voyeur.
Scoptophilia: An exhibitionistic fetish for watching a partner or yourself engage in sexual activity. May involve mirrors or a sex tape. Synonym: Mixophilia.
Scotophilia: A fetish for darkness or the night. Synonyms: nyctophilia
Siderodromophilia: A fetish for trains. Often involves having sex while on a train.
Sitophilia: A fetish for food. Often involves incorporating food into sexual foreplay.
Slave: A submissive partner who has an ongoing relationship with a dominant master.
Slime Fetish: A fetish for slimy substances, which often takes the form of tentacles. Related to wet and messy fetishes, and sploshing. Synonyms: goo fetish.
Sneezing Fetish: A fetish for watching others sneeze, usually while naked. This may be related to the fact that sneezing is involuntary and can not be faked, as well as the fact that sneezing triggers some of the same nerves as an orgasm. Often related to tickling.
Snuff: A paraphilia that centers around the fantasy of killing or being killed. Related to: amputation/amputee fetish, body modification fetish, goro, medical fetish, nollo, non-con, pain play, vore, necrophilia
Somnophilia: A fetish for asleep or unconscious sex partners. Synonyms: sleeping princess syndrome.
Sounding: The act of inserting something into the urethra to inflict a mixture or pleasure and pain. Derived from the medical practice of removing blockage and clearing up urination issues. Often performed by using medical grade sounding rods made of steel. Sounding enthusiasts have branched out, using a variety of objects, including such seemingly painful and harmful objects and toothbrushes or glass. Synonyms: urethra play.
Spectrophilia: A fetish involving the fantasy of having sex with ghosts.
Sploshing: Splashing watery foods on one’s self or a partner as an act of foreplay or for sexual gratification.
Squashing: A fetish for being squashed by another partner.
Stigmatophilia: A fetish for body piercings.
Stuffing: A fat fetish in which a person eats, or is made to eat, to the point of physical pain. Related to: fat fetish, feederism, feeding, feedism, gaining, inflation, immobility, padding,
Submissive, sub, subbie: One who derives sexual pleasure from yielding control to a dominant partner.
Symphorphilia: A fetish for disasters or car wrecks, particularly watching or causing them.
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Tantalolagnia: A fetish for being sexually teased.
Taphephilia: A fetish for being buried alive.
Technophilia: A fetish for technology, which usually centers around cyborgs, robots, and sex machines. This fetish is often related to other fetishes, such as replacing an amputated limb with a machine, or having sex with a robotic sex doll.
Telephonicophilia: A fetish for phone sex or dirty talk.
Tentacle Fetish: A fetish for tentacles, often depicted in hentai or other forms of animated erotica. Origins: Tentacle porn derived from a Japanese folktale and has since become popularly depicted in hentai. In these henati scenes, characters often suffer from "tentacle rape," in which tentacle-like-protrusions from a plant, animal, or monster force themselves on a victim.
Teratophilia: A fetish for deformed or monstrous people. Synonyms: dysmorphophilia.
Thesauromania: A fetish for collecting women’s clothes. This usually involves collections of panties or undergarments.
Tickle Torture: A form of BDSM in which a submissive partner is tickled, often while being bound.
Tickling Fetish: A fetish for being tickled or for tickling submissive partners. Tickling often triggers some of the same muscles as orgasms. Also, some tickling enthusiasts see the act as an expression of intimacy. Others simply enjoy torturing a partner or seeing their partner cry from forced laughter.
Timophilia: A fetish for wealth. Similar to chrysophilia.
Transformation Fetish, TF: A fetish for transforming or changing people into other people, objects, or creatures. This sexual fantasy is often limited to depictions in hentai and other forms of animated porn, though some body-modification enthusiasts do try to physically transform themselves into non-human creatures. Sub-genres of transformation fetish include: human-animal TF, object TF, gender TF, cock TF, and combining TF.
Trichophilia: A fetish for hair.
Triolism/Troilism: 1. Threesome. 2. A fetish for threesomes, or for watching your partner have sex with another person.
Tripsolagnophilia: A fetish for getting or giving massages.
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Underwear Fetish: A fetish for underwear. This usually involves men who like to smell, wear, or collect unwashed panties.
Urethra Play: The act of inserting objects into the urethra to inflict a mixture or pleasure and pain. Synonyms: Sounding.
Urolangia: A fetish for watching others drink urine.
Urophilia: A fetish for being urinated on or for urinating on another. Variations: golden shower.
Ursusagalmatophilia: A fetish for teddy bears. Also, a fetish for dressing up in animal costumes. A form of plushophilia, which is a fetish for stuffed animals. Variations: furries, plushies.
Urtication: A BDSM practice of using nettles to sting a partner’s skin, causing them to develop hives. The practice was once used to treat paralyzed body parts.
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Vicarphilia: A fetish for living vicariously through others. Often involves listening to other people’s sexcapades.
Vincilagnia: A fetish for being bound or tied up. Often involves a desire to feel at the mercy of another. Synonyms: merinthophilia.
Vomit Fetish: Any fetish involving vomit. These include being vomited on, watching others vomit, or forcing oneself to vomit. Synonyms: Emetophilia.
Vore, Voraphilia: A fetish for being eaten alive, or eating another person who is still alive. A sexualized version of cannibalism.
Voyeur, Voyeurism: A fetish for spying on others, particularly their sexual activities.
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Water Sports: Any type of sex play that involves urine or enemas. Also a category of porn.
Wet & Messy Fetish: A broad spectrum of fetishistic acts that involve making a sex partner wet and messy with various substances. This includes bukkake, sploshing, goo fetish, slime fetish…
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Xenophilia: A fetish for strangers or foreign objects.
Yeastiality: A fetish for bread. Often involves having sex with warm dough.
Yiffing: Sexual acts involving stuffed animals.
Zelophilia: A fetish for feeling jealous.
Zentai: A fetish in which participants wear Zentai suits—skintight suits made from thin, stretchy fabric—in order to have anonymous sex with other Zentai enthusiasts, or to participate in some anonymous dry humping.
Zoophilia: A fetish for acting, dressing, and being treated like an animal. May involve walking on all fours, wearing a collar, and eating out of pet bowls.
Zoosexual: A fetish for animals.