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  Sexual fetishism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sexual fetishism, first described as such by Alfred Binet in his Le fétichisme dans l’amour, though the concept and certainly the activity is quite ancient, is a form of paraphilia where the object of affection is a specific inanimate object or part of a person's body.
Transvestic fetishism, the fetish of dressing in the clothes of the opposite sex, is also common.
Some clothing materials are fetishized by a small number of people, perhaps on the basis that the material forms a "second skin" that acts as a fetishistic surrogate for the wearer's own skin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sexual_fetishism   (763 words)

  
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Corsets suitable only to wear at corset soirees such as classical mannequin corsets (see Wilbro's catalogue style PCMM 5), worn by those seeking to train a delicately minced gait in the high heeled shoes or boots they probably bought at Regent Shoes before it became Ravel.
Recall that she always wore tight-laced corsets and did this journey, wasp-waisted with straight-seamed stockings, a proud and elegant example to the modern generation, for close to a decade.
The connoisseur of corset design will also notice that on Iris Norris's corsets the eyelet pitch is reduced from 3/4 inch to close to half an inch for the three pairs of eyelets on either side of the waist line which was defined of course by the mandatory tape reinforcement.
www.corsetiere.net /Spirella/Corsetiere/Gardner.htm   (7104 words)

  
 wiki/Corset in fashion Definition / wiki/Corset in fashion Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The padded "iron corset" and armour was known as a corset on women, and a waistcoat (vest) on men.
The straight-front corset (also known as the swan-bill corset and the s-curve corset) was a type of corset worn from the start of the nineteenth century until around 1907.  Its name is derived from the very rigid, straight buskA busk (also spelled busque) is the rigid element of a corset placed at the centre front.
Corset from 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003)...
www.elresearch.com /wiki/Corset_in_fashion   (2095 words)

  
 wiki/Corset Definition / wiki/Corset Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In stays, the corsets worn between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, the busk was intended to keep the front of the corset straight and upright.
The corset fell from fashion in the 1920s in Europe and AmericaNorth America is the third largest continent in area and the fourth ranked in population.
Sexual fetishismSexual fetishism, first described as such by Sigmund Freud though the concept and certainly the activity is quite ancient, is a form of paraphilia where the object of affection is a specific inanimate object or part of a person's body.
www.elresearch.com /wiki/Corset   (3520 words)

  
 Dressed to Kill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Corset terminology was found in a number of chapters, as the book progressed through the history of women's underwear.
It is suggested that the beginning of the story of underwear as fashion coincided with the prototype of the corset in the 12th century Cottonian manuscript, presented in 1700 to the British nation by Sir John Cotton.
Rather, the author reinforced the fetishism of the corset as a racy and sexually empowered object, rich with iconography, which is quite outside the parameters of our analysis.
www.slais.ubc.ca /courses/libr512/01-02-wt2/thesauri/dressedtokill/pages/Reviews.htm   (2487 words)

  
 Corset Terms Dictionary
The Corset Question A term used to describe the controversy revolving about question of whether the wearing of corsets had a deleterious effect on women's health and the fashionable practice of tightlacing.
Corsets when finished were starched and fitted on to these moulds and steamed from the inside to dry out "molded' to the mannequin's shape.
Perineal Strap Often attached to the corset, it is used to anchor the corset, as well as for securing napkins/towels both for menstruation and, on children, to prevent "exploration." The "perineum" is the area between the thighs, covering the vulva and anal parts.
www.staylace.com /resourcelist/diction.htm   (2976 words)

  
 The Subversive Stays - Corsets and Sex, Erotica and Fetishis - The Corset College
Corsets have a place in many sadomasochistic games; its usefulness in bondage (laces as restraints and restricted movement) and discipline (knotted cords can be used for mild flagellation) has been well exploited.
Corset fetishism has been explained as childhood memories of the mother's underwear (less probable today) or the garment's ability to create pleasure, both physical and aesthetic.
Women involved in corset fetishism are notably tight-lacers (women are generally less interested in visual stimuli, as opposed to situations or feelings).
www.corsetcollege.net /thread/99   (1790 words)

  
 Verbal Abuse / A Corset Moment With Pearl
She still corsets herself - not for aesthetic reasons - it is not for a waist -reduction but to support her spine.
It is the corset that is the Dominant.
A: Wilhelm Stekel believed that fetishism was not only a religion but a form of true asceticism in that it avoids so-called 'normal' sexual intercourse.
www.mothernyc.com /verbal/pearl.html   (1788 words)

  
 Amputee fetishism - SM201
Amputee fetishism is one of the paraphilias grouped together as attraction to disability.
It is a fetish focused on amputations, generally of limbs.
Amputation fetishism is a paraphilia, a focus on a specific body part or inanimate object.
www.backdrop.net /sm201/index.php?title=Amputee_fetishism   (251 words)

  
 Computer Content Analysis in Sexology
The majority of pscyhoanalysts, for example, view fetishism as a regressive state: Chasseguet-Smirgel (1991) is a notable proponent of this view, but it has also been advanced by Abraham (1948) and is implicit in the equation of fetish objects with Winnicott's (1953) childhood transitional objects.
Fetishism has sometimes also been associated with altered states, most notably in Mitchell et al's (1953) famous case, in which the fetishist entered a trance-like state when gazing on a safety-pin.
As Chalkley and Powell (1983) showed, fetishism is an extremely varied phenomenon in terms of both the fetish object itself and the activities in which the fetishist seeks to include the object.
www.ejhs.org /volume5/wilson.html   (2203 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Fetish : Fashion, Sex, and Power: Books: Valerie Steele   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dividing her book into sections based on the various fetishes (corsets, shoes, second-skin fabrics, underwear), Steele shows a remarkable facility with the history and trivia of each item of clothing.
Consequently, psychoanalytic arguments that the fetish is always a stand-in for the phallus or feminist claims that certain fashions like corsets and high heels are intended to oppress women are potentially valid but reductive.
She does not accuratly address the role of fetishism in the gay and lesbian and bisexual community, but rather sticks to trannies and crossdressers.
www.amazon.ca /Fetish-Fashion-Power-Valerie-Steele/dp/0195090446   (1866 words)

  
 Michael Shanks - site 2006: Laura Driscoll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Any corset use (but most importantly the practice of tight-lacing involves some degree of compression of the internal organs and soft tissues of the abdomen and chest cavity, and children were often given training corsets to prepare the body for later corset use.
At the same time as corset use, it was fashionable for high society people to harness their horses with decorative reins that cinched the horse in a very uncomfortable position, not unlike corsets made women uncomfortable by binding them into an unnatural body form.
Corset fashion influenced whaling practices and was a large part of the European economy between 1500 and 1900, revealing connections between the caprices of fashion and the world of marketing and economics.
traumwerk.stanford.edu /projects/MichaelShanks/1071   (3732 words)

  
 NEW HIGH TECH LINE OF CORSETS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When the subject resists being corseted, these garments can be applied much more quickly, simplifying the problem of corseting someone who might struggle, resist or faint during the long process of lacing.
This is a leather and steel helmet and neck corset which either can be worn alone or locked to the collar of the Punishment corset.
Since the corset cannot be removed without inflating it, and since each corset and compressor nozzle form a unique lock and key combination, it is possible for the individual corset wearer who does not have a dominant partner to confine him or herself for extended periods.
www.staylace.com /textarea/originalfiction/@@nhtloc.htm   (724 words)

  
 Lovesick Corsets | About Corsets
Corsets for tightlacing are very different from orthopaedic appliances, many of which are as rigid as a body cast, and must be to effect any skeletal change.
The size of the corset's waist was proportionate to the rest of the figure, ie a turn of the century corset in my collection with a waist of 19" has a bust and hip measurement of 31".
Children's corsets were common from the 1800's to the 1920's, and were worn by girls and boys.
www.lovesickcorrectiveapparel.com /corset/advice/aboutcorsets.html   (2148 words)

  
 CoolCleveland.com - Kafka Corsets And Beautiful Scars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kunzle points out the psychological framework involving corset wearing: intellectual and “upwardly mobile” women are the main practitioners, asserting themselves through erotic expression knowing it’s deeply satisfying to own one's sexuality in a hidden and indirect manner.
Under the layers of utilitarian garments, the corset’s blatantly erotic definition of the female bodice promotes physical and visual excitement, sexualizing the woman’s body while affirming to the viewer its restraint.
The tight corset symbolically and physically contains and spills an erotically intense and enduring sexual readiness; the sensual tensions generated are consuming, constrictive, and sexually liberating in an unpredictable combination.
www.coolcleveland.com /index.php?n=Main.KafkaCorsetsAndBeautifulScars   (1179 words)

  
 Bridal Corsets wedding corsetry gallery for the perect hourglass corset for the bride   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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Bridal Corsets, bridal lingerie,historical corsets, tight laced corset, lace corsetvelvet corset, silk corset, moulin rouge corset, The corset is a close-fitting undergarment and is frequently hooked in front and laced in the back.
See "Embracing a Labour of Love" Tightlacing was the subject of the Corset Controversy in the late c19th, as physicians and others debated the health ramifications of the propensity of many ladies to attempt to corset their way to very small waists, much in vogue then.Truss To tighten upwards, e.g.
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 Corsets
There were tennis corsets, swimming corsets, hip corsets, inflatable bust corsets, electrical corsets, abdominal strengthening corsets, men's corsets, children's corsets, training corsets complete with crossing shoulder straps and attachable thigh-high boots to prevent the young trainee from removing her corset, and amazingly, maternity corsets.
When the corset had been laced until the waist was as tight as the wearer wanted, the regulators could then be tightened further to reduce her hips to the desired size.
Corsets when finished were starched and fitted on to these moulds and heated from the inside to dry out, moulded to the mannequins shape.
www.transgender.utvinternet.com /corsets.htm   (5378 words)

  
 Assasin of the human race   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The clergy were against the corset as they felt it encouraged wanton behaviour and the medical profession were against it as they were convinced that the wearing of corsets caused breast cancer (amongst many other diseases and ailments).
This was frowned upon by the Emperor Napoleon who referred to the corset as "an assassin of the human race" because he believed women would not wish to have children if they wanted to wear their corsets.
A too tight corset can cause mental damage due to swelling on the brain or high blood pressure, characteristics which could also be passed onto the unborn child and therefore create future generations of weak, feeble minded souls.
www.victoriaspast.com /Corsets/corset_the_assassin_of_the_human.htm   (1946 words)

  
 Tryste - The Visual Graffiti Interview | Scenography - The Theatre Design Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I would argue that the corset in its very nature is an object of fetishism and fantasy, not because we have made it so at present.
When you consider that the corset allows the wearer to create an image of themselves that is virtually impossible to have in real life, you can quickly understand why it is seen as a garment of fantasy.
I don’t think that the corset influences our idealised image of the female body as much as it has in the past when it was a fashionable garment to be wearing.
www.scenography.co.uk /features/tryste.html   (2040 words)

  
 Burlesque Bitch - Your Information Center for all things Burlesque
Sexual fetishism, first described as such by Alfred Binet in his Le fétichisme dans l’amour, though the concept and certainly the activity is quite ancient, is a form of paraphilia where the object of affection is a specific inanimate object or part of a person's body.
As Sigmund Freud described it later, sexual fetishes in men are the result of childhood trauma regarding castration anxiety.
Sometimes, whole cultures can develop the fetish to such an extent that it is no longer perceived as a fetish, but merely as a normal sexual desire; for example late-Victorian England's ankle fetish, or the modern commonplace fetish for lingerie.
www.saturnite.50megs.com /burlesquebitch/05fall/ezine.htm   (695 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - The Subversive Stays - Corsets and Sex, Erotica and Fetishism - A592274
Hence the many pictures of a corseted Marilyn Monroe - a generously proportioned woman (which she undoubtedly and successfully was) could be further enhanced by careful manipulation of laces and a suitably revealing pose.
The use of corsets in sex is apparently a proud tradition.
The idea that she is in casual wear suggests she's doing as she pleases, rather than being posed for the enjoyment of a (male) audience.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A592274   (2045 words)

  
 The Corset Trade in the Later 19th Century
The controversy surrounding corsets intensified in the later 19th century in part, at least, because of their increasing economic importance.
Around mid-century the corset became ''democratised''; once a relative luxury, it now was available to the new urban masses.
By the 1880s and '90s, in France and the U.S., the corset was literally part of the cityscape, being advertised on huge billboards.
www.corsets.de /The_Corset_Trade_in_the_Later_19th_.php   (467 words)

  
 Fashion & Fetishism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I returned with very long corsets, in which I found it easier to stay laced than to be uncorseted and recorseted.
Her appearance at the opening of the Museum of Modern Art’s “The Corset: Fashioning the Body”, curated by Valerie Steele, elicited a report in the Los Angeles Times in praise of the ‘well-preserved Connecticut woman’ who has permanently shrunk her waist from 28 to 15 inches.
Such photographs, which are unique of their kind, have appeared in fashion histories, notably Valerie Steele’s, who in her latest Corset apotheosised her in a blaze of polychrome luminary glory over a full page.
www.cathiejung.com /00000095430e87f01/00000095950862901/index.html   (215 words)

  
 News - October 2004
She has been wearing corset for 12 years and her current measurements are 103-45-98 cm (103-62-98 uncorsetted).
The corset is shaped somewhere between wasp waist and hourglass, so it only squeezes the ribs slightly.
The 2nd edition of Fashion and Fetishism by David Kunzle was published this august, and is largely available from bookstores.
www.corset.dk /News/2004-10.htm   (362 words)

  
 Alibris: Corsets
Although regarded as an essential element of fashionable dress, the corset was also condemned as an instrument of torture and the cause of ill health.
From corsets to codpieces, stockings to stilettos and piercing to push-up bras, fashion and sex have always enjoyed a very close relationship.
Fetish Fashion: Undressing the Corset is a treat for the eyes and minds of all readers.
www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Corsets   (615 words)

  
 Girdles and Fetishism
The genders were expected to dress and behave very differently, and the corset dresses designed by Fath in the 1950's illustrate the heavily polarised views of male and female sexuality at that time.
The corset or girdle is a perfect garment to assist in this punishment process, and is probably the main reason why it is such a common fetish item.
As well as imposing a more feminine shape on the male body, the corset or girdle acts to remind the individual at all times that they are being dominated.
homepage.ntlworld.com /davesplace/Fetish.htm   (1156 words)

  
 Corsetry - An Item Of Fetishism | Scenography - The Theatre Design Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
We asked Victoria to tell us what if any role the corset has played in her success and why she thinks it’s so significant to the perception of the iconic female silhouette.
A young model with a passion for costume and a sense of theatricality, we chose to speak to Tryste about her passion for corsets, costume and her stunning photo shoots.
Tryste works as a model in just about every genre from fetishism to mainstream work, and she is also a published photographer in her own right.
www.scenography.co.uk /features/ruth_evans.html   (370 words)

  
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