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 Fur fetishism: Just the facts...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Fur fetishism is the name popularly used to describe a fetishistic (additional info and facts about fetishistic) attraction to people wearing fur (The dressed hairy coat of a mammal), or in certain cases, to the garments themselves.
One reason why fur may be fetishized is perhaps that the garment forms a "second skin (additional info and facts about second skin) " that acts as a fetishistic surrogate for the wearer's own skin.
The fur fetishists also refer to fur being "very soft and sensuous", and to the "tickling sensations" that the touch of fur creates against their skin, especially on the sensitive parts.
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 Fur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fur comes from the coats of animals; the animal's coat may consist of short ground hair, long guard hair, and, in some cases, medium awn hair.
Animal furs used in garments and trim may be dyed bright colors or to mimic exotic animal patterns, or shorn down to imitate the feel of a soft velvet fabric.
The soft, warm texture of fur appeals to many people; for some, the attraction becomes a fur fetishism, a fetishistic attraction to people wearing fur, or in certain cases, to the fur garments themselves.
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 Fur - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The creation of fur clothing involves leaving the hair on the animal's processed skin; in contrast, leather such as sheepskin involves removing the fur from the skin and using only the skin, and the use of wool involves shearing the animal's hair without harming the animal so that the wool can be regrown.
Fur trappers explored and opened up large parts of North America, and the fashion for beaver hats led to intense competition for supplies of raw materials.
Starting in the latter half of the 20th century, producers and wearers of fur have been criticized because of mounting beliefs that animal trapping and fur farms are cruel, and that the killing of animals for clothing is made unnecessary by modern natural and synthetic fibers.
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 Fur
When the fur is finally peeled off over the animals' heads, their naked, bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of those who have gone before them.
Modern cultures continue to wear fur and fur trim as dictated by fashion trends and it is still considered by many as a luxury item.
The chemical treatment of fur to increase its felting quality is known as carroting, as the process tends to turn the tips of the fur a yellowish-red "carrot like" colour.
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 Encyclopedia: Fur clothing
Modern cultures continue to wear fur and fur trim as dictated by climate and fashion trends, and is still considered by some a luxury item.
Animal furs used in garments and trim may be dyed bright colors or to mimic exotic animal patters, or shorn down to imitate the feel of a soft velvet fabric.
Fur farming is the agricultural practice of breeding or raising certain types of animals for their fur.
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 Fur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Producers and wearers of fur have recently been criticized because of mounting beliefs that animal trapping and fur farms are cruel, and that the killing of animals for clothing is made unnecessary by modernnatural and synthetic fibers.
Fur trappersexplored and opened up large parts of North America, and the fashion for beaver hats led to intense competition for supplies of raw materials.
The popular name of fur fetishism refers to a fetishistic attraction to people wearing fur, or in certain cases, to thefur garments themselves.
www.therfcc.org /RFCC/fur-30286.html   (220 words)

  
 Fur
Fur is the fine, soft body hair of non-human mammals.
True fur is the fur of animals which consists of short ground hair[?] and long guard hair[?].
Today, wearing fur is often criticized, for the sometimes cruel conditions under which the animals are held on fur farms[?].
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 Station Information - Fur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Fur has served as an important source of clothing for humans, especially in cold countries.
The popular name of fur fetishism refers to a fetishistic attraction to people wearing fur, or in certain cases, to the fur garments themselves.
Animals without fur may have the epithet "naked", as in The Naked Ape and naked mole rat.
www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/f/fu/fur.html   (183 words)

  
 Fur - Fundamentals.com.au   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Fur once served as an important source of clothing for humans, especially in cold climates.
Modern cultures continue to wear fur and fur trim as dictated by fashion trends and it is still considered by some a luxury item, although in many countries, wearing animal fur is considered taboo.
Today, considerable controvery exists over the methods of fur farming and trapping used to produce fur clothing, as well as whether animal fur should be used for clothing at all.
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 Racial Fetishism
Commodity fetishism is a kind of double forgetting, first the capitalist forgets that he has projected life and value into a commodity in the ritual of exchange, and then the commodity veils itself in familiarity and triviality and becomes understood as a natural or self-evident form of social life.
Sigmund Freud, of course, is attributed with the classification of fetishism as the simultaneous disavowal and avowal of male castration.
Compared to the fetishized feminine portraits of over-dressed, over-laced, over-corseted European women, that seem to demonstrate the excess, frivolity, and performativity of the feminine masquerade, Orientalist genre portraits offered a slightly different kind of fantastic plenitude, and thus reveal a different kind of lack inherent in other bodies with which she is in dialog.
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 Psychology Today's Diagnosis Dictionary: Fetishism
Fetishism is characterized as a disorder when there is a pathological assignment of sexual fixation, fantasies or behaviors toward an inanimate object -- frequently an item of clothing -- such as underclothing or a high-heeled shoe -- or to nongenital body parts -- such as the foot.
Fetishism is a more common occurrence in males, and the causes are not clearly known.
The fetish objects are not articles of clothing used in cross-dressing as in transvestite fetishism and are not designed for tactile genital stimulation such as a vibrator.
cms.psychologytoday.com /conditions/fetishism.html   (1323 words)

  
 Station Information - Second skin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The concept of a second skin is common to a range of clothing-related fetishes.
In spandex fetishism, wearers of skin-tight spandex garments may be perceived by the viewer as being naked, or simply coated in a shiny substance like paint.
In fur fetishism, the fact that the fur was originally an animal's skin and hair, and that it provides warmth and comfort.
www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/s/se/second_skin.html   (277 words)

  
 Fetish clothing - RecipeFacts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Fetish clothing includes any type of clothing and clothing materials which is commonly fetishized.
Note that these materials are also commonly used in functional clothing, and that clothes made of these materials are not necessarily fetishitic in nature.
However, this has also led to fetishization of functional clothing such as riding boots, diving suits and industrial clothing such as Hazmat suits and gas masks.
www.recipeland.com /encyclopaedia/index.php/Fetish_clothing   (155 words)

  
 Leather fetishism - RecipeFacts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Leather fetishism is the name popularly used to describe a fetishistic attraction to people wearing leather, or in certain cases, to the garments themselves.
One reason why leather may be fetishized is perhaps that the garment forms a "second skin" that acts as a fetishistic surrogate for the wearer's own skin.
The human pony fetish often involves elaborate leather harnesses.
www.recipeland.com /encyclopaedia/index.php/Leather_fetishism   (223 words)

  
 Knowledge King - Paraphilia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Similarly, consensual sadomasochism, exhibitionism, voyeurism and non-psychotic forms of fetishism, urolagnia and even coprophilia are increasingly becoming culturally acceptable forms of sexuality.
The fluidity and arbitrariness of such characterizations may be due to the fact that it is often very difficult to understand why some humans are predominantly aroused by certain stimuli that apparently leave the majority of the population unaffected.
fetishism: sexual attraction to a physical object, with common examples being
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 Fur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Despite the best efforts of the animal protest industry to shroud the wearing of animal fur in controversy using hyperbole, graphic images and celebrities eager to heighten their own profiles and that of their products fur continues to be seen as a natural and relatively environmentally friendly fashion commodity.
Today, the animal protest industry continues to expend considerable energy and resources to create controvery over the methods of fur farming and trapping used to produce fur clothing but record prices for fur pelts and the ubiquity of fur clothing and trim in the fashion media demonstrates fur's tenaciously duarble appeal.
To date the widespread use of dehaired animal skins in use such as leather or even sheepskins has curiously failed to attract the same investment of resources and time from the animal lobby and their fund raising campaigns.
www.abitabouteverything.com /files/f/fu/fur.html   (616 words)

  
 Fur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Animals watch helplessly as workers make their way down the row.
Because a fur's origin can't be traced, anyone who wears any fur at all shares the blame for the horrific conditions on Chinese fur farms.
The term "a fur" is often used to refer to a fur coat, wrap, or shawl.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fur   (1088 words)

  
 APTER: CHAPTER 1: FETISHISM IN THEORY: MARX, FREUD, BAUDRILLARD
Used in the eighteenth century by Charles de Brosses (dubbed "the little fetish" for his pains by Voltaire) to describe the idolatrous worship of material objects in "primitive" societies, the term was traced to fatum, signifying both fate and charm.
Though a semantic disjunction clearly emerges each time the word fetishism is displaced from language to language, discipline to discipline, and culture to culture, it is precisely this process of creative mistranslation that endows the term with its value as currency of literary exchange, as verbal token.
Velvet and fur reproduce—as has long been suspected- the sight of the pubic hair which ought to have revealed the longed-for penis; the underlinen so often adopted as a fetish reproduces the scene of undressing; the last moment in which the woman could still be regarded as phallic" ("F" 201).
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 Cultural Politics of Fur, The
In The Cultural Politics of Fur Julia Emberley explores the many interrelated - and often competing - cultural meanings of fur through its literary and popular representations and explains how fur has figured as a symbol of wealth and sexuality and a symptom of class, gender, and imperial antagonisms.
Nowhere has the dispute over fur's meaning been more fervent than during the confrontations in the 1980s between animal rights activists and Native peoples of northern Canada, whose claims for self-determination include collective rights to engage in the selling and trading, consumption, and production of animal products.
The fetishization of fur, Emberley shows, has deep roots that can be seen in late nineteenth-century literary and psychoanalytical narratives of sexual fetishism and fur, such as Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's novel Venus in Furs, and in early modern paintings and etchings.
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 Sexual Behavior Text 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In fetishism, sexual arousal occurs in response to some inanimate object or to a body part that is not primarily sexual in nature.
Other fetishists depend upon objects made of specific fetish materials, such as leather, rubber, silk or fur, or they are aroused by body parts such as hair, feet, legs, or buttocks.
Fetishism may be a security concern in severe cases when the fetish prompts behavior that is illegal, compulsive or lacking in discretion.
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 Fur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The fur around the area being injected has been shaved away, exposing the area to be injected.
Vereinigte Fabriken fur Laboratorium sbedarf was a manufacturing concern that made all sorts of instruments for laboratories and researchers.
Topside, its fur ranges from pale brown to reddish brown, while its underside and feet are white.
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 Commodity Fetishism
A fetish is any object that is believed to have special or magical powers, often associated with animistic or shamanistic religions.
The concept of commodity fetishism, then, was used by Marx to describe the over-appraisal of commodities in a capitalist economy.
This I call the fetishism which is attached to the products of labor, as soon as they are produced as commodities, and which therefore is inseparable from the production of commodities”(qtd.
www.georgetown.edu /faculty/sd224/Classes/ModernAmericanNovel/Fall2004/Reports/CommodityFetishism.htm   (1552 words)

  
 Met's Costume Institute Goes 'Wild' (phillyBurbs.com) | Other Entertainment
Fur is a major fashion trend at the moment, a point highlighted by rabbit fur-trimmed gown by John Galliano fresh from the fall 2004 Christian Dior runway, but it's a coincidence that the exhibit was staged now.
Soft fur against the skin as the lining of a garment or coat is both luxurious and practical, as it's sure to keep the wearer warm, so it never really goes out of style.
Wearing fur on the outside as a more blatant status symbol is more modern, probably emerging as a trend in the 19th century.
www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/83-12062004-412228.html   (845 words)

  
 Skin So Soft --> Info and Comparisons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
One reason why these materials may be fetishised is that the garment acts as a fetishistic surrogate for the wearer's own skin — a second skin.
Nylon fetishism (stretchy, smooth material, sometimes shiny) Some examples of turn-ons that are related to these:
The name is a reference to fetish clothing as a "second skin".
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 The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Wild show brings out the animal in fashion
Museum officials are braced for controversy over "Wild: Fashion Untamed," an exhibit of fashion's use of fur and feathers that opens this week with such graphic items as a jaguar's-head purse and a hat adorned with stuffed parakeets.
The exhibit traces how clothing made with animal skins, furs and animal-print fabrics have influenced fashion since women began stenciling leopard spots onto their unbleached linen sheaths in ancient Egypt.
Garments embellished with feathers in white or pastels, such as the beige silk organdy dress covered with rooster and bird-of-paradise feathers by Yves Saint Laurent from 1969, send a more subtle message because the light colors and softness of the look suggest innocence while the animation of the feathers is a tease.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002111344_fur07.html   (707 words)

  
 Fine Leather   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Leather with the fur still attached is simply called fur.
There are a number of processes whereby the flesh of a dead animal can be formed into a supple, strong material commonly called leather.
Am going to remove brackets from around fetishistic, because that page is simply a redirect to Fetishism which starts: Fetishism most generally refers to the belief that natural objects have supernatural powers, or that something created by people has power over people.
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 Fur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Zoologists at Oxford University who studied captive minks found that despite generations of being bred for fur, minks have not been domesticated and suffer greatly in captivity, especially if they are not given the opportunity to swim.
Starting in the latter half of the 20th century, producers and wearers of fur have been criticized by some because of the belief that animal trapping and fur farms are cruel, and that the killing of animals for clothing (or fur trimmed accessories) is made unnecessary by modern natural and synthetic fibers.
Sixty-four percent of fur farms are in Northern Europe, 11 percent are in North America, and the rest are dispersed throughout the world, in countries such as Argentina and Russia.
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