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	Mask fetishism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mask fetishism is a desire to see a subject wearing a mask.
		The mask may be a Halloween mask, a surgical mask, ninja mask, or any other kind of mask.
		A similar fetish for women wearing Muslim or harem veils is veil fetishism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mask_fetishism (95 words)

	Scuba fetishism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is a type of sexual fetish which falls under the broader category of aquaphilia.
		For many, the arousal comes from the wearing of face masks; this is related to fetishes involving gas masks, hazmat suits, and decorative masks (see mask fetishism).
		Not only is it predominantly a male fetish, but the sole fact that not everyone has a large enough indoor pool often enough prohibits living out fantasies with a partner.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scuba_fetishism (408 words)

	UEA, EAS, Knots, Fetishism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Anthropologically considered, a fetish is any object which possesses power, not by representing a deity or some aspect of a formal religious belief-system, but by virtue of its ability to bring together forces often sexual and violent, which are normally tabooed or shunned.
		The fetish surrounds itself with a mystery because it hints at powers which we are in awe of, are fascinated by, but which we know to be dangerous or even inimical to ordinary human life.
		Again Freud's account of fetishism will not yield what the moralists require because, as Lacan states categorically "there is no sexual relation" by which he means that the way in which we acquire a means of connecting our physiological responses of arousal to our socially conditioned norms of relationships to another person are substantially discontinuous.
	www.uea.ac.uk /eas/people/corker/knots/fetishism.shtml (735 words)

	-:¦:- All About Gas Mask, Order Gas Mask Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A gas mask, also known as a respirator, is a mask worn on the face to protect the body from airborne pollutants and toxic materials.
		Gas mask sexual fetish is often combined with the use of other sexual latex devices, such as, among others, Vacracks.
		Sid Wilson, DJ for the band Slipknot (which comprises nine masked members) is known to be a collector of gas masks, and wears a variety of different types on stage.
	www.gas-mask.tk (1311 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Gas mask
		A gas mask is a mask worn on the face to protect the body from airborne pollutants and toxic materials.
		Cluny MacPherson of The Royal Newfoundland Regiment, while serving in Gallipoli in 1915, where he acted as an advisor on poisonous gas, used a helmet taken from a captured prisoner to fashion a canvas hood with transparent eyepieces that was treated with chlorine-absorbing chemicals.
		The 1940s comic book hero the Sandman wore a gas mask as part of his first costume, in part to protect himself from the sleeping gas he used on criminals, but also to inspire fear in them as well.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Gas_mask (1066 words)

	The Reproduction of Daily Life - The Fetishism of Commodities
		They are paid to obfuscate, to mask the social form of practical activity under capitalism, to veil the fact that producers reproduce themselves, their exploiters, as well as the instruments with which they're exploited.
		The fetish worshipper does not know this; for him labor and land, instruments and money, entrepreneurs and bankers, are all « factors » and « agents.
		The fetishism of commodities and money, the mystification of one's own daily activities, the religion of everyday life which attributes living activity to inanimate things, is not a mental caprice born in men's imaginations; it has its origin in the character of social relations under capitalism.
	www.geocities.com /~johngray/reprod03.htm (1120 words)

	Genders OnLine Journal - A Myth Beyond the Phallus: Female Fetishism in Kathy Acker's Late Novels
		The female fetish, as many of its theorists have noted, is positioned to hit psychoanalysis where it hurts, aiming at the very myth which secures the centrality of the phallus: castration.
		If Acker's mention of fetishism targets Freud rather than Lacan, she is nevertheless very concerned with the specifically Lacanian definition of female sexuality as "not-having" or "being" the phallus--a condition which results in women's automatic fetishization of the penis (Lacan, "Meaning" 84).
		Insofar as Acker's mention of female fetishism is seen as instrumental to her projected escape from phallic myths, her decision to stand inside the voice of these fathers aims at a political and philosophical disruption which stems, according to Butler, from rendering that voice "occupiable" (150).
	www.genders.org /g34/g34_kocela.html (8403 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.
		Tournier's agents of commodification—ogres, tourists, admen, and filmmakers—certainly discredit fetishism as a culturally constructed perversion and seem to follow the received interpreta tion of fetishism as a negative effect of commodification.
	www.ncf.edu /hassold/FinDeSiecle/apter_fetishism_in_theory.htm (3680 words)

	Byron Hawk's CW 98 Paper
		Fetishism, erotomania, etc., are inseparable from the processes of facialization" (170).
		For DandG, "Either the mask assures the head's belonging to the body, its becoming animal, as was the case in primitive societies.
		Or, as is the case, now, the mask assures the erection, the construction of the face, the facialization of the head and the body: the mask is now the face itself, the abstraction or operation of the face.
	english.ttu.edu /kairos/3.2/features/hawk/face.htm (2015 words)

	Joe's Master's Thesis
		The fetish, for Freud, works in much the same manner as "play": the object and drive are "merely soldered together," and therefore "in the first instance independent of each other," and the object is arbitrary, i.e., the fetish's origin is not likely to be due to the object's attraction.
		The marxian fetish Kaplan's cursory refutation of a Frankfurt School "repression theory" is in error if she presumes that the sources she cites are somehow representative of Marx's work on the fetish.
		The result of this fetishization of our situation is a notion of human nature which oscillates between denial and affirmation of the ability to determine our own destiny in relation to each other and to nature.
	web.nwe.ufl.edu /~jbess/portfolio/danceMASTER.html (9722 words)

	Anesthesia fetishism - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Anesthesia fetishism is a very specialized sub-category of medical fetishism in which sexual arousal is induced by the idea of general anesthesia, and the various equipment and paraphernalia related to its use.
		The causes of this fetish are unproven, but discussions on anesthesia fetish forums often point to pre-pubescent childhood experiences of anesthetic induction where the experience has been of non-intravenous methods, particularly mask induction.
		As with other forms of fetishism, it does not necessarily interfere with a normal life unless the person is completely absorbed by it, seeks to physically act out fantasies with real drugs, or is consumed with guilt.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=1571673 (540 words)

	eBay Guides - The history of fetish.
		A fetish (from French fétiche; from Portuguese feitiço; from Latin facticius, "to make") is a natural object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular an object created by people that has power over people.
		In de Brosses' theory of the evolution of religion, he proposed that fetishism is the earliest (most primitive) stage, followed by the stages of polytheism and monotheism, representing a progressive abstraction in thought.
		Theoretically, fetishism is present in all religions, but its use in the study of religion is derived from studies of traditional West African religious beliefs, as well as Voodoo, which is derived from those beliefs.
	reviews.ebay.com /The-history-of-fetish_W0QQugidZ10000000000090504 (566 words)

	planetdan
		The "masks" are quite possibly one of the most disturbing fashion statements I've ever seen.
		I am SO gonna take a knitting class this fall, it'll be so worth it to crawl into your bed in the middle of the night with that girl mask on.
		The girls mask could definately rival the scary clown on the Stephen King classic.
	www.planetdan.net /blog/2004/08/ths-stuff-nightmares-are-made-of.htm (326 words)

	Colloquy, Issue 8, A. Fernbach, Fantasies of Fetishism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Fantasies of Fetishism is a compelling, demanding and often entertaining discussion of the extensive cultural implications of “fetishism.” Engaging with a diverse range of cultural texts, Amanda Fernbach endeavours to unsettle and reconfigure the discursive models through which fetishism has traditionally been understood.
		Fernbach’s central point of critique is the model she labels “classical fetishism.” This concept of fetishism is derived largely from Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of fetishism, which holds the fetish to be a mask for the mother’s sexual difference, ultimately functioning to obscure the truth of her absent phallus.
		It is proposed that various modes of fetishism can be used as tools in discovering progressive and liberating post-human identities, Fernbach’s argument ultimately expressing a utopian vision in which difference and plurality might be freely expressed and readily endorsed.
	www.arts.monash.edu.au /others/colloquy/issue8/Coleman.htm (539 words)

	:: armada magazine ::
		Fetishism is cool for the people who enjoy themselves with these peculiar acts, but harmless onlookers may not be sold.
		Knowing that fetishes are usually created by an interest in a certain body part of a male or female, a mere peek at a breast or the site of a brassiere can leave someone sexually stimulated on the spot.
		So fetishes can be a bit bizarre to those who do not take part in them, but there definitely aren't any barricades holding those wackos back from accidentally including us in their fun!
	www.armadamag.com /ali_ashton17.htm (674 words)

	Notes Installment 6
		Now that we have examined the fundamental elements of Marx's conception of the nature of capital, it is an appropriate time to consider various ways in which the mystification Marx introduced us to in his discussion of commodity fetishism is developed and enhanced by the presence of capital.
		The role of circulation and competition: the amount of surplus value produced in an enterprise depends only on the capital invested in labor power, but the amount of surplus value redounding to the enterprise depends on the total capital invested.
		Surplus value produced per worker could be increased either through an increase in the length of the working day or through a decrease in the time it takes the worker to reproduce the value of his labor power.
	www.uwm.edu /~sensat/courses/438/notes06.html (2681 words)

	Ed Gein
		Ed Gein a serial killer was known for grave robbery, necrophilia, cannibalism, sadism, death fetishism.
		Born at the turn of the century into the small farming community of Plainfield, Wisconsin, Gein lived a repressive and solitary life on his family homestead with a weak, ineffectual brother and domineering mother who taught him from an early age that sex was a sinful thing.
		This serial killer was known for grave robbery, necrophilia, cannibalism, sadism, death fetishism.
	www.allserialkillers.com /ed_gein.htm (375 words)

	BIANCA's LATEX LAIR - RED SHOE DIARY-
		After a few pictures I had to remove the mask since the water contact and my breathing were fogging up the visor.
		Thinking back, I wouldn't be able to tell you which mask I preferred as both brought me different sensations.
		But I have the feeling that the second mask has the potential of adding exotic sensations in my bed ;-) Most probably because I had a bit less air and it was hotter.
	www.latexlair.com /diary/entry_march2001.html (784 words)

	interdisciplines : Rencontres Art et Cognition : Authenticity in Art
		The nominal authenticity of a purported Rembrandt or a supposedly old Easter Island carving may be keenly defended by its owners (collectors, museum directors), but the vast majority of articles and books that investigate the provenance of art works are written by people with no personal stake in the genuineness of individual objects.
		But apart from that, there is the more important idea that interacting with the original "puts us in touch" with the artist in the way the duplicate cannot, because of the different causal/historical properties of the two, those non-observable, extrinsic, relational properties to which Sperber, Pouivet and Bloom allude in different ways.
		The trouble with that appeal, though, right-minded as it is, is that it seems to be open to the charge of acknowledging in artistic originals only "fetish" value, such as any object with which an artist came in contact, e.g.
	www.interdisciplines.org /artcognition/papers/4/4/1/language/fr (4374 words)

	purl.org/kryptos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Fetishism is the use of non-sexual or nonliving objects to gain sexual excitement.
		Transvestic fetishism is wearing clothes of another gender for sexual reasons.
		Paraphilias and fetishes (Some may be considered sex crimes in various jurisdictions).
	azymos.multiply.com /tag/sex (7078 words)

	Romantic Ecologies Section 1
		The inherent act of dispossession or disenfranchisement in such assertions appears, in Kinsella's poems, not only to produce and structure a type of "trauma," but in fact to be dependent upon trauma, as the elemental locus of the elemental violence that is never absent from absolutism in any of its many forms.
		Calling to mind those species caught in the grip of mimicry, this concept of traumatic realism suggests a way in which we might view "the real" in terms of a certain notion of programme, in which a compulsion to repeat describes the basic condition of the "individual" and of cultural production generally.
		In a recent interview, Kinsella elaborates upon this in terms of narrative (as verisimilitude) which he insists is "a device, an artifice, not reality"6 (which should also draw our attention to the distinction between "reality" and "realism" in traumatic realism–or again, between "realism" and the "not reality" of narrative discourse).
	www.iit.edu /~dbrande/Rhizomes/Rhizomes/CurrentIssue/armand/armand1.html (802 words)

	ArtLex on Leather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Leather is associated by some with sexual fetishism, or with motorcycles, or with some types of music -- heavy metal rock, for instance.
		By the time this mask was made, he was not necessarily a servant, but might be a peasant, a dentist, a physician, a painter or a soldier.
		Also see applied arts, art conservation, basketry, fetish, ink, Kolinsky, paper, stump or stomp, and surface.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/kl/leather.html (990 words)

	APTER: UNMASKING THE MASQUERADE: FETISISM AND FEMININTY FROM THE GONCOURT BROTHERS TO JOAN RIVIERE
		In this context, the expression rhetorical fetishism refers to the taste for epithet, mannered syntax, and tropes of hyperbole and accumulation commonly used by the Goncourts to render the codes of feminilite.
		But there are risks in underscoring the feminine mask, for this exposed transparency of artifice also reveals the extent to which masculinity relies for its own mythic gender on a contrivance of gender in the opposite sex.
		One might conclude here that fetishism is failed masquerade, for when the man dons the mask of womanliness it remains an unconvincing representation of femininity, whereas the opposite is true when women adopt a cover-up for masculine attributes—their travesty appears to be entirely believable.
	www.ncf.edu /hassold/WomenArtists/apter_unmasking_the_masquerade.htm (10051 words)

	Barbara Steele's Ephemeral Skin: Feminism, Fetishism and Film
		Put simply, fetishism is when some body part or inorganic object (here an image) is either needed to achieve the sexual aim or replaces it altogether.
		Hardy is closer to the specifically filmic nature of desire for Steele when he precedes his fetish comment by claiming “her mere presence suffices to trigger the perverse but fundamental and pleasurable fantasies that form the raw material of the horror genre itself” (9).
		Steele's drama of totalisation as the fetish object for male fans of Italian horror is, worse than being burnt at the stake or donned with her mask, the real tragedy of her destiny.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/02/22/steele.html (4210 words)

	Fetish/Power/Art
		The term fetishism was first used by Portuguese sailors who landed off the coast of West Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries to describe this so-called primitive culture's religion as the worship of inanimate things and of animals.
		Today fetishism is defined as the worhip of material objects supposed to have inherent power.
		This exhibit examines African art objects and their shift in Western conception from fetishes to cultural objects of power and then to objects of aesthetic merit.
	lists.village.virginia.edu /uvamesl/best_practices/grd3m/fetish.html (339 words)

	MYSTERIES
		Talismans" and "fetishes" have been exciting Western curiosity for a long time: Les Curiositez inouyes sur la sculpture talismanique des Persans (Unheard-of curiosities in the talismanic sculpture of the Persians), by Jacques Gaffarel, appeared in 1629, and Du Culte des dieux fetiches (On the cult of the fetish gods), by Charles de Brosses, in 1760.
		The first of these works, a popularization of erudite humanist scholarship, was part of the movement to rehabilitate antiquity that developed after the collapse of Christian scholasticism; the bases of the second were the belief in progress and the slave trade.
		This opinion, restated by Auguste Comte and the proponents of evolutionism, was taken as a lasting proof for 150 years: fetishism is the most primitive form of religion; fetishes and talismans are somewhat arbitrarily chosen objects.
	www.lafemmemagazine.com /mysteries.htm (707 words)

	fetish.toronto-goth.com
		Clothing fetishism is by far the most popular and well known fetish.
		Clothing fetishism is obviously closely aligned with other fetishes.
		This fetish has been around for ever and no matter how politicians and religious groups try, it will always remain.
	www.toronto-goth.com /fetish/about (674 words)

	Fetish: Fahion,Sex & Style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Everything you ever wanted to know or not know about fetishism, from its historical roots to how fetish "themes" are today being assimilated into popular culture, is discussed.
		Steele's basic premise is that the shift in attitudes toward sex and gender has given rise to the phenomenon of fetish fashion and that fetishism is evidence that human sexual behavior is heavily influenced by fantasy.
		She goes to great lengths to illuminate just how widespread the influence of fetishism has had on popular culture.
	www.lookonline.com /fetish.html (352 words)

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