1:14 pm Wednesday, 2nd September, 2015
Ok, so in our first instalment we talked about human furniture, quicksand, and..erm…licking doorknobs!
Here are some more crazy and bizarre fetishes that you may not have heard of.
A Bug’s LoveLife
As weird and disturbing as the idea may be, formicophilia is the term for getting sexual pleasure and arousal from having insects crawl over the body, sometimes deriving additional pleasure when the aforementioned creepy crawlies give them an occasional bite.
While this is clearly an unusual fetish and is unlikely to be practiced by many people, it does bring with it one possible advantage – if a formicophiliac were to enter I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! they’d get through the ‘live insects in a box’ challenge with ease (the trick would just be hiding their hornyness).
Something to Bear In Mind!
The sight of a sexually promiscuous teddy bear in Seth McFarlane’s comedy ,Ted, no doubt elicited laughter in the vast majority of people who saw it. A tiny minority, however, may well have found the movie incredibly sexually arousing.
If you were one of those people who got turned on by Ted then chances are you’re a ursusagalmatophiliac – that is, someone who is sexually stimulated by teddy bears. This particular fetish is actually a subcategory of plushophilia, which is defined as a “sexual attraction to stuffed toys or people in animal costume, such as theme park characters”.
While most people confine their teddy bear sex lives to the privacy of their own homes some are far more open about it. An Ohio, USA, resident was arrested no less than four times for having sex with a teddy bear in public.
Things That Go Va Va Voom
Some sexual fetishes, no matter how bizarre, are practiced with discretion and don’t draw the attention of the authorities. Others are different, and in some cases have even led to the passing of legislation to make them illegal. One such fetish is mechanophilia.
Mechanophilia as the word implies refers to people who are sexually aroused by vehicles such as cars, aeroplanes, bicycles and helicopters. In the UK this is treated as a crime, and if you’re caught having sex with your car you could face prosecution.
In Britain, a man was arrested for having sex with his Land Rover in public – he had a previous conviction for attempting to have sex with a shop counter. In America another man claimed to have “slept” with over 1000 cars. Whether or not these acts were mutually consensual is unknown! ;-)
Go Hard or Go Home!
Ever since the ancient Greeks mankind has had a fascination with representing the human form in statues – by their very nature they offer up the human form in all its perfection, immortalised in rock for generations to come.
While many people get a feeling of admiration when looking at an impressive statue, some get a little more turned on. Agalmatophiliacs – presumably finding blow-up sex dolls too malleable and easy to use – get their sexual kicks from statues, dolls, mannequins and other such representations of the human form, while some are aroused by the thought of becoming a statue themselves.
The first recorded case of agalmatophilia came in 1877 when a gardener fell in love with the Venus de Milo and was caught attempting to have sex with it. While the legal status of the fetish is open, don’t get any ideas as we presume that having sex with Nelson’s Column on a Saturday afternoon will land you in hot water with the authorities!
What other weird and unusual sexual fetishes have you heard of? Why not let us know about them in the comments below?
