The Soho Love Goddess.

[LabelKing]

http://nymag.com/nymetro/nightlife/sex/features/1862/

 

[robin]

Is there a tldr version? I can't read a sentence of that before my mind starts to wander.

 

[LabelKing]

Some nice tidbits about heel fetishes.

 

[matadorpoeta]

it just is not sympathetic to me. men who "need" (their word, not mine) a certain heel, a certain this, a certain that, are just being pussies. i love women's feet, but as soon as the article becomes about men's secret desires, it becomes feminine. men are very simple.

 

[Arethusa]

I imagine her response would be that such specificity is distinctly masculine and that women characteristically do not fetishize.

In any case, there were some interesting observations, but it's mostly arrogated pop psych bullshit dressed up in florid prose.

 

[matadorpoeta]

Originally Posted by Arethusa

I imagine her response would be that such specificity is distinctly masculine and that women characteristically do not fetishize.

In any case, there were some interesting observations, but it's mostly arrogated pop psych bullshit dressed up in florid prose.

a fetish is one thing. a fetish for a specific body part on a particular model year of a particular car, is GAY.

 

[LabelKing]

I appreciate the fact that she apparently doesn't use "slang" and lots of swear-words to describe sex. Sex described in ascetic academic tones is far more compelling.

It gives off a medicinal, perverse vibe, unsentimental and voyeuristic.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by matadorpoeta

a fetish is one thing. a fetish for a specific body part on a particular model year of a particular car, is GAY.
A fetish would be categorized as a distinct, obsessive, almost mystical fixation given to what is usually an innocuous item; and I think culturally, it is a largely male phenomenon, whether heterosexual or homosexual.

 

[matadorpoeta]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

I appreciate the fact that she apparently doesn't use "slang" and lots of swear-words to describe sex. Sex described in ascetic academic tones is far more compelling.

It gives off a medicinal, perverse vibe.

agreed.

her take on men's desires still has an outsider feel to it. show me a woman who understands what men want, not a woman who studies and has rote knowledge.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by matadorpoeta

agreed. her take on men's desires still has an outsider feel to it. show me a woman who understands what men want, not a woman who studies and has rote knowledge.
Characteristically, a fetish would be inherently "outsider", I think. Fetishes are largely academic and rather technical in their range despite the intent of arousal and its patois is something that can be learned. Fetishes have very narrow dimensions and is definitely unlike the mysteries of romance.

 

[unpainted huffheinz]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

I appreciate the fact that she apparently doesn't use "slang" and lots of swear-words to describe sex. Sex described in ascetic academic tones is far more compelling.

It gives off a medicinal, perverse vibe, unsentimental and voyeuristic.

JG Ballard fan?