List of Fetishes in 2024

Looking for a list of fetishes found across the world and the kinky community?

Here we have compiled dozens and hundreds of fetishes so you know what they mean.

Be warned, some of them might be disturbing!

Glossary of Known Fetishes:

A

• Ablutophilia: A fetish for baths or showers that usually centers around a naked person lathering themselves.
• Acrotomophilia: A sexual attraction to amputees.

B

• Ball Busting: A fetish involving kicking or hitting the male genitals.
• BDSM: A wide-ranging fetish involving bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, and sadomasochism.

C

• Choreophilia: A sexual arousal from dancing.
• Coprophilia: Sexual arousal derived from feces.

D

• Dacryphilia: Sexual arousal from seeing tears in the eyes of a partner.
• Dendrophilia: Sexual attraction to trees.

E

• Electrophilia: Sexual arousal from electrical stimuli.

F

• Foot Fetish: Sexual attraction to feet.
• Furries: A fetish involving anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities and characteristics.

G

• Gerontophilia: Sexual attraction to the elderly.
• Gynemimetophilia: Attraction to male-assigned people who look, act, or are women, including cross-dressed men and trans women.

H

• Hybristophilia: Sexual arousal to criminals, particularly for people who have committed atrocities.

I

• Infantilism: A fetish where adults receive gratification from activities related to being a baby (wearing diapers, being fed, etc.)

K

• Katoptronophilia: Sexual arousal from having sex in front of mirrors.

L

• Latex Fetish: Sexual attraction to people dressed in latex clothing or to wearing latex clothing oneself.
• Looners: Individuals with a balloon fetish.

M

• Macrophilia: A fascination or fantasy about giants.
• Masochism: Sexual arousal from receiving pain or humiliation.

N

• Nasolingus: Sexual arousal from sucking on a person’s nose.

O

• Objectum Sexuality: Sexual or romantic attraction to inanimate objects.

P

• Pictophilia: Sexual attraction to erotic pictures, particularly pornography.
• Pygophilia: Sexual attraction to buttocks.

R

• Robot Fetishism: Sexual arousal from robots or robot-like individuals.

S

• Sadism: Sexual arousal from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others.
• Salirophilia: Sexual arousal from soiling the object of one’s desire.
• Spanking Fetish: Sexual enjoyment from the act of spanking.
• Spectrophilia: Sexual attraction to ghosts.
• Stygiophilia: A sexual attraction to the belief of hellfire and damnation.

T

• Teratophilia: Sexual attraction to deformed or monstrous people.
• Trichophilia: Sexual arousal from hair.

U

• Urolagnia (also known as urophilia): Sexual attraction to urine.

V

• Voyeurism: Sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other activities usually considered to be of a private nature.

X

• Xylophilia: A sexual attraction to forests.

Z

• Zoophilia: Sexual attraction to non-human animals.

Final Note:

When exploring fet