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Mechanophilia – a case report of a specific fetishistic disorder [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry
In our case report, we present a very rare variant of fetishism, mechanophilia, by describing a case from our forensic psychiatric practice. Mechanophilia is a form of fetishism classified as a paraphilia, when a person is sexually aroused by various ...
Peter Osvath   +3 more
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Tickle fetishism: pleasure beyond playfulness [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychol
Tickling is commonly perceived as juvenile play associated with laughter. However, its potential connection to adult sexual behavior has largely remained unexplored.
Ishiyama, Shimpei, Dagher, Sarah
core   +2 more sources

Sexual desire for non-normative sexual behaviors: differences between centennials and millennials considering sexual orientation [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
IntroductionNon-normative sexual behaviors were traditionally studied from a psychopathological perspective, although nowadays a distinction is made between paraphilia (nonpathological) and paraphilic disorder (mental disorder).MethodsThe present study ...
Alberto Paramio   +7 more
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Religious fetishism, commodity fetishism and sexual fetishism: transpositions and connections

open access: yes, 2014
The concepts of sexual fetishism and commodity fetishism are roundabout transformations of a prior concept: religious fetishism. This article tries to account for this conceptual transmutation and for the effects the establishment of this new categories of fetishism had over their precursor.
Pires, Rogério Brittes W.
openaire   +3 more sources

HE LATE PHILOSOPHY OF GEORG LUKÁCS: HISTORY, FETISHISM AND ALIENATION

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia, 2016
The Late Philosophy of Georg Lukács: History, Fetishism and Alienation. Lukács’s late ontological turn is an attempt to go beyond the limitations of his early thesis of the identical subject-object and to better understand those forms of objectivity ...
Cristian NICHITEAN
doaj   +2 more sources

Fetishism and panic disorder-an uneasy coexistence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Fetishism is a distressing condition that may have a link with panic disorder. We highlight a 29-yearold man who presented with a constant urge to search for lace pillows to achieve his sexual satisfaction. He further reinforced his sexual behaviors with
Chun, Keat Ng   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Care and COVID 19: Lessons for liberals and neoliberals

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Within the liberal political traditions, care is regarded as a private matter, a problem of ethics rather than justice. Social justice is framed as an issue of economics (re/distribution), culture (recognition) and/or politics (representation).
Kathleen Lynch
wiley   +1 more source

Of Plants, and Other Secrets

open access: yesSocieties, 2012
In this article, I inquire into the reasons for the all-too-frequent association of plants and secrets. Among various hypotheses explaining this connection from the standpoint of plant morphology and physiology, the one that stands out is the idea that ...
Michael Marder
doaj   +1 more source

Polyembolokoilamania with obsessive compulsive and related disorders: A case series

open access: yesIndian Journal of Psychiatry, 2023
Polyembolokoilamania is a condition seen in a medical or surgical emergencies where the person, sometimes repetitively, inserts various foreign bodies through body orifices or skin to obtain gratification often associated with background psychiatric ...
Avik Kumar Layek   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Information is Power? Transparency and fetishism in International Relations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
International actors, state and non-state, have embraced transparency as a solution to all manner of political problems. Theoretical analyses of these processes present transparency in a fetishtic manner, in which the social relations that generate ...
McCarthy, D.R., Fluck, M.
core   +1 more source

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