I was interviewed for the student newspaper at the University of Buffalo following a presentation I gave for a sexual communications course there. Here’s a link to the article on The Spectrum’s website.
I also saved the article as a PDF should the link get broken at some point. Here’s the PDF: Fifty Shades of Fetishes – The Spectrum
An excerpt from the article:
Brittney is turned on by the sound of urine falling into a toilet.
It’s one of her kinks.
Lorna Loster has been tying men up since she was 14 years old.
It’s her fetish.
A fetish is something one needs in order to have a fulfilling sexual experience while a kink is just something sexual one enjoys.
Although sometimes thought of as taboo or uncommon, 23.5 percent of UB students admitted to having some sort of kink or fetish including spanking, public sex, feet and bondage in The Spectrum’s sex survey.
Brittney, whose name has been changed for her privacy, is aroused by urine-related activities. This kink is also defined as urolangi, or “watersports,” including watching people urinate, getting urinated on – a “golden shower” – or watching people wet themselves.
This is only one of countless fetishes and kinks people could have. Some are more common, like a foot or spanking fetish, while others are less common and even illegal, like erotophonophilia, arousal from killing someone, or bestiality, the desire to have intercourse with an animal.
Bondage, however, is a fetish that has recently grown in popularity and acceptance. In 2010, the American Psychiatric Association announced it would change the diagnostic codes for fetishism and BDSM – overlapping abbreviation of bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism – in the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
Here’s a quote that I found interesting in the article, “New York is ranked 28 in amount of BDSM searches on PornHub.com, the largest porn website on the Internet. This includes the words “punish,” “bondage” and accounts for 1.2 percent of all PornHub searches.” We can do better, New York. Or perhaps this just means New Yorkers are seeking our porn directly from the source? Either way, watch what makes you happy and pay for it.