What Your Fetish Says About You

In 2015 a man was caught having sex with a tractor turns out he'd had sex with 450 tractors and his personal computer was found with hundreds of images of tractor fetish porn I mean I can't blame him we've all seen cars scientists have recently been studying fetishes in very unique ways to try and understand if there are physical changes in the brains of those with fetishes like if you don't have a fetish is your brain different than those who do and trying to figure out how it might relate to the algorithms made by tech companies which are potentially now controlling your sexual urges any form of sexual arousal whether it involves a fetish or not follows four physiological Steps step one neuronal processing of information by the brain leading to step two arousal neuronal excitation in your body that may cause you to sweat be on high alert and in some instances get hard nipples step 3 incentive motivation consciously or subconsciously deciding if you are going to continue your excited state and step 4 General response we're talking boners we're talking engorged labia you know what I mean that was a scientific explanation of getting turned on and what turns you on will vary from person to person and sometimes involves a fetish which is when the sexual arousal process begins due to neuronal processing of a non-genital body part or inanimate object for example being attracted to an inanimate object like a tractor.

Being attracted to a non-genital body part like feet (foot fetish) one study relying only on observational data try to explain why people were so attracted to armpits (armpit fetish) and they hypothesize it's because armpits mimic genitals armpits like genitals are covered in coarse hair excrete secretions and odors so although technically armpits are a non-genital body part it may be a common fetish because your brain kind of thinks of the armpit as a genital now that academic text feels like a mandatory reading for all University students am I right a variety of studies from the 90s tried to claim that radishes were more common in men than in women but recent surveys have found no statistically significant difference between the number of males or females or anything in between who have fetishes but algorithms and tech companies may be impacting this more on than later one thing that still holds up to academic scrutiny is that the most common fetishes involve your feet a 2007 study of 5 000 people found feet or objects related to feet such as shoes to be the most common fetish and another study of thousands of people found that two-thirds of fetishes relate to Feet socks or shoes the reason foot fetishes are so common is actually a hot debate within the scientific Community one Theory involves your S1 brain touch map the brain folds in your brain right under your skull scene here is where neurons conglomerate to process the feelings of touch you'll notice that the neurons that detect touch for toes and feet are physically right beside the neurons that detect touch for your genitals for this reason some neuroscientists posit that the physiological overlap in the S1 touch brain map neurons of defeat and genitals maybe why so many people are turned on by both another study on amputees who lost their feet found that they would feel Phantom sexual pleasure in their missing feet sometimes even feeling orgasms from their missing feet one theory is that after amputation the brain's plasticity and rewiring in the S1 touch brain map with overlapping neurons in foot and genital portions of the brain lobe made the missing feet feel sexual there are also some other competing ideas around this including some evolutionary biologists thinking that deriving pleasure from having your feet touched might encourage you to keep them clean and free from parasites essentially sexual pleasure from feet was maybe evolved to keep you healthy by increasing hygiene around your feet I really hope that when I die I come back as an evolutionary biologist who studies how horny humans are none of these theories are rooted in fact it's scientists positing hypothesis around why we're so turned on by feet and it's leading us to understand that fetishes are very complicated and really hard to study.