Don't Be Ashamed of Your Fetish
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Happily I’ve been blest with a total lack of sexual guilt. My fetishes and kinks give me joy not stress. I can’t imagine placing myself at the mercy of some supposed healer of the mine like this poor foot fetishist:
Or perhaps it is merely medical authority that defines disease. In Bergner’s deft sketches, the doctors he interviews seem as narrowly absorbed as their subjects. Of Berlin, who suppressed Jacob’s foot fetish with libido-squelching drugs, Bergner writes, “[I]t sometimes seemed he was driven, consciously or not, to medicate aberrant lust out of Jacob’s life.”
From a review of The Other Side of Desire by Daniel Bergner What idiosyncratic lust can, and can’t, tell us
Hopefully the day will come when people with atypical sexuality will stop letting the plain majority and narrow physicians determine the quality of their erotic experiences and damage their self-regard.