Fetish Quote by Philippe Lejeune

“The fetish is an object that commands an emotional response and that makes us breathe life into it. Because it is an object we…

— Robert Greene

“There is no more unhappy being under the sun than a fetishist who pines for a boot and has to content himself with an…

— Karl Kraus

A fetish is a story masquerading as an object.

— Robert Stoller

“However, in fetishism the desired object is displaced; and in this context (“The Apparition” by Guy De Maupassant) it is the desiring object, so…

— Philippe Lejeune

“You know that I've always been proud of the way nature singled me out. It's the people who have been deformed by society that…

— Tom Robbins

“But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb to the…

— Audre Lorde

One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.

— Mason Cooley

Fetish is a straight-up sex song.

— Joan Jett

“Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have.”

— John Steinbeck

“Sexuality should not be seen as dualistic – all good or all bad – but as a good part of our created nature that…

— David Kinnaman

“There is no shame in it, becoming what your nature says you must be.”

— Craig Johnson

“I know...but just the same" – this is Octave Mannoni's formulation of the structure of the fetish, and more generally of fetishistic thinking. The…

— Janet Beizer