1) Strabismusophilia
The name of this particular fetish, which is admittedly rare, was coined by Dr. Mark Griffiths for his blog, where he discusses the psychology of paraphilia. (While Griffiths is a professor of gambling studies, his amateur musing on fetishes is well-researched and interesting.) Strabismus is the condition of having misaligned eyes, and thus strabismusophilia is an attraction to people who are cross-eyed. What makes this interesting is some that this attraction actually led to some of the earliest musings related to paraphilias.French philosopher Rene Descartes had an attraction to cross-eyed women, which apparently began with a childhood infatuation with a girl who was mildly cross-eyed. While at the time, he loved her in her entirety, later in life, he found himself more attracted to other women with the same condition, though it took him a while to put two and two together.
On one occasion, Queen Christina of Sweden asked the philosopher what causes people to love one person more than another before they know anything about their relative merits. According to a 2011 paper by Alex Voorhoeve: Descartes replied that when we experience a strong sensation, this causes the brain to crease like a piece of paper. And when the stimulus stops, the brain uncreases, but it stays ready to be creased again in the same way. And when a similar stimulus is presented, then we get the same response, because the brain is ready to crease again. And what did he mean by all this? Well, he gave an example. He said that all his life he had had a fetish for cross-eyed women. Whenever he came across a cross-eyed woman, desire would enflame him.
And he figured out after introspection, that this was because his brain had been strongly creased by his first childhood love, who was cross-eyed.This is very similar to the Pavlovian concept of conditioning as an explanation for the rise of s3xual fetishes. While strabismusophilia may not be so common, other eye-related paraphilias (oculophilias) have been documented, such as eyeball licking. Dr. Ruth Neustifter gave an explanation for that one in an online article:Eyeballs are covered in naturally salty water used to keep them lubricated and clean, which also gives them a distinctively smooth and salty flavour.
While the eyeball doesn’t feel in the same way that our fingers and tongue do, it can sense pressure and temperature, making eyeball licking an optimal form of stimulation. Pretty much everyone recognizes the eye as a vulnerable area of the body, making it an intimate area for some people. Where there is vulnerability and intimacy, you might just find eroticism! Some folks enjoy doing the licking, both for the sensation and for the ability to enjoy their partner’s vulnerability in this way. And for those who like to be licked, they find the situation as well as the physical stimulation to be highly enjoyable. This isn’t a universal erogenous zone, so many folks won’t get the attraction even if they try it.
The name of this particular fetish, which is admittedly rare, was coined by Dr. Mark Griffiths for his blog, where he discusses the psychology of paraphilia. (While Griffiths is a professor of gambling studies, his amateur musing on fetishes is well-researched and interesting.) Strabismus is the condition of having misaligned eyes, and thus strabismusophilia is an attraction to people who are cross-eyed. What makes this interesting is some that this attraction actually led to some of the earliest musings related to paraphilias.French philosopher Rene Descartes had an attraction to cross-eyed women, which apparently began with a childhood infatuation with a girl who was mildly cross-eyed. While at the time, he loved her in her entirety, later in life, he found himself more attracted to other women with the same condition, though it took him a while to put two and two together.
On one occasion, Queen Christina of Sweden asked the philosopher what causes people to love one person more than another before they know anything about their relative merits. According to a 2011 paper by Alex Voorhoeve: Descartes replied that when we experience a strong sensation, this causes the brain to crease like a piece of paper. And when the stimulus stops, the brain uncreases, but it stays ready to be creased again in the same way. And when a similar stimulus is presented, then we get the same response, because the brain is ready to crease again. And what did he mean by all this? Well, he gave an example. He said that all his life he had had a fetish for cross-eyed women. Whenever he came across a cross-eyed woman, desire would enflame him.
And he figured out after introspection, that this was because his brain had been strongly creased by his first childhood love, who was cross-eyed.This is very similar to the Pavlovian concept of conditioning as an explanation for the rise of s3xual fetishes. While strabismusophilia may not be so common, other eye-related paraphilias (oculophilias) have been documented, such as eyeball licking. Dr. Ruth Neustifter gave an explanation for that one in an online article:Eyeballs are covered in naturally salty water used to keep them lubricated and clean, which also gives them a distinctively smooth and salty flavour.
While the eyeball doesn’t feel in the same way that our fingers and tongue do, it can sense pressure and temperature, making eyeball licking an optimal form of stimulation. Pretty much everyone recognizes the eye as a vulnerable area of the body, making it an intimate area for some people. Where there is vulnerability and intimacy, you might just find eroticism! Some folks enjoy doing the licking, both for the sensation and for the ability to enjoy their partner’s vulnerability in this way. And for those who like to be licked, they find the situation as well as the physical stimulation to be highly enjoyable. This isn’t a universal erogenous zone, so many folks won’t get the attraction even if they try it.
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