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Fur fetishism

Fur fetishism is the name popularly used to describe a fetishistic attraction to people wearing fur, or in certain cases, to the garments themselves.

One reason why fur may be fetishized is perhaps that the garment forms a "second skin" that acts as a fetishistic surrogate for the wearer's own skin. This is heightened by the fact that the fur was originally an animal's skin and hair. Fur fetishists also refer to fur being "very soft and sensuous," and to the "tickling sensations" that the touch of fur creates against their skin, especially on sensitive parts.

An early, and probably the most famous, documented examples of fur fetishism was the case of the eponymic Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, both in his real life, and in his semi-autobiographical novel "Venus in Furs" ("Venus im Pelz").

See also

• Leather fetishism
• Fursuit

• A fur appreciator writes about himself
• Fetishistic images of fully-dressed women wearing fur clothing
• Article discussing, among other things, why a fur-wearing prostitute is seen as normal, when a fur-wearing nun would not

(This entry in the BDSM Dictionary incorporates text from the Fur fetishism article in Wipipedia.)

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