Inside the World of Medical Fetishism

Interesting articles about medical fetish with a lot of different preferences:

https://www.papermag.com/medical-fetishism#rebelltitem1

https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a37500323/medical-fetishism/

Speaking for myself, I found these articles really disappointing. I was so excited when I saw that there were actually articles on this subject! The problem is, they represent the predominant cultural notion of medical fetishism as seemingly deviant and rooted largely in the BDSM aesthetic. It’s not that that’s inaccurate, it’s just very narrowly focused and doesn't do anything to broaden understanding. Because this notion persists, it never occurred to me over the last forty years to explore medical fetishism to try and satisfy my own interests, which are very much rooted in realistic play and have absolutely nothing to do with sex. “Medical fetishism?” I’d think, “well that’s about porn. That’s not what this is.”

I stumbled upon Zity completely by accident, and learned not just how broad a continuum medfet interests lie on, but also how many of “my people” inhabit it. Validation! Vindication! Why doesn’t anybody else know this? More recently, I've confided in two or three “outsiders,” and tried to explain my interests to them. It’s not an easy thing to explain in a meaningful way to someone who doesn’t get it. Wouldn’t it be great if there was an article I could hand them that would make sense of it? I’d write it, except that I’m not ready to come out.

Why doesn’t anybody else know this?

Sometimes its better for certain tastes and affectations, or in this case sexual activities and proclivities, to remain amongst those who are truly into it. Once gossipy journalists and social researchers get interested, then all kinds of less than savory or just plain stupid people think they are interested as well and all they do is end up muddying the waters and giving medfet a bad name.

As a kid I learned: when having fun, never attract the attention of grown-ups. the same goes here, but substitute grown-ups with 'the outside world'.

As a kid I learned: when having fun, never attract the attention of grown-ups. the same goes here, but substitute grown-ups with 'the outside world'.

Never articulated that, but it is absolutely what I learned. It seemed (to me at the time) parents found something wrong or negative about anything I liked!

Mainstream depictions of anything remotely kinky are always negative or wind up with bad things happening to the practitioners. The American TV show CSI was famous for that. They’d have something kinky and that person was either the killer or a victim

I’d write it, except that I’m not ready to come out.

Maybe you could write it under a different name?

@Nurse_Phillips Wasn't there a rule, in the old days in US cinema (think Hays Code), that if a movie or play depicted a homosexual person then that person had to be a tragic character and certainly not appear to live normally, happily?

Remember the 'scientific' articles by Dr. Denko on the 'Cult of the Enema'? She thought 'she'd discovered' an especially weird paraphilia and did her best to write it up according to the rules of published academia but in so utterly disapproving a fashion and giving everything to do with a predilection to enemas an unsavory aspect, like when writing about alcoholism or a gambling addiction. She liked to add case studies that ended in tragedy for practitioners of enemas.

Luckily her papers never caught on in the world of academic sexual research, otherwise members here would have been analyzed to death by now and every unsavory incident ever connected to enemas and medfet looked upon with (sneering) disapproval and righteous moral indignation.

Besides as anyone with half an eye on the news can see, even though gay sex is now no longer illegal, there are many groups and organizations who are doing their best to revert back to the old ways when it was illegal and usually kept in the closet. Oh how they pine for the good ol' days.

So, it is always best not to attract attention to our little area of sexual fun. You have no notion at all of how much negative feelings and media upset and frenzies this being widely known might well cause. Transgender people having to take a leak seemed to cause half a nation to loose it's collective sanity.

Imagine if those same kind of religious morality nuts got it into heads how unnatural and filthy medfet was.

@gracier, you're absolutely right about the dangers of trying to enlighten people only to have them distort what you've offered. I suppose my comment was written more from the perspective of someone who would've found an article like the one I describe incredibly validating and helpful. I'm not sure it's such a good idea for USA Today to be featuring the various shades of medical fetishism, but even in this forum, which I've round very rich, the interest in medical play of a non-sexual nature wasn't exactly easy to find. I had to go looking for it.

@agracier And if some politician stirs up a moral panic you may become toast

And if some politician stirs up a moral panic you may become toast

And lest I forget, a public prosecutor or someone from law enforcement wishing to make a name for themselves ... the hypocritic creeps ...

@agracier They need an incrimination, though.