Medical fetish... A 'third' kind of sex? Your thoughts?

For several years, I have thought of medical fetish as a 'third' kind of sex. First, there is solitary sex - solo masturbation. Then, there's sex with partners. Third, medical fetish, because it's really sexually based - exposing and 'examining' another person's genital area - and it's usually done for sexual pleasure and enjoyment, for both the 'doctor and 'patient', whether the enjoyment is overt or covert.

I always felt at way about S&M, and that MedFet was a branch of S&M or D&S.

I have to agree with both of you on this one.

Rennie, you have hit most of us right between the eyes, so to speak. 😁

When I stand back and look at med fet I come to the same conclusion as well.

I agree, and I think it is a refinement of BDSM. As a patient, it is all about power and submission and giving over guidance of what will transpire to the doctor. Following doctor's orders. Aside from the psychology, I consider it a refinement of BDSM because it mostly dispenses with focus on anything non-genital. In broader BDSM, you could be spending a bunch of time while someone is flogging your back or some other non-genital activity. No thanks! I prefer to be spending time where it counts. Also, some of the medical devices I've seen used could be considered torture devices, but they are ever so much more sophisticated than a flogger.

I agree, however, I've known quite a few Medical Fetishists who don't like to relinquish control and want to direct play. Not my thing really, I like power exchange as part of my play.

Just a reminder that BDSM (Bondage/Discipline, Dominate/ submissive, Sadist/ Masocist) doesn't always mean floggings and pain and the such. It is a broad all-inclusive term of that style of play, if you will. It is as individual as those who choose to participate and can be styled in any direction that the participants wish to take it.

Yes, discipline (spanking, restraining, flogging, various stylized torments) is part of the picture and yet it can be so much more than just a playtime thing. So taking it to a much greater degree than I do, and I've witnessed such things, it is just not my style.

If I were a multimillionaire, then possibly, but I'm not, so we are a great deal toned down compared to some of the stories on this site as well.

Oh, c'mon! It's not a sex at all. It's a mental desease but I don't shy to tell that I'm ill too.

Medical fetish is a mental disease? Lol! Wow... I wonder how long it will take for them to publish THIS - maybe in DSM-XIX? LMAO!! (For those of you who don't know, DSM-IV-TR [pronounced dee ess em four tee are] is the current version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It is published by The American Psychiatric Association and is the "standard" of the American "psychiatry business".)

I'd consider a medical fetish as a cross between mutual masturbation and a form of submissive/domination role-playing.

And even if you don't engage in mutual play with a partner and only fantasize and/or use instruments on yourself in any way (like taking your own rec temp, blood pressure etc) I would still consider it a form of masturbation. Or that is what i tell myself in any case ... ha ha.