Experts weigh in on whether mental illness is involved when people have fetishes such as bondage, obsession with feet, or adult diapers.
Some people become sexually aroused by an object or part of the body that’s not typically considered sexual, such as feet or hair.
Others may develop a liking for a particular lifestyle that allows them to live out their fetish or interest in erotic role-playing, such as bondage, dominance, submission, and sadomasochism (BDSM). Think “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
Fetishes and alternative erotic lifestyles come in a wide variety of forms, from common to extreme.