What sexuality do you classify someone with a fetish as?

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O.o this question is baffling me... how could a fetish effect one's sexuality? Do you even know what sex is?

And I'm pretty sure google could tell you what an aphrodesiac is no problem, though the fact that you're mixing up those two things hurts my brain.

Uh, it depends on their sexual orientation, which isn't directly related to their fetishes.

An aphrodisiac is something that gets you in the mood for what you like to do, and a fetish is the thing you like to do.

This just doesn't make much sense at all. You're confused and it seems to be contagious. Temporarily I hope.

Aphrodisiac comes from the name of the Greek goddess of sexuality, Aphrodite. Fetish comes from Portueguese fetico, "charm, sorcery" earlier feitico, "made artfully, artificial" French: fétiche >>Latin facticius (“artificial”) and facere ("to make").

I'm guessing you mean people who only drive pleasure if their fetish is present?

"Paraphilia" is the term used to describe attraction to, amongst other things, non-human objects, like glasses or fire or stuffed animals or trousers. You could call someone who's fetish meant the were attracted to something that wasn't an object a "paraphile".

As for fetishes to do with certain human body parts, like feet or nostrils, I really have no idea what the term is, or if there is a term :P However, I think most people who are attracted to those things are selective when it comes to the gender of the body attached to them (in which case you'd call them homo/hetro/bi etc. -sexual), and the ones who aren't probably think of those body parts as separate from the human, in which case you'd call the paraphiles. I'm not sure about that last bit though :P

My fiance has sexy feet but i like her whole body so... Not too sure.
I think this is a great question.

I disagree categorically with some of the comments about fetishes being separate from age and gender. The example given was that a person with a foot fetish is turned on by all feet, regardless of the age or gender of the foot.

Ok, maybe some people might fit that description, but not all. Other foot fetishists might have very specific interests regarding age and/or gender, and may be disinterested (or outright disgusted by) a foot that doesn't fit their fetish. For example, a man who is turned on by a young woman's feet might be very turned off by old-man feet.

I use foot fetish because that's the example given above and repeated often, but I think this holds true with any fetish, be it leather, BDSM, outdoors, voyeur, panties, hair color, or whatever floats your boat. There's a whole world of fetishists out there, and not all of them are dis-interested in age and gender to the exclusion of the fetish. IMHO. YMMV.

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Well as I am into animals and plushies I can say for the plushies I'm straight but because I add a personality to them to either being male or female... I don't know how it is for people being into other objects... maybe they "give" them a gender aswell...

But it may also be another category because that wouldn't fit into any of the common categories...

Dude, you can have a foot fetish and still be attracted to people, I don't see what your getting at.

Now if your question was something along the lines of, if you had a tranny fetish or some shit, then sexuality might come into play.

i love knickers does that make me strange?

I've been on BDSM sites and a few of them considered themselves to be "alternative sexuality". A fetish does have an effect on what turns you on, buy sexuality wise I'm sure a person could still qualify under the list you put. For instance, you could have a latex fetish and be straight or you could have a pain fetish and be bisexual. (I hope that makes sense) Really, it depends on the person.