William James
"A social organism of any sort whatever, large or small, is what it is because each member proceeds to his own duty with a trust that the other members will simulatneously do theirs."
William James
So what does the dicipline of philosophy have to say about sexual fetishes? Well, not a lot really.
Socrates, credited by history as being the father of philosophy as we know it, told the ancient Athenians during his trial that he did the things he did because "the unexamined life is not worth living." This website is nothing if not an examination of the WAM life. Pehaps we should say that the unexamined fetish is not worth fetishing?
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