My qualitative research instructors at Arizona State University: T0111 Barone, Mary Lee Smith, and Amira De la Garza, for introducing me to the methods and literature of qualitative inquiry;
INTRODUCTION. Fetishistic disorder is one of the numerous forms of sexual disorders classified as paraphilias. Fetishistic disorder is characterized by a distressing and persistent pattern of sexual arousal involving the use of nonliving objects or specific, nongenital body parts.his topic addresses the epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical characteristics, course, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of fetishistic disorder. Evaluation and management of other sexual and gender identity disorders are discussed separately.
Such individuals could be considered as having a fetish but not fetishistic disorder. A diagnosis of fetishistic disorder requires clinically significant distress or impairment in functioning resulting from the fetish.n individual with a fetish for a body part (e.g., feet, hair) will focus primarily on the eroticizes non-genital body part during sexual encounter. It is not uncommon for sexualized fetishes to include both inanimate objects and body parts (e.g., dirty socks with feet).