Olfactory fetishism

Smelling worn underpants is a classic form of olfactophilia

Smell fetishism or olfactophilia (Latin olfacere - "smell" and Greek philos - the friend) is a sexual deviance in which the sexual arousal can be caused by olfactory sensations of - widely unpleasant - body odors. The most common olfactory practices include smelling on feet, worn socks, shoes, or used underwear . In the context of sexual medical diagnostics or psychoanalysis, however, such behavior is only understood as a disorder in need of treatment if the fetish serves as a complete substitute for sexual partnership, sexual satisfaction is difficult or appears impossible without the use of the fetish and a corresponding one for the person concerned Suffering pressure arises.

The demarcation from quasi-fetishistic behaviors is difficult, for example smelling the partner's underwear in order to be able to better imagine them during masturbation ( pars pro toto ), is not necessarily assigned to olfactophilia, but can be an expression of the latent tendency to odor fetishism be.

Mysophilia (Greek μύσος músos, “unclean, dirty”) is a sexual preference in which sexual arousal is achieved through sensations of smell or taste that are generally regarded as unpleasant.

Cultural appearance

Historical anecdotes

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe confessed to having stolen one of her bodices from Mrs. Charlotte von Stein , his lover between 1775 and 1788, so that he could smell it as the mood took them.
• Napoléon Bonaparte is said to have written Joséphine the words “Don't wash anymore, I'll be back soon” ( “Ne te lave pas, je reviens” ) during his Egyptian expedition .

Modern forms

• Sex shops offer partially worn underwear, and in addition, used underwear, worn stockings, nylons, socks and shoes are offered for sale on the Internet by individual suppliers and specialized online mail order companies.
• Specialized online portals on which women can offer their own used underwear and other olfactory fetish articles have existed since 2005. This trend originated in the United States of America.
• In Japan in 1993 an attempt was made to set up vending machines for worn underwear (mainly girls' panties), but the operators were arrested for violating the law and the machines were dismantled. Since then there have been reports of sightings of such “girls' pantyhose machines” in Japan.
• Nowadays, customers and providers of worn underwear mostly come together in specially designed social networks. The largest German-speaking network "Crazyslip" has existed since 2005 and, according to the operator, has around 200,000 members.

See also

• Plead
• Vomeronasal organ (Jacobson organ)
• Pheromone
• Sixty-nine
• Facesitting
• ReviseF65

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus M. Beier, Hartmut AG Bosinski, Kurt Loewit: Sexualmedizin. Elsevier GmbH, 2005, ISBN 3-437-22850-1 , p. 494.
2. ↑ Katarina Bobkova, AK Ludwig, A. Münch: Sexual Medical Diagnostics. GRIN Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-638-66280-2 , p. 6.
3. ↑ University of Bremen - Ingelore Ebberfeld: Sexual body odors between attraction and repulsion 2000, archived from the original, accessed on November 1, 2018
4. ↑ Report on the Japanese underwear machines snopes.com (English)
5. ↑ Quirky Japan: Slips from the automatic machine focus.de, 2014, accessed on November 1, 2018