The pantyhose fetish involves sexual arousal by looking at, wearing or interacting with (touching, smelling, ripping) pantyhose.

The fetish world may loiter on the fringe of so-called normal but there's a plethora of books on the subject.

Amputee fetishism, or Acrotomophilia, is the desire for one's partner to be an amputee.

A strong, sometimes erotic attraction to stuffed animals and/or cartoon characters.

Much like the robot fetish, statuephilia, or the erotic desire for statues, mannequins or dolls, is tied to the ancient Greek Pygmalion myth.

An erotic fixation with feet, often involving licking, smelling, touching, tickling, worshipping and using the feet to stimulate a partner.

This fetish is held mostly by males and involves sexual stimulation from the sight, touch and smell of armpits.

The medical fetish is a more adult version of the innocent sexual exploration involved in playing doctor as children.

Known as coulrophilia, a clown fetish is an erotic attraction to clowns. It is also slangily dubbed Bozophilia.

This fetish involves the act of blowing up and sometimes popping latex balloons. Many see it as a subset of the latex fetish.

The mask fetish involves people who like to wear or interact with those wearing masks.

Pony play is a form role-playing that involves a partner acting out the mannerisms and sounds of a horse.

People with a robot fetish are sometimes called technosexuals. They are aroused by the idea of sex with, or turning into, a robot.

At first blush, being a fetish photographer sounds like World's Hottest Job.

It's sometimes referred to as The Lifestyle and while it has roots in ancient history, it has changed dramatically over the centuries.

Those with a smoking fetish are sexually aroused by the sight of someone smoking.

You've seen conventions for hardware manufacturers, science fiction enthusiasts, home builders, and automotive parts suppliers.

It's no surprise that fetish wear like rubber/PVC and bondage gear has wormed its way into haute couture collections trumpeted by Vogue, In Style and the like.

Mostly (although not exclusively) men, those with a fingernail fetish get sexual stimulation from long and/or painted fingernails.

Given the gratuitous sex speckled across mainstream movies, you'd think scenes depicting fetishes would have elbowed their way to the forefront if only by attrition.

While being bi-curious is certainly not a fetish, it's recently been a popular topic of many debates relating to sexuality, so we thought we'd weigh in with a brief run-down of the discussion as it stands.

Like many other sub-cultures, the fetish world has its own star system, and many of these stars have crossed over into the mainstream.

The PVC/Rubber fetish involves sexual attraction to people wearing latex, rubber, or PVC (short for 'polyvinyl chloride') clothing, usually jet black in color.

Erotic spanking is a common sexual occurrence both within and outside of the BDSM (catchall for Bondage/Discipline, Domination/Submission, Sadism/Masochism) scene.

Bondage is a popular form of fetish that spans both genders and all sexual orientations.