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Marxist philosophy tells us that when we look at anything, we should look at the essence through the phenomenon. The pursuit of essence is more meaningful, and it is unwise to be deceived by appearances.
Everyone has a curiosity about essence at the beginning of life, and human beings are eager for knowledge, for what everything about this world is born from.
The theme of this article is the relationship between body and spirit. A complete, independently conscious person is composed of two parts, body and spirit, and the body and spirit complement each other.
The mind controls the body, and the body expresses the spirit. And human reactions to the body carry the most secret and persistent secrets in their hearts.
"Fetishism" is a secret and persistent secret. "Fetishism" generally refers to the individual's unreasonably loving and attachment to something, some people are right about things and things, and some people are about a certain part of the individual's body.
A body part can provoke an individual's sexual desires, which is called "sexual shift" in psychology.
The famous social psychologist Justin Lammiller concluded through the study, induction and summary of a large number of data that seventy percent of people, at a certain period of time, will have sexual fantasies about the feet, and people who continue this sexual fantasy are "foot fetishes".
However, psychologists point out that people with this special attachment to parts of the human body are most likely people with underlying mental illness.
The results of a study show that among the various and complex sexual fetishes of human beings, about 33% of them have special attachment to the human body, of which the number of "foot fetishes" is the highest, accounting for 74%, accounting for half of all sexual fetishes.
Not only that, but in the UK, foot fetishes are known as the sixth most popular sexual fetish.
Such a huge number, while shocking people, has also caused most people to think, why do people have such a strong fascination with the feet?
After a series of studies, psychiatrists have found that the reason why many people have a special attachment to the foot is because the brain nerve region in charge of the foot is adjacent to the brain nerve region that manages the reproductive system, and the individual may cause subtle confusion between the two brain nerve regions due to certain special experiences in the process of growth and development, so that the individual has a "sexual illusion".
In other words, "foot fetishism" is usually acquired, and no one is born with a special attachment to the foot.
Sexual psychologists have published their conversations with nearly 200 foot fetishes in the Journal of Sexual Studies. Nearly half of them mentioned the first time they developed a special affection for their feet, and without exception, their special attachment to their feet was during childhood, due to contact with their parents.
Some people sleep at their parents' feet often as children, while others do so because their parents always teased them with their feet during their childhood.
These experiences have left these people's brains with deep traces of the feet, so that when they reach adulthood, they can't stop wanting to be satisfied with the feet.
This phenomenon is called "imprinting" by psychologists, when an individual at a certain stage of growth has a special impression of certain behaviors or things, this impression will always run through his lifelong cognition, and it is difficult to change it after formation.
In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, it is mentioned that if sexual fantasies and sexual impulses or even sexual behaviors generated for certain specific items cause clinical pain, or cause the person's life to be unable to function properly, it is very likely that the person may suffer from mental illness.
For example, some fetish people will not be able to accept themselves after making it clear that they have such a special sexual fetish, and they will not be able to admit themselves psychologically, thinking that they are perverts, and over time it will cause excessive psychological pressure.
Living in mental torture for a long time is likely to trigger mental illness or even suicidal behavior in individuals.
In fact, fetishism itself is not a mental illness, but due to the influence of the social environment or because of reasons that are unacceptable to themselves, there is a high probability that long-term internal pressure will be transformed into mental illness, so we call fetishes a potential mental illness patient.
In the end, it is actually a problem of cognition, which can lead to this situation when individuals do not have a correct understanding of fetishes.
In fact, it is not just fetish, anyone who suffers from long-term mental torture and bears excessive psychological pressure will have mental problems.
If individuals can understand the nature of fetishism more carefully, and can give more understanding, more tolerance, and more acceptance to fetish people, there will be no tragedies that could have been avoided.
Fetishism is not shameful, shame on those who violate others because of fetishism.
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参考资料：Vogel, D. L., & Wester, S. R. (2003). To seek help or not to seek help: The risks of self-disclosure. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 50(3), 351.