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| {{Short description|Sexual attraction to hair}} | |||
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| ⚫ | '''Hair fetishism''', also known as '''hair partialism''' and '''trichophilia''', is a ] in which a person sees hair{{snd}} most commonly, |
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| ⚫ | '''Hair fetishism''', also known as '''hair partialism''' and '''trichophilia''', is a ] in which a person sees ]{{snd}} most commonly, head hair{{snd}} as particularly ] and ].<ref name="Althof2010">{{cite book |author=Stanley E. Althof |title=Handbook of Clinical Sexuality for Mental Health Professionals |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZmtyfnZvdFwC&pg=PA408 |date=14 January 2010 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-415-80075-4 |pages=408}}</ref> Arousal may occur from seeing or touching hair, whether head hair, ], ] or ]. Head-hair arousal may come from seeing or touching very ] or ], wet hair, certain colors of hair or a particular hairstyle.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021|reason=Statement lacking of source}} | ||
| '''Haircut fetishism''' is a related ] in which a person is aroused by having their head hair cut or shaved, by cutting the hair of another, by watching someone get a haircut, or by seeing someone with a shaved head or very short hair. | '''Haircut fetishism''' is a related ] in which a person is aroused by having their head hair cut or shaved, by cutting the hair of another, by watching someone get a haircut, or by seeing someone with a shaved head or very short hair. | ||
| '''Bald fetishism''' is a related paraphilia regarding sexual attraction to genetic ], such as bald spots, receding hairlines, and/or ]; or attraction to possessing these traits. This may involve voluntary ] of the scalp. | |||
| ==Etymology == | ==Etymology == | ||
| The word trichophilia comes from the ] ''"tricha-"'' (τρίχα), which means hair, and the suffix ''"-philia"'' (φιλία), which means love. | |||
| ==Characteristics== | ==Characteristics== | ||
| Hair is one of the defining characteristics of ]s. In humans, hair can be ], facial hair, ], ], ], besides other places. Men tend to have hair in more places than women. Hair does not in itself have any intrinsic sexual value other than the attributes given to it by individuals in a cultural context. Some cultures are ambivalent in relation to body hair, with some being regarded as attractive while others being regarded as unaesthetic. Many cultures regard a woman's hair to be erotic. For example, many |
Hair is one of the defining characteristics of ]s. In humans, hair can be ], facial hair, ], ], ], besides other places. Men tend to have hair in more places than women. Hair does not in itself have any intrinsic sexual value other than the attributes given to it by individuals in a cultural context. Some cultures are ambivalent in relation to body hair, with some being regarded as attractive while others being regarded as unaesthetic. Many cultures regard a woman's hair to be erotic. For example, many Muslim women cover their hair in public, and display it only to their family and close friends.<ref name="sherrow2">{{cite book|last=Sherrow|first=Victoria|title=Encyclopedia of hair: a cultural history|year=2006|publisher=Greenwood|isbn=0-313-33145-6|page=|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofha0000sher/page/2}}</ref> Similarly, many Jewish women cover their hair after marriage. During the Middle Ages, European women were expected to cover their hair after they married, and according to the New Testament, a Christian woman should cover her head while in a church or in prayer. | ||
| Even in cultures where women do not customarily cover their hair, the erotic significance of hair is recognised. Some hair styles are culturally associated with a particular gender, with short head hair styles and baldness being associated with men and longer hair styles with women and girls, even though there are many ] such as ] men, and also depictions of men in art throughout history, |
Even in cultures where women do not customarily cover their hair, the erotic significance of hair is recognised. Some hair styles are culturally associated with a particular gender, with short head hair styles and baldness being associated with men and longer hair styles with women and girls, even though there are many ] such as ] men, and also depictions of men in art throughout history, such as ]. In the case of women especially, head hair has been presented in art and literature as a feature of beauty, vanity and eroticism. Hair has a very important role in the canons of beauty in different regions of the world, and healthy combed hair has two important functions, beauty and fashion. In those cultures, considerable time and expense is put into the attractive presentation of hair and, in some cases, to the removal of culturally unwanted hair. In historical Indian tradition, women have been expected to maintain long hair — customarily tied out of the way, for the sake of practicality and the appearance of neatness — and have been strongly discouraged from cutting it. | ||
| Hair fetishism manifests itself in a variety of behaviors. A fetishist may enjoy seeing or touching hair, pulling on or cutting the hair of another person.<ref name="HooperPublishing2002">{{cite book|author1=Anne Hooper|author2=DK Publishing|title=Sexopedia|url= |
Hair fetishism manifests itself in a variety of behaviors. A fetishist may enjoy seeing or touching hair, pulling on or cutting the hair of another person.<ref name="HooperPublishing2002">{{cite book|author1=Anne Hooper|author2=DK Publishing|title=Sexopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=egIL8hMUJVsC&pg=PA155|year=2002|publisher=Penguin|isbn=978-0-7566-63520|page=155}}</ref> Besides enjoyment they may become sexually aroused from such activities. It may also be described as an obsession, as in the case of hair washing or dread of losing hair. Arousal by head hair may arise from seeing or touching very ] or short hair, wet hair, a certain color of hair or a particular hairstyle. Others may find the attraction of literally "having sex with somebody's hair" as a fantasy or fetish.<ref name="Parfitt">{{cite journal |last1=Parfitt |first1=Anthony |year=2007 |title=Fetishism, Transgenderism, and the Concept of 'Castration'. |journal=] |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=61–89 |doi=10.1080/02668730601181119|s2cid=145772674 }}{{subscription required}}</ref> The fetish affects both men and women. | ||
| Some people feel pleasure when their hair is being cut or groomed. This is because they produce ] giving them a feeling which is similar to that of a head ], laughter, or caress.<ref name="VolkSagan2009">{{cite book|author1=Tyler Volk|author2=Dorion Sagan|title=Death/Sex|url= |
Some people feel pleasure when their hair is being cut or groomed. This is because they produce ] giving them a feeling which is similar to that of a head ], laughter, or caress.<ref name="VolkSagan2009">{{cite book|author1=Tyler Volk|author2=Dorion Sagan|title=Death/Sex|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kuNW3IawaikC&pg=RA1-PA27|date=October 2009|publisher=Chelsea Green Publishing|isbn=978-1-60358-143-1|page=27}}</ref> On the other hand, many people feel some level of anxiety when their head hair is being cut.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}} ] stated that cutting woman's long hair by men may represent a fear and/or concept of ], meaning that a woman's long hair represents a figurative ] and that by cutting off her hair a man may feel dominance<ref name="Parfitt"/> as castrator, not the castrated one (while paradoxically also being reassured by the fact that the hair will grow again).<ref>], ''The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis'' (1946) p. 349</ref> | ||
| Trichophilia may present with different excitation sources, the most common, but not the only one, being human head hair. Trichophilia may also involve facial hair, chest hair, pubic hair, armpit hair and animal fur. The excitation can arise from the texture, color, hairstyle and hair length. Among the most common variants of this paraphilia are excitation by long hair and short hair, the excitement of blonde hair (blonde fetishism) and red hair (redhead fetishism) and the excitement of the different textures of hair (straight, curly, wavy, etc.). Trichophilia can relate to the excitement that is caused by plucking or pulling hair or body hair. | |||
| Trichophilia is considered a paraphilia which is usually inoffensive.<ref>''Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5'', Havellock Ellis, 2004 </ref> | |||
| ==Prevalence== | ==Prevalence== | ||
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| In order to determine the relative prevalence of different fetishes, scientists obtained a sample of at least 5000 individuals worldwide, in 2007, from 381 Internet discussion groups. The relative prevalences were estimated based on (a) the number of groups devoted to a particular fetish, (b) the number of individuals participating in the groups and (c) the number of messages exchanged. Of the sampled population, 7 percent were |
In order to determine the relative prevalence of different fetishes, scientists obtained a sample of at least 5000 individuals worldwide, in 2007, from 381 Internet discussion groups. The relative prevalences were estimated based on (a) the number of groups devoted to a particular fetish, (b) the number of individuals participating in the groups and (c) the number of messages exchanged. Of the sampled population, 7 percent were sexually aroused by hair (as opposed to 12 for underwear, but only 4 for genitals, 3 for breasts, 2 for buttocks, and less than one for body hair).<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Scorolli | first1 = C | last2 = Ghirlanda | first2 = S | last3 = Enquist | first3 = M | last4 = Zattoni | first4 = S|author5-link=Emmanuele A. Jannini | last5 = Jannini | first5 = E A | title = Relative prevalence of different fetishes | journal = International Journal of Impotence Research | volume = 19 | issue = 4 | pages = 432–7 | year = 2007 | pmid = 17304204 | doi = 10.1038/sj.ijir.3901547 | doi-access = }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article2303022.ece |access-date=1 February 2007 |location=London |work=The Independent |first=Roger |last=Dobson |title=Heels are the world's No 1 fetish |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080520112041/http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article2303022.ece |archive-date=20 May 2008 }}</ref> | ||
| ==History== | |||
| References to hair fetish can be found in ancient empires. In ] reference to the fetish is in the story of ], ]'s wife and goddess of fertility, who is admired for having beautiful pure gold hair.<ref> Legend of the goddess Sif, THORSHOF (www.thorshof.org)</ref> | |||
| Hair has been a symbol of beauty, vanity and eroticism. In the story of ] by the ] published in 1812, there is an analogy to the beauty of Sif's hair with the story of a young woman with blond hair who is locked in a tower room, the only way to reach her being to climb the tower using her long hair. | |||
| In religious societies like ], ] was customary and involved the cutting or shaving the hair from the scalp (while leaving some parts uncut), as a mark of purity of body. | |||
| == Notable Hair Fetishists == | |||
| ], ] of ]<ref>{{cite news|title=Brand Key tarnished by ponytail-gate|url=http://www.3news.co.nz/nznews/brand-key-tarnished-by-ponytail-gate-2015042318#axzz3YpyALOpi|accessdate=23 April 2015|work= ]|date=23 April 2015}}</ref> | |||
| {{Better source|reason=article uses passive and ambiguous language to avoid specifying who has made this diagnosis of hair fetishism|date=May 2015}} | |||
| ], Murderer in ]<ref>{{cite news|title='Killer had fetish for cutting women’s hair’, court hears|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8517516/Killer-had-fetish-for-cutting-womens-hair-court-hears.html|accessdate=23 April 2015|work= ]|date=17 May 2011}}</ref> | |||
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Hair fetishism, also known as hair partialism and trichophilia, is a partialism in which a person sees hair – most commonly, head hair – as particularly erotic and sexually arousing. Arousal may occur from seeing or touching hair, whether head hair, armpit hair, chest hair or fur. Head-hair arousal may come from seeing or touching very long or short hair, wet hair, certain colors of hair or a particular hairstyle.
Haircut fetishism is a related paraphilia in which a person is aroused by having their head hair cut or shaved, by cutting the hair of another, by watching someone get a haircut, or by seeing someone with a shaved head or very short hair.
Bald fetishism is a related paraphilia regarding sexual attraction to genetic hair loss, such as bald spots, receding hairlines, and/or male pattern baldness; or attraction to possessing these traits. This may involve voluntary epilation of the scalp.
Etymology
The word trichophilia comes from the Greek "tricha-" (τρίχα), which means hair, and the suffix "-philia" (φιλία), which means love.
Characteristics
Hair is one of the defining characteristics of mammals. In humans, hair can be scalp hair, facial hair, chest hair, pubic hair, axillary hair, besides other places. Men tend to have hair in more places than women. Hair does not in itself have any intrinsic sexual value other than the attributes given to it by individuals in a cultural context. Some cultures are ambivalent in relation to body hair, with some being regarded as attractive while others being regarded as unaesthetic. Many cultures regard a woman's hair to be erotic. For example, many Muslim women cover their hair in public, and display it only to their family and close friends. Similarly, many Jewish women cover their hair after marriage. During the Middle Ages, European women were expected to cover their hair after they married, and according to the New Testament, a Christian woman should cover her head while in a church or in prayer.
Even in cultures where women do not customarily cover their hair, the erotic significance of hair is recognised. Some hair styles are culturally associated with a particular gender, with short head hair styles and baldness being associated with men and longer hair styles with women and girls, even though there are many exceptions such as Gaelic Irish men, and also depictions of men in art throughout history, such as Jesus Christ. In the case of women especially, head hair has been presented in art and literature as a feature of beauty, vanity and eroticism. Hair has a very important role in the canons of beauty in different regions of the world, and healthy combed hair has two important functions, beauty and fashion. In those cultures, considerable time and expense is put into the attractive presentation of hair and, in some cases, to the removal of culturally unwanted hair. In historical Indian tradition, women have been expected to maintain long hair — customarily tied out of the way, for the sake of practicality and the appearance of neatness — and have been strongly discouraged from cutting it.
Hair fetishism manifests itself in a variety of behaviors. A fetishist may enjoy seeing or touching hair, pulling on or cutting the hair of another person. Besides enjoyment they may become sexually aroused from such activities. It may also be described as an obsession, as in the case of hair washing or dread of losing hair. Arousal by head hair may arise from seeing or touching very long or short hair, wet hair, a certain color of hair or a particular hairstyle. Others may find the attraction of literally "having sex with somebody's hair" as a fantasy or fetish. The fetish affects both men and women.
Some people feel pleasure when their hair is being cut or groomed. This is because they produce endorphins giving them a feeling which is similar to that of a head massage, laughter, or caress. On the other hand, many people feel some level of anxiety when their head hair is being cut. Sigmund Freud stated that cutting woman's long hair by men may represent a fear and/or concept of castration, meaning that a woman's long hair represents a figurative penis and that by cutting off her hair a man may feel dominance as castrator, not the castrated one (while paradoxically also being reassured by the fact that the hair will grow again).
Trichophilia may present with different excitation sources, the most common, but not the only one, being human head hair. Trichophilia may also involve facial hair, chest hair, pubic hair, armpit hair and animal fur. The excitation can arise from the texture, color, hairstyle and hair length. Among the most common variants of this paraphilia are excitation by long hair and short hair, the excitement of blonde hair (blonde fetishism) and red hair (redhead fetishism) and the excitement of the different textures of hair (straight, curly, wavy, etc.). Trichophilia can relate to the excitement that is caused by plucking or pulling hair or body hair.
Trichophilia is considered a paraphilia which is usually inoffensive.
Prevalence
In order to determine the relative prevalence of different fetishes, scientists obtained a sample of at least 5000 individuals worldwide, in 2007, from 381 Internet discussion groups. The relative prevalences were estimated based on (a) the number of groups devoted to a particular fetish, (b) the number of individuals participating in the groups and (c) the number of messages exchanged. Of the sampled population, 7 percent were sexually aroused by hair (as opposed to 12 for underwear, but only 4 for genitals, 3 for breasts, 2 for buttocks, and less than one for body hair).
See also
References
- Stanley E. Althof (14 January 2010). Handbook of Clinical Sexuality for Mental Health Professionals. Taylor & Francis. p. 408. ISBN 978-0-415-80075-4.
- Sherrow, Victoria (2006). Encyclopedia of hair: a cultural history. Greenwood. p. 2. ISBN 0-313-33145-6.
- Anne Hooper; DK Publishing (2002). Sexopedia. Penguin. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-7566-63520.
- ^ Parfitt, Anthony (2007). "Fetishism, Transgenderism, and the Concept of 'Castration'". Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. 21 (1): 61–89. doi:10.1080/02668730601181119. S2CID 145772674.(subscription required)
- Tyler Volk; Dorion Sagan (October 2009). Death/Sex. Chelsea Green Publishing. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-60358-143-1.
- Otto Fenichel, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (1946) p. 349
- Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5, Havellock Ellis, 2004 book link
- Scorolli, C; Ghirlanda, S; Enquist, M; Zattoni, S; Jannini, E A (2007). "Relative prevalence of different fetishes". International Journal of Impotence Research. 19 (4): 432–7. doi:10.1038/sj.ijir.3901547. PMID 17304204.
- Dobson, Roger. "Heels are the world's No 1 fetish". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 20 May 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2007.
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