How do you write about fetishes?

[usable001]

In this context, I'm defining a fetish as something an individual finds sexually exciting, but most other people do not.

Has anyone here attempted to write about a fetish like that in such a way that the POV allowed others to experience that excitement?

How well did it work? Do you have any writing tips to share?

 

[AG31]

In this context, I'm defining a fetish as something an individual finds sexually exciting, but most other people do not.

Has anyone here attempted to write about a fetish like that in such a way that the POV allowed others to experience that excitement?

How well did it work? Do you have any writing tips to share?

I would hope lots of people had. This is an erotica site. I expect at least some (most?) stories to help the reader understand what the characters are sensing.

 

[usable001]

I would hope lots of people had. This is an erotica site.

You might think so, but more than a few topics I have raised on the forum in the past have been answered only by silence.

 

[Trubbycat]

In this context, I'm defining a fetish as something an individual finds sexually exciting, but most other people do not.

Has anyone here attempted to write about a fetish like that in such a way that the POV allowed others to experience that excitement?

How well did it work? Do you have any writing tips to share?

I've written a few fetish-oriented stories. I usually give some kind of introduction so that the reader can get involved. Check out The Secret Boutique and Show Store.

 

[anthrodisiac]

I dunno if you'd count this as a fetish, but my main series Once You Go Anthro is kind of a beginner's guide to anthros, told from the lens of someone with minimal experience with them, then learning to love and appreciate the diversity of forms and, you know, fuck them.

But if you're writing a fetish story with the goal of helping someone understand a fetish they don't have, that's a good approach: write it from the POV of someone who has stumbled into the world of that fetish in one way or another, and show what exactly about the fetish is so appealing to them, how they derive pleasure from it, stripping away social mores and norms, and finally giving in and luxuriating in the pleasures of that fetish.

 

[ElectricBlue]

You might think so, but more than a few topics I have raised on the forum in the past have been answered only by silence.

Which forums? Were they writer oriented, or player oriented forums? You might be asking the wrong crowd.

 

[TheRedChamber]

You can approach this any number of ways.

You can write a simple tale of someone getting into a specific fetish.
You can write a comedic piece messing with some of the ideas why people find the fetish odd.
You can just write two people completely on the same page about something completely bizarre.
You can write an essay.

I did learn quickly though not to inclue squicky fetishes as asides to a tale that could work without them. Generally there comes a point where the story is either about a fetish or it is not.

 

[Britva415]

Has anyone here attempted to write about a fetish like that in such a way that the POV allowed others to experience that excitement?

Not that I've seen. I'll tell you what I have seen, though:

I can get excited by reading about a character's excitement. So, it isn't their fetish that's exciting to me, it's just the excitement they get from it. There isn't a way for an author to "convert" me to a fetish I don't already have. So, maybe don't worry about trying to do that, and instead just show that it's hot to that character. The reader will relate to the character's experience of hotness, if not to the character's taste for the fetish.

 

[Jada59]

I might stand alone here. But when you write about a fetish, the people who get turned on are the people who have that fetish.

I have included some fetishes in my stories. Not my fetishes. They were written specifically for certain people.

In one case. I simply could not get into it. It’s not something I would do. My lack of interest shows.

If it’s something I could try or don’t really object to, I can go with it.

 

[MK_Whimsy]

Are you asking if it's possible to write about a particular fetish in such a way as to excite somebody who wouldn't normally be excited by it otherwise? Just want to make sure I understand the question.

In any case, most of what I've written is very fetish-heavy. Lots of straitjacket bondage, cells, restraints, idiosyncratic foot fetish stuff, and so on. I don't really know if anything I have written has "awakened" anything in anyone per se. But one thing I have attempted to do in some stories is create a slow burn situation that starts with some incredulity on the part of the character--a sort of "Why am I turned on by this weird thing, this doesn't make sense" thought process--before they eventually find themselves just mindlessly giving in and indulging it.

 

[IliCatX]

My stories are full of all kind of fetishes and they are all written in the first person. Of course, in that case, only one person’s feelings and observations regarding the event are recounted, but that's just the point of my stories.