What is the difference between fetish and kink? I thought they were same.

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Fetishism tends to refer to tangible things - pantyhose, feet, rubber, leather, etc. Fetishism often relates to sexual fascination but not always.

Kink tends to refer to sexual interests that may be tangible or may be a set of behaviours (power play, role play), and is a larger umbrella term.

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In the modern layman vernacular, they are

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I think all fetishes are kinks but not all kinks are fetishes?

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What's the difference, strategy daddy director?

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Thanks all for the responses

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They used to be called perversions

Yeah but then many of us came to understand that shaming people for this stuff is damaging

A kink can be a fetish depending on how woke someone is

A hose can get kinked but it cannot get fetished

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