36 Fetishes Every Gay Man Should Know

From: The Advocate

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Clowns

Yes, it is true. I watched clown porn the other night just to see if this is a real fetish. It is.

I have heard it proposed more than once that fetishes are psychological conditions that manifest themselves as the only responses certain people can have to stimuli that they would otherwise consider repulsive. I personally have never fully bought this claim.  However, it is no secret that clowns - which likely be remembered in a thousand years as one of the worst creations of modern man - - are commonly fetishized figures, and I cannot help but wonder if fetishizing  clowns is  the only way some people can respond to their horror. The mind is capable of doing many incredible things, like transferring pain into pleasure, stress into desire and fear into eroticism, so while I cannot justifiably make the claim that all fetishes are the  mind's roundabout method of dealing with revulsion, I do wonder why clowns have emerged as such a surprisingly common fetish.

Photo of Ouchy the Clown by Scott Beale/Laughing Squid