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I can answer the following questions about fetishism:

How to talk to your partner about your kinky fantasies
How to set up a "play date" for you and your partner so you can act out your fantasies.
How to practice your fantasies and fetishes solo.
The different organizations, clubs, or resources one want to contact

Crossdressers

How to approach your lover about your crossdressing fetish
How to play with your lover is s/he is a crossdresser
Different ways to can continue to make this fetish work for you

Other kinky specialities:

Animal Transformation
Foot Fetish
Role-Play
BDSM
Object fetish

"Unique" or "Uncommon" Fetishes:

Fantasies that involve supernatural creatures, celebrities, etc
Fantasies that may involve body growth, shrinkage, weight gain, etc.
Fantasies that include elaborate scenarios, scripted role-play, etc.
A combination of one or more fetishes

Edgeplay

Bloodplay
Watersports
Coprophilia/coprophagia
Roman Showers
Intense, consensual role-play with taboo or controversial themes (Rape-fantasy, animal-play, etc)

I can't answer the following:

In-depth information about medical play or bondage

If you need further guidance or coaching, then please call my phone line:

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Christina Cicchelli is a "Sexventurer" of sorts; she's spent over five years as a sex worker and has experience in a myriad of industries, including phone sex and professional domination. As a Mistress, she has worked in several NYC Dungeons and also visited devoted clients on an independent basis. As a phone sex operator, she maintained a large amount of callers who sought her guidance, creativity, and experience in fetish and role-play.

Christina is best known for her career as a porn actress. Under the non de plume, Simone Valentino, she's performed in a handful of films. She received an AVN nomination for “Best Actress” for her role in Afrodite Superstar and also won “Best New Starlet” at the Feminist Porn Awards in 2008 for her role in Audacia Ray's The Bi Apple.

Christina is a columnist for $pread Magazine and writes about all things fetish in own blog, A Fantastic Nightmare. She is also Betty Dodson and Carlin Ross’s resident Fetish Blogger on their sex-positive website (Dodsonandross.com) and coaches individuals and couples who seeking kinky inspiration in the bedroom.

Publications

A Fantastic Nightmare (Personal Blog)

Dodsonandross.com - Sex positive website and home of sex educators and feminists Betty Dodson and Carlin Ross

$pread Magazine - Printed publication for sex workers written and produced by sex workers

Education/Credentials

Graduate: The College of New Rochelle

Masters: English/Communications

Awards and Honors
2007: "Best New Starlet" - Feminist Porn Awards 2008: "Best New Actress" - AVN Awards

Past/Present Clients
Confidential but verifiable references are available

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Fetishism - Possible causes of sexual fetishism.

Expert: christina Cicchelli - 10/12/2009

Question
I'm wondering if you might know what the possible causes of sexual fetishism could be. I've read somewhere that that the formation of sexual fetishism could have something to do with genetics but I also found out that even doctors and mental health professionals aren't 100% sure about the causes of sexual fetishism. Could it also be possible that sexual fetishism has no cause at all?

Answer
Hey David,

Based upon my experience and what I've learned, there is no concrete cause for sexual fetishism. There are, however two types of circumstances in which one might develop a fetish. Childhood is a common source amongst some theorists. During pre-pubescence, and even earlier on as toddlers, we may have developed a deep and exciting relationship with an object. Over time, that object becomes the sexual stimuli needed or desired during masturbation or sex with another person. Or it just may be fetishized and, thus, practiced as part of the person's alternative lifestyle. Random association is another way that one might develop a fetish. This can happen anytime during childhood or sometime in our adult life. We come into contact with an object that arouses us, or captivates us, but the worship and need for this fetishized object happens over time through experience and increased exposure.

I've also seen articles that try and find commonalities between our sexual fetishes and our genes. However, many of those studies are performed under the belief that fetishism is a disorder, and by pinpointing its origins one is actually pinpointing the pattern of disorder in one's genes. Why arguments such as these (as well the gay gene and the race gene) are inconclusive and argued by those in the psychological and scientific community is because the values and judgments place on these issues are the result of social relation. What makes a person gay "could" be genetics, but over time the person is also exposed to a number of communities, exposed to conversations about the subject, etc. And we cannot measure how much genetics plays a role in the development of a person's cultural and sexual identity, if at all.

Really, any or all of these reasons can cause sexual fetishism. What you also mentioned is that there is no cause for sexual fetishism. To me, you may be right. Some of my clients can't explain why they are a fetishist, or why specific objects turn them on and not others. It just happens. And this is an acceptable cause of sexual fetishism too.

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