Bond to Obsessions: Fetishism
In the old language and religions in African cultures, the word Fetishism means that an object believed as it has supernatural power. Shortly fetishism means the intrinsic value placed on a nonliving object. In an indexical review this must’ve been the true meaning but in today’s social life this word has a more popular meaning in sexuality. In this definition Sexual Fetishism is a sexual involvement on a nonliving object or a body part. However these two fetishisms are presented as homonym different words and doesn’t have any particular context, when we examine the words we can still see that both of them are based on the same condition: an obsession for an object. Both in religion and sexuality fetishism was literally commodified for a person in a sociological sense. the superiority and appreciation of the object takes place regardless of what it is.
