Warning: some of these "philias" are NSFNFS (Not Suitable For Nightmare-Free Sleep).

Via one of our favorite sources comes a fun illustrated diagram featuring fetishes such as microphilia, an attraction to little people, and 24 other extraordinarily creepy sexual proclivities.

Here are a few of the fetishes, along with examples of those afflicted with these preferences:

Tricophilia: arousal from hair. eg. a yeti's girlfriend, the guy who rescued Rapunzel.

Hybristophilia: arousal to people who have committed crimes. eg. Bonnie, Clyde, pen pals who marry incarcerated murderers.

Retifism: arousal from shoes. eg. Half of the world's population.

Abasiophilia: attraction … Read More

A man from Vancouver (it’s a city in Western Canada) has protested his inability to get a chauffeur's license as an invasion of his religious freedom. A previous court rejected his petition to get the license on account of his practice of BDSM (Bondage, Discipline, Dominance & Submission, Sadism & Masochism which should probably be BDDSSM, but who gives a doodle?).

The gentleman, Mr. Peter Hayes, is arguing to the Human Rights Tribunal that he is a pagan and kinky sex is part of his religion. Further, Hayes states that laws that extend to homosexuals should protect his proclivities. Read More

A study by a professor (Murray Straus) of the University of New Hampshire drew a connection between being spanked as a child and being into masochistic, coercive, or unprotected sex.

Straus has been studying the connection between corporal punishment and sexual proclivities. His first study took place in the mid 90’s and said that children that remember being spanked were twice as likely to dig masochistic sex. His next study asked the question, “I was spanked or hit a lot before age 12,” the answers were strongly disagreed, disagreed, … Read More

That sounds like a headline from the National Inquirer, right? Nah brah, it was the front page of the New York Post. A recently retired professor from Montreal is recovering from an oxygen deprivation-induced coma. The implementation of that oxygen deprivation? It was probably the dog collar or the suspension above the ground. But may have also been the nipple clamps or the hood he was wearing. Intrigued?

Long story short, a retired professor from Montreal, Canada was really into S&M. He would make trips to New York to visit dominatrices (what's the … Read More

Even if you're not sure what S&M or BDSM actually entails, the letters alone probably conjure up vivid images: Whips and chains, leather and latex, a tubby guy named The Gimp tugging on his leash as he hungrily eyes Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction. It's common to assume that sadism-and-masochism enthusiasts are at best unusual or shocking and at worst downright depraved. But are they really?

Well, The Gimp certainly is—living in a locked crate in the basement of a pawnshop will do that to you. And anecdotal evidence does suggest that S&M enthusiasts differ from"normal" people in … Read More