Fetishism is the obsessive attachment or sexual desire directed toward an object.
Fetishism refers to anthropology, the worship of a fetish or inanimate object which is believed to possess magic al powers. The term has been taken over by clinical psychology to refer mainly to the sexual excitement in men produced by an object associated with women. Favourite fetishes are hair, feet, shoes, underwear and those black silk stockings with the little red bits at the top.