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Originally Posted by FuckingRotter
If you can't experience sexual arousal without a particular fetish involved, does that then become an orientation? If not, why not?
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No it doesn't become an orientation. Your orientation, as the term is commonly used, determines
who you are attracted to: the same gender, the opposite gender, or both genders. Some would also include being asexual, having no attraction to anyone, in that definition. Fetishes and kinks refer to
what gets you off: objects, activities, and situations which cause sexual arousal. There's a tendency to use fetish and kink interchangeably, however many draw the distinction that a kink is an arousal caused by the aforementioned objects/activities/situations. A fetish, on the other hand, is somewhat analogous to an addiction in the sense that you become so dependent on a particular kink or set of kinks that you're unable to become aroused without it/them.
People of any orientation can share a particular kink or fetish. However, people who share a kink or fetish might not share the same orientation. They're totally separate characteristics.