subversive Tag

We delved deep into the Dazed archives for projects which capture the novel sexual practice People have all the time had an affinity for fetishism, long before we had iPhones, latex dresses and spiky high heels. In ancient cultures, the word fetish meant “inanimate object worshipped for its supposed magical powers”. Within the twentieth century, it evolved to mean a type of sexual desire strongly linked to a selected object, which was pathologised, stigmatised and ultimately rejected by society. Fetishism was a grimy secret concealed behind closed doors - and thru revolting the conformists, it has naturally attracted artistic outlaws and rebels of all types.  For...