414: Help! My partner has a foot fetish. What now?

Brave Love Great Sex – Couples Therapy Podcast

Cloud10

Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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A fetish is an object or part of the body that turns someone on sexually. How do partners safely discuss fetishes? Join George and Laurie in today's episode as they answer a mailbag question from a listener who discovered that their spouse has a foot fetish. This episode is for you if you have a fetish that you're unsure how to share with your spouse or you have learned about your spouse's fetish. Dr. Laurie shares that rather than shut down the fetish a couple can focus on expansion of sexual worlds. She provides direction on taking the sexual charge the fetish creates and making use of it in a way that supports the sexual relationship between partners. Exploring sexual fetishes may cause conflict between partners and George reminds us that better communication here is key. We reduce the fear of the unknown by having good conversation between lovers and learning how/if this fetish is integrated in the relationship. We want to thank our listener for sending in this question and opening up our audience to the topic of fetishes. We'd love to hear your thoughts on this topic! Make sure to drop us a line either in our listener mailbag or over on our instagram page @foreplay_sextherapypodcast Thanks as always for helping us keep it hot, y'all! Check out our great sponsors: CozyEarth -- the most fantastic, softest, comfiest sheets you've ever slept on! Use the coupon code 'foreplay' to get 35% off site-wide! Dipsea -- Develop your erotic mind! Designed by women for women! An app with short, sexy stories to help you get in the mood! Go to dipseastories.com/foreplay for an extended 30 day free trial! Uberlube is our favorite lubricant for great sex! Silky, smooth, and safe! Order it today with the coupon code 'foreplay'! Addyi.com/Foreplay -- Ask your gynecologist about this drug that helps women with low libido! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.4	Let's talk about fetishes.
0:35.2	What turns you on, baby.
0:37.2	Ooh, let's talk about fetishes.
0:40.0	Ooh, she said it better than I did. Welcome to Fort Play Sex Therapy.
0:46.0	I'm Dr. Lori Watson, your sex therapist.
0:49.0	And I'm George Valley, a couples therapist.
0:51.0	We are here to talk about sex. Our mission is to help
0:55.2	couples talk about sex in ways that incorporate their body, their mind, and their
1:00.8	hearts. And we have a little bit of fun doing it right gee listen and let's change some
1:05.8	relationships so dr lorry sex experts I mean what is it about these fetishes?
1:12.6	Yeah, so a fetish is kind of something that is an object or a part of a body that turns people on sexually, that it's not actually a turn on about a person or your partner,
1:27.0	but it's this other thing.
1:30.0	I had a professor once who, he was trying to explain fetishes and he said you know I like pet my cat and my cat arches it's back and I get an erection and it's kind of like this he was trying to normalize that
1:46.3	lots of crazy things that you know we wouldn't think turn us on do turn us on and
1:50.8	it was kind of this fetish and I've certainly worked with people with
1:54.7	fetishes you know one person had a diaper fetish and wanted to wear diapers to work
2:00.0	and wanted to have sex in a wet diaper and all this stuff and you know he didn't know where it came from but it turned out
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