Why Do We Have Fetishes? (2018 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 30 October 2025
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August 17, 2018
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners. |
| 0:07.9 | We've had podcast episodes before in which we talked about parapherias in which people |
| 0:14.3 | exhibit preference or compulsions for sadomasochism or voyeurism or exhibitionism, other kinds of, |
| 0:25.7 | and then it can get a little darker like wanting to actually harm other people while having sex. |
| 0:33.2 | And we talked about them in detail, but what we didn't get to is perhaps why we evolved |
| 0:40.4 | these things, because, you know, it's hard to nail that down. |
| 0:45.4 | But I thought we would have Yuval Laur on the podcast since he is an expert on these |
| 0:51.8 | sorts of things. |
| 0:52.4 | Welcome to the podcast, Yuval. |
| 0:54.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:55.2 | This is the Psychology and Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and a |
| 1:00.4 | professor. Yuval, can you introduce yourself, please? Yes, I'm Yuvaloa. I live in Colorado, |
| 1:07.1 | in Boulder, and I have a PhD in Culture Studies, which I wrote about the evolution of |
| 1:13.5 | the capacity for fervor and awe and religious conversion. And right now I'm turning that into a book. |
| 1:20.2 | What will the book be called? Well, the current title is either the infatuated primate or the |
| 1:26.8 | awe-inspired primate. |
| 1:28.4 | The episode today is about the sexual perverted primate, so help us understand that. |
| 1:36.4 | Well, so we need to situate that within a context. So let me start by introducing a thing called sexual imprinting, which is in animals. |
| 1:51.0 | Primarily we see it in birds, but it probably exists in many other, in many mammals as well. |
| 1:57.0 | And sexual imprinting, like other types of imprinting, |
| 2:01.0 | means that there is a sensitive period in development |
| 2:04.8 | when the bird will decide, or, you know, |
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