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This category was listed for deletion on March 14, 2005. No clear consensus to support deletion at this time. The following is the relevant discussion and should not be modified in order to maintain an accurate historical record.
Category:Paraphilia
This should be merged with Category:Sexual fetishism. The two categories already overlap quite a bit, and I don't think it's possible to make a clear, NPOV distinction. "Paraphilia" carries a negative, medical connotation; "Sexual fetishism" I think is mostly interpreted as having positive or negative connotations depending on whether or not you approve of the practice(s). -- Beland 07:58, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep, sexual fetishism is just one type of paraphilia, and therefore a subcategory.--Patrick 09:55, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
After reading the article on paraphilia, I'm inclined to agree with Patrick. --Azkar 15:13, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Well, it looks like some things which could easily be considered sexual fetishes have landed in Category:Paraphilia. If we're to keep the category, I'm wondering which are supposed to stay? What would be the rule for deciding that? -- Beland 02:49, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Taking a cursory look through Category:Paraphilia, the only fetish I could find was plushophile (there may be others .. I didn't look to closely). There do appear, however, to be several members of Category:Sexual fetishism that shouldn't really be there. From what I've read in the articles here, fetishes are a form of paraphilia where the sexual attraction is to an inanimate object, or a specific body part. The common usage of fetish, however, seems to be synonomous with paraphilia - so that's where a lot of the categorization confusion is coming from, I think. --Azkar 05:12, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
The sexual fetish article says that's how Freud described them - but you are right, the common usage is as a synonym. Emetophilia (vomit-attraction) is described in its article as a sexual fetish, but is under Paraphilia; there are a number of things under sexual fetishism that don't involve inanimate objects, like Infantilism. Paraphilia describes a fetish as involving only a physical object, not mentioning body-part attraction. I'm not sure it's entirely useful to make any particular distinction, or perhaps a different approach might be more useful. Like "sexual attractions involving inanimate objects", "sexual attractions involving body parts", "sexual attractions involving animals", etc. These have the benefit of being clear-cut and also value-neutral. -- Beland 08:07, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Currently too much overlap between the two categories. No opinion right now as to whether or not Category:Paraphilia should be deleted, though if the overlap is eliminated I'm leaning towards keep. -Sean Curtin 00:15, Mar 19, 2005 (UTC)
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