At what point does a strange habit become a fetish?

I think it would be when he starts hitting the ham because of it.

A fetish needs a strong sexual attachment attributed to the matter to be defined as such. No matter how fucked up it is, a guy collecting roadkill isn’t a fetish if he gets no sexual gratification out of it.

Maybe when one spends too much time thinking about it. [and spending time doing too]

It becomes a fetish when a person uses it to reach orgasm.

What about a shoe fetish, how is that indicative of an orgasm?

What’s wrong with collecting roadkill?

The shoe fetish many people talk about is a misuse of the term fetish. It is more appropriately called an obsession.

Or, if it’s buying them, a compulsion. @Symbeline and @downtide are right about a fetish.

@incendiary_dan Did I say it was wrong? :)

I don’t know if it’s true or not, but I’ve heard that some people actually eat it, if it’s fresh.

@Symbeline I seen a show on cable about some Brit, that was called the “Roadkill Gourmet”. He showed people where and what fresh road kill was good to eat. He found lots of pheasants.

I can’t find in the dictionary anything about fetishes being sexual.

@Hypocrisy_Central Yeah. I heard that too, it’s not some bad eating at all apparently. Like hunting, but without all the work lol. As for a fetish, don’t let it cross your mind that it doesn’t exist lol. XD

Umm, yea. I think I’ve actually posted my recipes on Fluther. :P

You did? What the hell, where?

Probably in the same place I told the story of finding two deer in one night and staying up until 3 or 4 am butchering them, when my friend and I had to be at work teaching wilderness skills early the next morning. I’m trying to find that now.