Here’s the difference between kinks and fetishes.
What is a kink?
It’s based primarily on your generation, culture, and religion.
What is a fetish?
A fetishist would typically not be able to experience sexual arousal without it.
The difference between a kink and a fetish.
Kinks are more about exploration and variety, whereas a fetish is a sexual necessity.
These days kink is used to spice things up.
By increasing sexual excitement, kink can be used to also enhance the intimacy of the experience.
Kink is something used to enhance sex, but it isn’t a requirement for it.
Kink is an umbrella term.
Kinks and fetishes often overlap.
Most fetishes are kinks, though not all kinks are fetishes.
For example, a leather fetish is also a form of kink.
Some fetishes are problematic or dangerous.
Fetishes can sometimes be more extreme and disruptive due to the constant requirement of their fetish for sexual pleasure.
Some fetishes can even be dangerous, whether for the fetishist or the object of their desires.
Someone who can only be aroused by children (akapedophilic disorder) also has a clearly problematic fetish.
Both of these fetishes don’t allow for consent and cause clear harm to others if acted on.
However, most fetishes are not illegal.
Both fetishes and kink are becoming more mainstream.
It separated nonconsenting abuse from consensual enthusiastic alternative sexual interests.
Along the same line,BDSM fantasies were common in 93% of men and 96% of women.
