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well I do have a foot fetish, which is still stigmatized despite being fairly common. but it's not even like my main thing or whatever, I just have a fetish for every part of the human body
idk about smells because I don't have sex so my fetishes are primarily visual AFAIK. but maybe I'd be into it
I wouldn't call it a fetish but some people have cute feet. I just see them the same as any other body part. Idk the internet has kind of warped this but I always thought a sexual fetish was like something you need in order to derive sexual pleasure from an activity. Like a person with a foot fetish needs to be interacting with your feet during sex or it's just not going to work out. Where a person (like you or me) who just might think you have nice feet in the same way you might have nice hair or eyes or butt or whatever would just be called, like, normal lol
I've been told that's the difference between a kink and a fetish - fetish elements are more or less required to get off; whereas kink elements simply make it better, and not necessarily even in a directly sexual sense. But usage seems to vary