As the title says, how we ended up having fetishes? Is is psychological/physiological/subconscious thing?
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“Fetish” used to mean something very different.
In psychology circles, “fetish” used to mean something that a person *could not* orgasm without. Basically, it was a far more serious term than we use it today.
Example: Some guy who simply could not orgasm unless he was sniffing lingerie.
It’s the same category of “a condition” as someone who can’t orgasm because of trauma, or because of some other emotional issue. Psychology considered fetishes something that needed to be treated with therapy, because being *unable* to reach orgasm without sniffing lingerie is not the normal human condition.
Now the term has been co-opted to mean “strong preference”, or even just general “preference”.
So if you’re asking about the classical use of the term “fetish”, I think psychologists and other mental health professionals would say that people develop them because of adverse conditions (take your pick), and should probably be dealt with via therapy.
If you’re instead talking about “a preference”, I don’t think there’s any deep explanation to be had. People prefer different things for different reasons.
But some random guy with a “fetish” for Asian women (for example), merely prefers Asian women, and can probably reach orgasm just fine on his own, or with other ethnicities too.
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