Medical Fetish

A medical fetish is where the medical toys, equipment, activities and instruments are used in medical examinations or medical play.

People believe that a medical fetish is the result of learned behavior from childhood.

A typical medical fetish scenarios will includes intimate examinations, such as rectal examination, gynecological examination, rectal temperature taking, catheterization, enemas, injections, the insertion of suppositories, menstrual cups and prostate massage.

The instruments or medical toys used in these examinations vary from speculums, to dilators, to sounds, to catheters, to stethoscopes etc.

A dental or tooth fetish, using such items as dental braces, creates a sexual fetish where a person is sexually aroused or stimulated by the sight, brushing, or feel of dental braces (especially silver or stainless steel braces, retainers and headgear).

Some other medical devices used for fetish activities, are orthopedic casts and orthopedic braces in abasiophilia.

Other forms of medical fetish are surgical fetishes, such as performing surgery or having surgery performed on one's self.

An even more specific fetish is an “anesthesia fetish”, this involves the procedures and devices used to administer a general anesthesia, especially where a mask is used to administer the gaseous anesthesia to the patient.