Stigmatophilia: sexual attraction to piercings and tattoos

There are all kinds of them: with multiple shapes, sizes, designs, colors… And as many places to put them as there is available surface on the body. We talk about the passion for piercings and tattoos, a fashion that if sexually attractive becomes stigmatophilia.

These types of people have a real predilection for piercings, tattoos or body scars. Hence they need to contemplate, touch or touch tattooed skin or a body full of earrings.

The kryptonite of stigmatophilia

Nowadays, getting body piercings or tattoos is a fashion that crosses borders, and has a special impact among young people and adolescents. Thanks to this boom we have been able to be aware of curious cases of this filiaunknown to the vast majority of us.

For people with stigmatophilia, only It is enough to meet someone on the street who has a drawing or perforation on their skin.to feel like approaching her automatically.

It doesn’t mean that they feel an urge to touch everything that has ink or want to kiss pierced ears, but simply that they are attracted to the people who wear them. There are also some cases in which these people have a predilection for either tattoos or piercings, not both. In this way, the opposite happens to those people who are not tattooed, pierced or without signs on their skin: they feel indifference and no sign of sexual arousal.

For some it is a paraphilia…

Many experts consider this behavior to be a type of paraphilia. That is, a pattern of sexual behavior in which the source of pleasure comes from peculiar or unusual objects, situations, activities, or individuals. These people to feel sexual excitement They need a context and very particular elements.

Within this paraphilia, a psychological current is in favor of the fact that those who suffer from it feel attracted to the suffering that the person who has committed the crime has gone through. tattoo or drilling. That is to say, It is the pain of others that would somehow make the stigmatophiles, in some way, empathize and sympathize with the other.

…for others, pure fetishism

Other professionals believe that this behavior It can be similar to the excitement that feet, shoes, lingerie, costumes, prominent hips, smell, or full lips can produce in some people. For this reason, they prefer to talk about stigmatophilia as a fetishistic act.

This perspective believes that piercings or tattoos are not necessary for these individuals to feel sexual attraction. But, By having these elements present, your pleasure is radically maximized. But, if they are not there, they still have satisfactory relationships.

Is it a sexual deviation?

Although a priori can cause social rejection, Stigmatophilia is not considered a perversion or mental illness. It is because it does not imply any harm to the other person nor does it modify their behavior. To consider it as a psychological disorder, two conditions must be met. The first is that one person hurts another. The second is that this behavior causes anguish or persistent discomfort in the person with stigmatophilia.

In this case, Stigmatophilia would not imply doing any harm, either to the person who feels it or to those who are the object of that desire. For this reason, and although each case is unique, it is not an uncontrollable and perverted desire that must end yes or yes in the performance of the sexual act.

Why piercings and tattoos?

The explanation could be anthropological, since Both tattoos and piercings are ancient practices. Since Classical Rome, Caesar’s soldiers and guards wore nipple rings. In addition to accessories for his clothing, they were a symbol of his virility and courage.

In other centuries-old cultures and civilizations, tribal paintings or piercings in the ears or other parts of the body are or were closely related to the concept of beauty. In fact, in many of them many rites have been identified, especially related to adolescence, in this sense.

They convey who we are

In addition to being a matter of aesthetics, A tattoo can capture multiple circumstances and experiences. From emotions, peak moments in that person’s life, beliefs, religious ideals and important events or people that have marked their development.

They are not only something purely decorative, but they transmit our identity. For this reason, one can understand how stigmatophiles are attracted not to the tattoo ink, but to its content and meaning. For what they represent and express about the person who wears them.

On some occasions curious cases occur. For example, many of those who are attracted to these elements do not carry them on their own body. On the other hand, some of the areas they name as favorites are the tongue, lips, nipples and genitals. So you already know. If you feel your heart race when you meet people who have piercings or tattoos… consider yourself a stigmatophile!

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