# What fetishes don't work well in real life? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 25, 2021, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857 "2021-05-25T07:13:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857/101 "2021-05-28T19:24:45Z")
Remember all that buzz about My Little Pony dolls a while back? Same company. No, I don’t have any of those, them things are _ugly!_ They also make perfectly ordinary things, like swim rings. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857/102 "2021-05-28T20:25:31Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Remember all that buzz about My Little Pony dolls a while back? Same company. I do remember. But I was still holding out hope it was the butterfly thing. I now remember there was a doper several years back that started a thread on his fetish. I can’t remember his name to look it up to refresh my memory, but I’ll give it a try. Basically, he found it arousing to see a woman being beat up, not by him, maybe by another woman. Not in a whips and riding crop way, but like a fist fight. I think he had never done it in real life and satisfied his fetish with old Wonder Woman comics. For those that are unaware, early WW comics relied heavily on WW getting beat up and tied up. The creator did this on purpose because that was his kink. Old WW was way less powerful than she is now. No flying, no beating up Superman. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857/103 "2021-05-28T20:44:51Z")
Why wouldn’t he just watch women’s pro wrestling, especially late 80’s All Japan. They beat each other bloody on a regular basis. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857/104 "2021-05-28T21:06:04Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > I now remember there was a doper several years back that started a thread on his fetish. I can’t remember his name to look it up to refresh my memory, but I’ll give it a try. I still have a PM from 14 years ago. [Edited by PuzzleGal, at poster’s request, for privacy] ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857/105 "2021-05-28T21:07:21Z")
IIRC, his thing was women being punched in the face, so more a boxing thing, I guess. I also don’t remember his exact role in the actual sex part, if he was a voyeur or he stepped in after the woman was beat up and did whatever he wanted to do at that point. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857/106 "2021-05-28T21:12:46Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I still have a PM from 14 years ago. Totally familiar with that poster, didn’t connect the dots. I didn’t really want to “out” him, even tho he’s posted about it. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857/107 "2021-05-29T00:25:21Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > Did he think you were an amputee? Or did he see your profile pic and think to himself " Wow, this guy is handsome. I wonder if he would cut of his arms for me?" I created my profile on OKCupid with the same name that I use here. After I’d already done that, I worried that I might be discouraging potential matches who would think I did have a prosthetic limb. So then I added an over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek explanation of how I lost my arm to a barracuda while doing a sea turtle census for the Cousteau Society. I gather that the humor was lost in translation and he contacted me with the belief that I was an amputee. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857/108 "2021-05-29T00:37:31Z")
Cake-sitting. Like, sitting on a cake with a naked butt. I mean _really_ sitting. When I heard about it, I laughed and thought it must be a joke, but it isn’t (still amusing as hell, tho). Apparently there are quite a few women who make their living catering to this fetish with videos, but I can see that it would be, um, untidy as part of a partnered sex act. > **[Inside the Sweet, Sticky World of Cake Sitting](https://www.vice.com/en/article/neqd5g/inside-the-sweet-sticky-world-of-cake-sitting-sexrated2018)** > > "It creates a delicious intimacy where we can let go and indulge in our fantasies." > **[This Webcam Model Has Turned Sitting On Cakes Into A Career](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lindsay-dye-cake-sitting-cam-girl_n_5b44ce78e4b07aea75449ac9)** > > "Everybody has a connection to cake." ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857/109 "2021-05-29T01:27:20Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Cake-sitting. Like, sitting on a cake with a naked butt. I mean _really_ sitting. This seems like a fetish that is exceedingly easy to indulge in IRL. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857/110 "2021-05-29T01:36:20Z")
I didn’t say it would be difficult. The OP didn’t ask about _difficult_. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857/111 "2021-05-29T02:48:27Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > But this is an issue even vanilla\* people sometimes have. When I had seriously cut my hand with the lid of a cat food can, I had to speak with the same doctors, nurses and social workers. When one of them asked me whether I ever wanted to hurt anyone, I answered, “Only politicians.” But you could answer honestly about how you came by your injuries without the risk of getting your partner prosecuted. I have a pretty good friend into BDSM who tells me that it’s mostly illegal in this state to assault another person, even if it’s consensual. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857/112 "2021-05-29T05:13:41Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I created my profile on OKCupid with the same name that I use here. After I’d already done that, I worried that I might be discouraging potential matches who would think I did have a prosthetic limb. So then I added an over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek explanation of how I lost my arm to a barracuda while doing a sea turtle census for the Cousteau Society. > > I gather that the humor was lost in translation and he contacted me with the belief that I was an amputee Sorry, but that’s funny. Nothing you can write on the internet will be outlandish enough that there isn’t someone, somewhere that will believe it. I should have guessed about the **Robot\_Arm** connection. > [@Shalmanese](#): > > This seems like a fetish that is exceedingly easy to indulge in IRL. Pretty limited to where you can practice it tho. At home or at cake parties would be about it. I can’t imagine spending a weekend at a friends or at your parents and you bring along a giant tarp and 2 or 3 cakes. “No, Mom, these cakes are just for us. And we don’t need dinner because we’ll fill up on eating cake off of our bodies. Oh, and can we have some extra towels? Thanks!” Maybe I’m just lazy but having to do all that cleanup every time you have sex seems like a chore. I think I would just find a maid that would be amenable to earning some extra cash and have cake sex with her. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857/113 "2021-05-29T05:39:25Z")
Who would ever think that a Kitchen Aid mixer would be a sex toy. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857/114 "2021-05-29T05:46:32Z")
Cake sitters? ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857/115 "2021-05-29T05:50:25Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Who would ever think that a Kitchen Aid mixer would be a sex toy. Pretty sure my brother-in-law thinks it is and that’s just for the cake, no sitting required. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857/116 "2021-05-29T05:55:10Z")
Someone has to bake the cake. I can see it now, trussing in the cake so that the descent is slow. And maybe an oven in that special room so no one requests a piece of the cake after you’ve baked it? And do you ice a target on the top? Not a bull’s eye, a bum’s eye? And I’m restraining myself from writing the massive number of double entendres that are flooding into my sick mind. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857/117 "2021-05-29T06:20:19Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > And I’m restraining myself from writing the massive number of double entendres that are flooding into my sick mind. I prefer to think of it as a vivid imagination. You could probably get 10 double entendres just from the having your cake and eating it too line. ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857/118 "2021-05-29T06:23:34Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > There are such things as human-sized inflatable bee dolls. That’s a different fetish, though. I’m told inflatables fetishists come in two varieties: those who like to pop the inflatable at the ‘crucial moment’ and those who never pop them. The former sounds like it could get expensive… ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857/119 "2021-05-29T06:24:26Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > I prefer to think of it as a vivid imagination. You could probably get 10 double entendres just from the having your cake and eating it too line. Something like 50 years ago my mother, telling me the benefits of marriage, said that I could have my cook and eat her too. So I get it honestly. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857/120 "2021-05-29T06:32:56Z")
Your mom sounds like a wise woman. Funny too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fetishes-dont-work-well-in-real-life/942857.md?page=7)