Formicophilia
One of the less lesser known branches of bestiality (or zoophilia as it is sometimes known) is Formicophilia, the practice of deriving sexual pleasure from insects. Yes, insects. Creepy, isn’t it? And crawley. While many people enjoy being lathered in chocolate or whipped cream, the more adventurous among us are indulging in the pleasures of allowing bugs, worms, spiders and all other manner of beasts to crawl over their bodies, especially their genitals. Next time someone suggests you have ants in your pants, you may want to take offence.

Vorarephilia
Sometimes simply known as ‘vore’, vorarephilia is getting turned on by the thought of being eaten by someone else, or eating them. Although connected with cannibalism, vore is often thought of as a theoretical fetish, which people like to think about rather than physically do. However, the high profile case of German Armin Meiwes in 2003 shocked the world when it was revealed in court that his victim, Bernd-Jurgen Brandes, had volunteered to be eaten, and even shared his flambéed penis with his murderer before he was killed. Different branches include ‘soft vore’ (they’re good at naming, this crowd) where prey (as the eaten are called) imagine being swallowed whole; and ‘hard vore’, where victims are ripped apart before being eaten.

Burusera
Burusera is the Japanese name for panty fetishism, one of the most popular of many prevalent sexual perversions in Japan. A fetish that includes all types of female underwear under its umbrella, the Japenese version often focuses on schoolgirls’ knickers. It attracted a lot of criticism worldwide when it was exposed in the media that underage girls were selling used pants to older men over the internet, while vending machines were also said to sell pre-packaged used panties. Remember that next time you buy a Whispa and a can of Fanta. Laws brought in around 2004 prohibited the underwear of minors being sold, but it us rumoured that clients, called ‘kageseya’ or sniffers, get round this by sniffing girls’ pants directly. Only in Japan…

Erotic lactation
The breasts have always held a sexual fascination for men. But a fascination that carries Oedipul connotations for some. Raised on the milk of your mother’s boosom, you later come to see the breasts purely as sexual objects. But while most like to maintain a separation in their minds between the breasts of lovers and those of their mother, some don’t – which brings us to erotic lactation. This fetish is sometimes related to infantifilia – where grown men dress as babies and lie in giant cots as they are pleasured – but doesn’t always. Lactating breasts are squirted into the face or penis, or sucked during intercourse. It may be milk, but it’s not our cup of tea.

Emetophilia
Not one for the fainthearted, Emetophilia is deriving sexual pleasure from vomiting or watching others vomit, said to have been a favourite pastime of the Romans. Next time you’re in your local city centre at closing time on a Saturday night, watch out for any emetophiliacs in their trench coats getting all in a froth over a girl expelling 20 Barcadi Breezers onto the pavement. Sickos, literally. Emetophilia forms part of a large group of bodily fluid fetishes including: urolagnia, the urine fetish, popularly exhibited in ‘golden showers’; coprophilia, deviving sexual pleasure from feces (with its by-product of ’scat’ porn); and klismaphilia, sexual pleasure from enemas, said to be an extension of anal masturbation. Coprophagia, the eating of feces, we would discorage on health grounds – although someone should have told that to those Two Girls with One Cup (ask Google if you dare).

Teratophilia
Teratophilia is sometimes thought of as beauty and the beast syndrome, where people are sexually attracted to those with deformities. One of  the most common branches of teratophilia is crotomophilia, which anyone who has seen the very odd David Cronenberg film Crash will be aware of – sexual attraction to amputees. Amputee fetishism is said to have a considerable commercial market in pornography, although you won’t find it on many newsagents’ shelves.

Forniphilia
This is one for fans of Bargain Hunt or Antiques Roadshow and involves sexual objectification in which a person’s body is incorporated into a piece of furniture. Yes, furniture. You can just imagine David Dickenson all aroused over a Louis IX chair. And just beware next time you see someone paying undue attention to a set of table ‘legs’…

Blood fetish
Known as the vampire fetish for obvious reasons, this obsession involves deriving pleasure from watching others bleed, seeing blood on naked skin or, in some cases, drinking blood. Vampires have often been connected with sex in popular culture (see our recent feature on the hit US TV show True Blood) and it is the idea of blood as the human lifeforce which is said to provide the sexual appeal.

Crush fetish
Sometimes related to the formicophilia, insect, fetish above, crush fetish involves getting turned on from the crushing of insects, animals or even inanimate objetcs (cigarettes etc). While the squashing of insects and objects (that you own) is not prohibited in most countries, many governments frown on the destruction of animals for sexual pleasure. But the related sexual attraction to human corpses, necrophilia, is not specifically prohibited in the US under federal law. Although don’t blame us if you get done for grave robbing should an insatiable desire to have sex with a recently-deceased granny overwhelm you.

Omorashi
Another favourite from Japan, omorashi is a full-bladder fetish where practicioners  derive pleasure from needing to urinate or, more usually, watching others need to urinate. Porn of this sort is considered soft core in Japan and often features women dressed as schoolgirls or office workers desperately looking for somewhere to relieve themselves – before succumbing to the inevitable and wetting themselves in public.

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1. Oral sex is illegal in 18 states, including Arizona
2. In Virginia, it is illegal to have sex with the lights on.
3. It is illegal for husbands in Willowdale, Oregon, to talk dirty during intercourse.
4. Sexual intercourse between unmarried couples is illegal in Georgia.
5. Engaging in any sexual position other than missionary is illegal in Washington, DC.
6. In Connorsville, Wisconsin, it is illegal for a man to shoot off a gun when his female partner is having an orgasm.
7. In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, it is illegal to have sex with a truck driver inside a toll booth.
8. Having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal in Florida.
9. It is illegal in Utah to marry your first cousin before the age of 65.
10. Sex with animals is perfectly legal for men in Washington state, as long as the animal weighs less than 40 pounds.

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