Word: fetishized
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...defend one's dignity, even as one copies the ways of other civilizations, is to make a fetish of national uniqueness. It might seem from the outside that Japanese had remade themselves in the Western mold, wearing Western clothes, adopting Western ideas, imitating Western institutions, but somewhere deep down in the core of every true-born Japanese lay a purely Japanese soul, unsullied by anything alien. The phrase for this was wakon yosai, "Japanese spirit, Western knowledge." Western culture and learning, it was implied, was only for the head; the heart remained resolutely native...
...trying to find Regent Street. Hermès cleverly found a way to hide a compass beneath the watch's stainless steel face. It's the second recent hit for Hermès, which has been making straps since the 1920s. In 1999 a double wrap strap became a fetish for fashion editors. A new version will debut this fall...
Midday is prime time at Fetish Fashion, a masochist's mecca in central Hong Kong, where businessmen take a breather from busy schedules to be spanked, kicked, flogged, sodomized, spat on, stretched on the rack, locked in cages, manacled to crosses, hung upside down in body bags and generally treated like the pigs they are. And they pay big money...
...Fetish Fashion has no dominatrices on staff, but the store does keep a list of "mistresses" for hire, who charge around $400 per hour. Robert, a 48-year-old financier in Hong Kong, found his current mistress during a chance meeting in the shop. Robert got into being dominated when he found he was bored with ordinary sex. "BDSM is not just about sex, it's more than that," he says. "There is never any sex between a professional dominatrix and a submissive. BDSM happens here." Robert points to his temple...
Atkinson was addressing a situation that Conant and Chauncey didn't imagine. The SAT, now with millions of takers a year, has become a national fetish. A large portion of the high school student and parent population believes it is the main determinant of admission to a selective college, which in turn is the main determinant of one's eventual socioeconomic status (both propositions that the test's makers heatedly deny). High school students and their parents also believe that scores on the all important test can be raised by spending hundreds, even thousands, of dollars on courses that teach...