Word: fetishized
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...teenage boys who visited his apartment near Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square, Ed Savitz was an easy client who paid $15 for oral sex and had a fetish for soiled underwear and socks. Health and law-enforcement officials fear that Savitz was also a walking AIDS time bomb. The 50-year-old actuary, who was arrested and charged with sexual abuse of children last month, has admitted that he has had AIDS for one year...
...Guns, above all -- their availability, their seductiveness. They become a fetish of manhood and power in a world that has given the young neither self-discipline nor much to hope for. Children have trouble expressing themselves. Guns are definitively articulate...
...many people tried to jam into Literature and Arts B-39 "Michaelangelo" as crowded into the Science Center to see Dr. Ruth. We must have some kind of fetish for the discussion of naked bodies. Spike Lee had to move his first lecture yesterday to Sanders Theater, but that's fine since none of the people there will actually get into the class...
...Roche College, argues that this same extremism reflects a perverse view of freedom. "Civil liberties means the right of the individual to win against the majority," he says. "But civility and community are both predicated on the individual being subordinate to the interest of society. If you make a fetish of individual rights, you are going to emasculate that community...
...both appalled and enraptured and wonders how people, after seeing such a spectacle, can go on living in the same old ways: "Why is nothing changed, where are the local crowds, why do we still have names and addresses and car keys?" Bill, who has made a fetish of his own individuality and remoteness from others, looks at Karen and says, "You come from the future...