I wrote a book!

Resources for people with unique desires are surprisingly scarce, and many still reinforce the outdated idea that fetishes should be hidden or suppressed. I wanted to create something different: a compassionate, evidence-based guide to understanding the wonderfully weird world of human desire.

Through fascinating research, surprising history, and unforgettable real-life stories, FETISH explores why we're turned on by the things we're turned on by. From rats conditioned to develop "jacket fetishes" in laboratory studies to the cultural rise and fall of quicksand fetishes, we'll explore the many forces that shape desire.

Along the way, you'll meet people with a wide range of unconventional attractions: a man aroused by being wrapped in a carpet and stepped on, a woman whose love of bicycles has shaped her romantic life, a man fascinated by wet floor signs, a couple exploring a shared balloon fetish, and many more.

Readers with a fetish will finish the book with a fresh set of strategies for living full, beautiful lives with their fetishes, while readers without a fetish will find themselves surprised and amused at the enormity of human sexual diversity.