Fetish Origins, the Big Oyster, the Most Luxurious Fruit
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week
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The Psychology of Pin Fetishism
There's some evidence that at least in some cases there may be like a physical brain wiring thing going on. A patient who was a man with epilepsy, as long as he could remember, said he would enter a translate state when he gazed at a safety pin. And so that kind of haze that he went into ended up growing into seizures. He eventually had to give him a temporal lobectomy to remove part of the brain that was causing this epilepsy.
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