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Human Sexuality and Fetishism
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This paper illustrates an application of computer content analysis in sexology. It compares a set of fictional fetishistic narratives
published on a web site for rubber boot fetishists (n = 27) with a set of samples taken from general romance and love stories
(n = 29). Using Martindale's Regressive Imagery Dictionary, it is shown that the fetishistic narratives contain a significantly
higher proportion of primary process content and a significantly lower proportion of secondary process content than the
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