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They're a secondary sexual characteristic, so it seems like something that would get attention.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Why do you think anything primarily male would be a fetish?

Prostate cancer, you’re next

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wait, is prostate cancer the next fetish, or you’re wishing me to be the next prostate cancer patient?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

There is a super depressing story of a YouTuber named Leathersmokemi who died engaging in a similar fetish. Nick Crowley did a good video on him. I don't know of a fetish centered on prostate cancer specifically but there are cancer fetishists and the fetish centered on terminal illness is called nosaphillia so it's certainly possible that there are fetishists already out there focused on prostate cancer specifically.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

That's horrifying.

There are also people who eat themselves to death for other people, like that avocado guy, and it's just awful to know about.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Or maybe you getting prostate cancer is his fetish.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean, prostate cancer not so much, but prostate milking is a thing...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Prostate stimulation is sexy not because of the prostate itself but because it is incredibly sensitive and pleasuring when stimulated, which in turn is of course sexy for those who like to please their partner and are maybe also into butt stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's probably because a huger number of prominent secondary sexual sex characteristics get fetishized.

A brief search seems to show that it's an attractive quality like masculine forearms, and has a degree of fetish amongst the strangulation fetish community.