“A 51-year-old man was arrested today for allegedly attacking five females in cemeteries, one a 10-year-old girl, molesting two and cutting off their ponytails… On March seventh, Sterkins allegedly grabbed the 10-year-old in a Lockport cemetery, held her down and cut off her ponytail. In a similar attack on Sunday, he allegedly grabbed a woman in a Thibodaux cemetery but the victim was able to run off. Deputies say the alleged sexual assaults happened in Jefferson Parish cemeteries, and Sterkins cut off the ponytails of the two women… In Sterkins’ home, investigators say they found the ponytail belonging to the Lockport victim.” — KATC.com (US)

When you hear the word fetish, the first thing you tend to think of is feet. In your mind you see the stereotyped image of a guy who grovels on his knees to lick the patent-leather boots of a dominatrix. But there are all kinds of fetishes and the fetish for hair is actually a pretty common one. Freud wrote about these coupeurs de nattes, guys who sneak up on women, snip off some hair, and run off with it. In fact, you can imagine this being a pretty common fetish in the years leading up to Freud, since Victorian women tended to wear those especially long tresses that you see in pre-Raphaelite paintings.

And frankly, it’s a lot easier to understand how a guy could end up with a fetish for hair than for feet. After all, feet stink and sweat and get dirty from so much contact with the ground. (Notice this trend lately with people wearing flip-flops all over the place? To a non-flip-flop-wearing New Yorker, it’s kind of astonishing. Don’t their bare feet get horribly dirty shlepping around city streets? Do they remember to wash them before crawling into bed? Or do they end up with their bed sheets all grimy at the foot end?) Anyway, this is not to say that hair can’t be pretty repellent sometimes. It can stink too, and it can harbor bugs, and it can feel like axle grease. But in these sanitary modern times, such filthy hair is the exception and not the rule. Today a hair fetish is probably less an obsession with hair proper than with the wonderful smells of the thousand varieties of shampoo you can buy.

What would be interesting, perhaps, would be to see a combination of these two common fetishes. Does anyone ever develop an overwhelming sexual response to the hair on somebody’s feet? To those little tufts of faux-pubes on the toes?

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