Fetish in Medical College

Fetishism means Recurrent, intense sexual arousing fantasies, sexual urges or behavior involving use of nonliving object over a period of six months, (e.g. female undergarments). The fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning. One such case was reported at Govt. Medical College, here clothes of female doctors, female staff were being stolen since seven to eight months. One afternoon a seventeen year old (adolescent age) boy was caught with female undergarments in his hand. Fetishism mostly begins at the adolescent age. If proper guidance and sex education is given to adolescent age group regarding sexual disorders and crime related to it, such conversion into criminal behavior can be avoided in this fragile adolescent's age group. Thus familial, social, occupational functioning of an individual can be improved. In developing countries like India awareness is required regarding sexual offences, so that by carrying out interventions at early stages further complications and crime rate related to it can be minimized.