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Wetlook is a paraphilic behaviour where sexual enjoyment is derived from wearing or seeing people wearing wet clothes.
Common terminology
editPhat dipping
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The expression "phat dipping" refers to the act of jumping or diving clothed.[1] The term originates from the 2009 rap song "Phatdippin' Rap" by duo Rhett & Link, showing people jumping fully clothed into a pool. The lyrics encourage people to jump into the water with their clothes on rather than a swimsuit.[2] The neologism became popular,[3] especially in the United States due to the contest organized upon the release of the song inviting viewers to upload their own version.[4]
Wetfun
edit"Wetfun" refers to the enjoyment derived from the feeling of swimming clothed. This fetishistic attitude is distinct from any non-sexual enjoyment people may feel from swimming while dressed.[5][6][4]
Wetlook
editThe term "wetlook" refers to the sight of wet clothes clinging to the skin.[7]
Wetters
editOnline, the community refers to themselves as "wetters". Subcommunities of wetters include:
Get-wets
editWetters for whom the manner and conditions of getting wet are important, plunging them into deep emotional states.[8][9]
Jumpers
editWetters who enjoys getting wet quickly or in an unintended or undeserved manner, such as being pushed into water.
Stay-wets
editWetters who keep their clothes on once out of the water.
Walkers
editWetters who enjoy getting wet slowly.
As sexual stimuli
editAlex Comfort writing in The Joy of Sex suggests that wetlook clothing functions as a kind of "superskin", enhancing the visual and tactile qualities of shininess and tightness,[10] stating that if your lover "likes you to look like a cross between a snake and a seal, wear what he gives you".[11]
According to Desmond Morris, water on the skin is seen as mimicking the sweat of sexual arousal.[12]
The erotic aspect of the shininess can be compared to latex fetishism.
In culture
editIn Western culture[where?], swimming fully clothed is sometimes prohibited in public places[13] or considered socially unacceptable.[6][14][better source needed]
In Denmark and Germany, wetlook has become a minor cultural movement.[6] Meeting groups[15] and associations organize events.[when?][9] The annual end-of-summer beach party in Borgentreich[16][17] is a major event for wetters, and some people travel hundreds of kilometres to participate. Similar events take place regularly.[18]
New Kingdom of Egyptian poetry has a girl telling her lover: "It is pleasant to go to the pool...That I may let you see my beauty in my tunic of finest royal linen when it is wet".[19]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Phat Dipping - Swim in Your Clothes for Fun". wackywet.com. Interaliant. Retrieved December 31, 2014.
- ^ McLaughlin, Rhett; Neal, Link. "Phatdippin' Rap". Retrieved April 5, 2013.
- ^ "phat dipping". www.urbandictionary.com. March 25, 2009. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
- ^ a b Chappel, Arthur. "PHAT-DIPPING – IS IT JUST WETLOOK?". arthurchappel.me.uk. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
- ^ "Swimming fully clothed". Retrieved April 5, 2013.
- ^ a b c "What is Wetlook? Fetish, cultural movement or hobby?". Retrieved April 5, 2013.
- ^ A testimony "Practice of wet," on www.za-gay.org/forum/.
- ^ "Wetlook paraphilia - aspects of a sexual variation". www2.hu-berlin.de. Humboldt University of Berlin's Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology. July 1, 2000. Retrieved April 12, 2013.
- ^ a b "Introduction". njco_intro_english.
- ^ Alex Comfort, The Joy of Sex (London, 1972), pp. 21–22
- ^ Alex Comfort, The Joy of Sex (London, 1972), p. 23
- ^ D. Morris, The Naked Ape Trilogy (London, 1988), p. p. 377
- ^ "In Defense of the Wetlook Fetish". www.arhurchappel.me.uk. Archived from the original on January 6, 2014. Retrieved April 6, 2013.
- ^ "Intentionally Soaked Fashion - Swimming Fully Clothed (GALLERY)". www.trendhunter.com. Trend Hunter. November 24, 2008. Retrieved April 4, 2013.
- ^ "Nass mit Spaß in Lünen". www.wetfans-luenen.de. Radöli. Retrieved April 6, 2013.
- ^ "16. Beach Party im Borgentreicher Freibad". www.dtoday.de. Deutschland Today. August 8, 2012. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
- ^ "BORGENTREICH: Im Anzug baden gehen". www.nw-news.de. August 20, 2012. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
- ^ "Klamottenschwimmen im Freibad Gärtringen". www.gaeubote.de. die Herreberger Zeitung. September 17, 2011. Retrieved April 4, 2013.
- ^ Quoted in L. Cottrell, Queens of the Pharaohs (London 1966), p. 75
Further reading
edit- Alex Comfort and Susan Quilliam (2008). The New Joy of Sex. Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 9781845334291. See the "Clothes" and "Wet look" entries.
External links
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Media related to Wetlook at Wikimedia Commons
