Trichophilia

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Trichophilia is a paraphilia in which one becomes sexually aroused by, or is extremely fond of, human hair (usually cephalic); this may be of hair in general or different hairstyles, colours, texture, or sheen.

Arousal may occur from imagery and physical contact of hair, this includes head hair, pubic hair, and axillary hair. Head hair arousal may come from from watching or touching very long hair — for example waist length hair and longer, red hair, hair over face, thick hair, wet hair, etc.

Closely related to trichophilia is haircut fetishism. This involves sexual arousal from the cutting of hair. It may also include arousal from the touch of scissors and clippers to the body.^{[citation needed]}

In order to determine the relative prevalences of different fetishes, scientists obtained a sample of at least 5000 individuals worldwide from 381 Internet discussion groups. The relative prevalences were estimated based on (a) the number of groups devoted to a particular fetish, (b) the number of individuals participating in the groups and (c) the number of messages exchanged. Of the sampled population, 7 percent were turned on by body hair.^[1]^[2]

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^ Scorolli C, Ghirlanda S, Enquist M, Zattoni S, Jannini E A (2007). Relative prevalence of different fetishes. International Journal of Impotence Researchadvance online publication 15 February 2007; doi: 10.1038/sj.ijir.3901547. http://www.nature.com/ijir/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/3901547a.html retrieved March 2007.
^ Dobson, Roger (2007). Heels are the world's No 1 fetish. The Independent Online Edition, http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article2303022.ece, accessed February 2007.