
the fetish can evolve from an early fascination perhaps sexual. lingerie, shoes, handbags, fur, leather, latex etc. may have brought pleasure by stimulating the senses of touch, taste, sight, hearing or smell. at puberty this may be sexual and the memory of this sexual arousal from handling silky tights or undergarments is the pleasure of the fetish. a fetish could also be fear, shock or trauma instigated.
the fetishist enjoys the fetish object in itself. in bed with a woman wearing stilettos, the fetishist is aroused by the shoes more than the wearer. at a rarer extreme the shoe fetishist desires to lick the sole of the shoe.
textiles, scenarios, parts of the body(especially feet), and many other things are documented as psychosexual stimulants for the fetishist.