Wetlook
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Wetlook is a paraphilic behaviour where sexual enjoyment is derived from wearing or seeing people wearing wet clothes.
Common terminology
[edit]Phat 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
[edit]The term "wetlook" refers to the sight of wet clothes clinging to the skin.[7]
Wetters
[edit]Online, the community refers to themselves as "wetters". Subcommunities of wetters include:
Get-wets
[edit]Wetters for whom the manner and conditions of getting wet are important, plunging them into deep emotional states.[8][9]
Jumpers
[edit]Wetters who enjoys getting wet quickly or in an unintended or undeserved manner, such as being pushed into water.
Stay-wets
[edit]Wetters who keep their clothes on once out of the water.
Walkers
[edit]Wetters who enjoy getting wet slowly.
As sexual stimuli
[edit]Alex 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
[edit]In 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
[edit]References
[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
