The author gives two new interpretations to fetish. He points out that it is within range of the normal if one or the other quality of the love object becomes of great importance for the choice in love, but it is near the borderline when such a quality is regarded as an indispensable condition. Fetishist in the proper sense of the word can only be called 'who does not need a partner in sex, but a fetish, and whose sexual activity does not aim at the sexual act proper'. Fetishists are as a rule men. The activity giving satisfaction consists of putting the fetish on, or of putting a part of the body into the fetish. Many objects used as fetishes are hollow, such as shoes, corsets, or garments, etc. It is obvious that the fetish represents a vagina, or the body of the mother, while the used part of the body represents the penis. Fetishists are, thus, men who cannot practise coitus