About Me

I've worked in the adult industry for decades, and one question has kept coming back to me: how did someone become interested in that particular fetish?

Some interests were easy for me to understand. Others took a little more time, a little less assuming, and a willingness to ask a fairly simple question: “So, what got you interested in that?”

That's the part that interests me. You can recognize a category, know what a word means, and still have very little understanding of what someone actually enjoys about it. A definition gets you started. Asking a good question can take you quite a bit further.

After all these years, I still have questions. Apparently, this industry doesn't come with a point where someone hands you a certificate and says you've seen everything.

Why I started FetishHouse

I wanted somewhere to explore those questions and share what I've learned with more people. Somewhere you could look up an unfamiliar term, understand the differences between related interests, or read about something you've always been curious about but never quite knew how to ask.

I'm bringing my experience and curiosity to this site. I don't claim to know what makes every person tick, and I don't want to turn one person's explanation into a rule for everyone else. The same fetish can mean different things to different people. That leaves plenty worth talking about.

FetishHouse starts with a dictionary, but I want it to grow into broader discussions about fetishes, the people interested in them, and the websites and culture around them. Plain language, useful context, and a little humor. We're talking about a subject people enjoy; every paragraph doesn't need to arrive wearing a lab coat.

A little fetish fun

I think people should feel comfortable in their own skin and able to ask honest questions about what interests them. You don't have to share someone else's preference to listen, understand it better, or treat them with respect.

There's nothing wrong with a little fetish fun between consenting adults. There's also nothing wrong with deciding something isn't for you. Curiosity doesn't come with an obligation to try everything you read about.

My aim is to make the subject easier to understand, give people room to be themselves, and keep learning along the way. If you leave here knowing something you didn't know before—or with a better question to ask—then the site is doing what I built it to do.