Tag: Fetish
Far From a Kink, Donald Trump’s Dictator Fetish Puts Him Squarely in the Mainstream
March 22, 2024
The American elite has long had a soft spot for “our sons of bitches” like those Trump now befriends.
Donald Trump is rarely happier than when he’s enjoying the company of an autocrat or dictator. Indeed, it often seems that for Trump one of the chief perks of
The Birth of a New Brand of Exercise Fetish
Remember “being in your body”? In the 1960s and ’70s, a crop of counterculturalists argued that corporeal awareness was crucial not only to self-actualization but also to social transformation. Flocking to an expanding network of retreats, New Age bookstores, and organic food stands, they embraced “embodied practices”—as they began to be called—as a means of liberation from the inauthentic, technocratic, and spiritually bankrupt modern world. The yoga mat was considered one such experimental and even revolutionary