Fetishes in the News

I have always found Fetishes a strange topic. After scanning some newspaper articles I have decided that there are some that are even more strange than I could have ever thought possible.

For example:
"In October, airline baggage courier Rodney Petersen, 30, pleaded guilty in Melbourne, Australia, to stealing hairs (head and pubic) from clothing or hairbrushes in women's luggage. At his home, police found 80 plastic bags containing hairs, labeled with each owner's name." [Agence France-Presse, 10-20-06]

After reading that I had to try and hold my lunch down. That is just disgusting! Why would anyone collect and catalog the hair of complete strangers?

Another strange one:
"England's Liverpool Magistrates Court granted police a temporary "sexual offenses prevention order" in October against Akinwale Arobieke, 45, who had been jailed for pestering people with requests to feel their muscles. Arobieke is prohibited from touching, feeling or measuring muscles or asking people to do squat exercises." [The Guardian (London), 10-26-06]

That one was strange, but not disgusting. Just plain funny. I wondered how many actually let Arobieke measure, and feel their muscles. Do you think any one actually did the squat exercises Arobieke requested?

And Finally:
"'I've always had the desire to play (the cello) naked,' said Ms. Jesse Hale, a music major at Austin Peay State University (Clarksville, Tenn.) and member of the CJ Boyd Sexxxtet of nude cellists who play their experimental, chant-like songs in concert around the country. Hale, who says she's been playing naked since sixth grade, explained to Austin Peay's newspaper in September that cellists 'make full body contact with (their) instrument,' and their legs even 'wrap' around it so that '(i)t just feels natural.'" [The All State, 9-6-06]

What do you think the gender make-up in her audiences is?