Fetish Fuel is a fan term used as a label for any element of a story that serves to titillate the reader's erotic or obsessional sensibilities.
The term is not limited strictly to what your dictionary would define as a fetish. It stands in pretty well for the word 'fixation', actually. Both of these sentences mean the same thing:
- "He has a Light Saber fixation."
- "Light Sabers are his fetish fuel."
We no longer collect examples of fetish fuel. We did so for long enough to establish that literally
everything is someone's fetish fuel, and that some few individuals are quite willing to go on about theirs at length. The topic seems to want to get out of
Family Friendly territory too easily for TV Tropes, so we spun off another wiki for it:
Fetish Fuel Wiki
.
Please note that this trope describes an
Audience Reaction. For
In-universe examples please see
Fetish. Please change any
In-universe examples of
Fetish Fuel to
Fetish.
Fetish Fuel Station Attendant redirects here for the same reason and should be cleaned up in the same way, except that examples should be checked to see whether they properly belong in
Ms. Fanservice or
Mr. Fanservice.
