Editing Sexual fetishism (section)

== Diagnosis ==
Under the [[DSM-5]], fetishism is sexual arousal from nonliving objects or specific nongenital body parts, excluding clothes used for [[cross-dressing]] (as that falls under [[transvestic fetishism]]) and [[sex toy]]s that are designed for genital stimulation. In order to be diagnosed as ''fetishistic disorder'', the arousal must persist for at least six months and cause significant [[psychosocial distress]] or impairment in important areas of their life. In the [[DSM-IV]], sexual interest in body parts was distinguished from fetishism under the name [[partialism]] (diagnosed as [[Paraphilia NOS]]), but it was merged with fetishistic disorder for the DSM-5.<ref name="DSM-5" />

The ReviseF65 project campaigned for the [[International Classification of Diseases]] (ICD)’s fetish-related diagnoses to be abolished completely to avoid [[social stigma|stigmatizing]] fetishists.<ref name="riersol">{{cite journal |last1=Reiersøl |first1=O. |last2=Skeid |first2=S. |year=2006 |title=The ICD diagnoses of fetishism and sadomasochism |journal=Journal of Homosexuality |volume=50 |issue=2–3 |pages=243–262 |doi=10.1300/j082v50n02_12 |pmid=16803767 |s2cid=7120928}}</ref> On 18 June 2018, the WHO ([[World Health Organization]]) published [[ICD-11]], in which fetishism and fetishistic transvestism ([[cross-dressing]] for sexual pleasure) are now removed as psychiatric diagnoses. Moreover, discrimination against fetish-having and [[BDSM]] individuals is considered inconsistent with human rights principles endorsed by the United Nations and The World Health Organization.<ref name=":ICD1">{{Cite journal|last1=Krueger|first1=Richard B.|last2=Reed|first2=Geoffrey M.|last3=First|first3=Michael B.|last4=Marais|first4=Adele|last5=Kismodi|first5=Eszter|last6=Briken|first6=Peer|date=2017|title=Proposals for Paraphilic Disorders in the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11)|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior|volume=46|issue=5|pages=1529–1545|doi=10.1007/s10508-017-0944-2|issn=0004-0002|pmc=5487931|pmid=28210933}}</ref>