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Fetishes as realized by photographer Steven Klein, especially: altocalciphilia (the fetish of high heels), pictophilia (the fetish for erotic pictures), and autagonistophilia (the fetish for being on camera).", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2018, Nina Burleigh, “#FreeMelania”, in The Trump Women: Part of the Deal, New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, →ISBN, part 5 (Ivanka Trump, First Daughter):", "text": "Among the Trump women, Marla Maples is the only one consistently photographed wearing flats—sneakers and espadrilles—a result of her inner tomboy, her post-divorce downsizing, and her former publicist’s [Chuck Jones’s] shoe fetish. 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[…] The “preparatory paraphilias” that typically precede serial killing and attack paraphilias, such as anthropophagolagnia, include agonophilia (sexual arousal caused by a sexual partner pretending to struggle), altocalciphilia (sexual arousal from high-heeled shoes), […]", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A fetish involving sexual attraction to high-heeled shoes." ], "links": [ [ "sexuality", "sexuality" ], [ "fetish", "fetish" ], [ "sexual", "sexual" ], [ "attraction", "attraction" ], [ "high-heeled", "high-heeled" ], [ "shoe", "shoe" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(sexuality, rare) A fetish involving sexual attraction to high-heeled shoes." ], "tags": [ "rare", "uncountable" ], "topics": [ "lifestyle", "sexuality" ] } ], "word": "altocalciphilia" }
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