If you are intensely interested in the aesthetic, details, or tactile feel of coats or jackets, or of a particular style or type, you may have a jacket fetish.
The jacket or coat fetish is not something you hear much about, even in kink forums. While you may find your puffer coat kink satisfied on like-minded TikTok or Instagram accounts, the jacket fetish doesn’t come up in BDSM or fetish magazines and blogs as often as other kinks.
If you have a jacket fetish you might think it’s something quite rare. Worry not. It’s not rare but quite common.
While not quite as common as undergarment or footwear fetishes, in a few studies done to assess sexual interest in various clothing items, coats, jackets and uniform coats ranked consistently high for kinks among respondents.
What Is a Jacket Fetish?
Jacket fetishism is a form of clothing fetishism, specific to coats and jackets.
A jacket fetish means that someone experiences intense sexual arousal and pleasure related to (and technically, to qualify as a fetish, dependent on) coats, jackets, or a specific kind of coat or jacket.
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A coat fetish, or jacket fetishism, makes sense in the context of clothing fetishism. Clothes are worn against the body, concealing body parts that are sexually exciting and thus becoming erotic through proximity, substitution, and association.
Often, concealing clothing is more erotic to a lover than revealing the full monty. For example, tight jeans or a low cut dress are sexier to most people than the naked body itself.
For other people, the tactile qualities of the coat or jacket are more important. This is a kind of fabric fetishism. Just as fetishes for latex, rubber, leather, PVC, nylon are common, jacket fetishes can be related to fur, nylon, down, leather and more.
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Finally, many kinks and fetishes are simply imprints from personal experiences. Just as someone may find a particular cologne or color underwear erotic because early sexual experiences involved them, being highly aroused by someone skiing in a form-fitting coat or falling for a high school bad boy in a leather jacket can set a strong sexual interest deep inside the psyche.
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8 Types of Jacket Fetish
1. Leather Jacket Fetish
There’s nothing more rock ’n’ roll than a rebel free spirit in a leather jacket, and this kind of jacket fetishism is extremely common.
Full disclosure: on more than one occasion, I’ve asked my lover to leave his jeans and leather jacket on while I’m totally naked and fuck me just by opening his fly.
I love the feeling of burrowing under the leather jacket, the scent, the feel, the touch, the heat from his body. I do love leather generally, but the leather jacket ratchets that thrill up.
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2. Fur Coat Fetish
The fur coat fetish is classic erotica. Remember all those old Hollywood rumors of so and so (Marilyn Monroe, Josephine Baker) wearing nothing underneath their furs? Today fur is morally forbidden so that adds taboo, and an even more luxury or exclusive sensation to those who are turned on already.
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3. Puffer Jacket Fetish
The puffer jacket fetish is enormously popular on social media accounts, and lots of unsuspecting commuters have found their everyday winter weather wear landing on kinky threads for down coat and puffer jacket kinksters.
People with a puffer jacket fetish love the tactile feel of the nylon, the puffy rib detailing, and the puffy effect of the coat against the body.
4. Life Jacket Fetish
Life jackets are a whole thing for some kinky people. While technically a jacket, yes, it’s a bit different from the clothing jacket fetish because life jackets are assistive devices rather than clothes.
Folks with life jacket kinks experience intense sexual pleasure looking at people in life jackets, touching the synthetic fabric and floatation devices, tightening the straps, or wearing life jackets personally. Some love the bright colors.
For many, the life jacket fetish has something to do with BDSM. The straps, the restricted movements, and the potential emergency situations like boat sinking or falling into dark water are part of the arousal for them, and may also inspired savior roleplay scenes that excite fetishists.
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5. Straight Jacket Fetish
I tend to rewind straight jacket scenes in asylum or hospital-themed horror flicks a few more times than “normal.” There is something very sexy about someone being “tamed” by the restrictions of a straight jacket. The aesthetic and restriction of straight jackets are a kind of jacket fetish for some.
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6. Long Coat Fetish
Some people have a thing for long coats. Whether form fitting or more like the Yeti trekking across the glaciers, a full body coat suggests all kinds of erotic wonder for folks with a long coat fetish.
7. Trench Coat Fetish
So many sexy archetypal characters wear a trench coat. Detectives, Marlene Dietrich, Neo of the Matrix… the trench coat fetish is a common form of jacket fetishism.
8. Military Jacket Fetish
Very common is a uniform fetish or military fetish. Police gear, marching band wear, or jackets from a certain kind of club or militia are common themes in jacket fetishism.
Military jacket fetishism is a double whammy—the aesthetic detailing of jackets and the ritual of putting them on and removing them, and the power dynamic suggested by the military subject.
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