Question... Please don't think I'm stupid, but what exactly is the difference between "kinky" and "fetish"?

techniy for a person with a fetish, gratification depends to an abnormal degree on something specific (feet, pain, food, anything really) and a kinky person enjoys sex considered out of the norm by most of society.

that being said a lot of people use the terms interchangeably, though incorrectly.

thanks... BTW...like the pic

Kinky is just outside Social norms. Fetish is word that gets misused enough that it's meaning is no longer clear. Traditionally it is something that emotionally replaces something else sexual.

I guess I always.... considered fetish the thought and kink the action.

Like I said Fetish iis so misused its meaning has become unclear

Interesting view. Any idea how you came to view it in that light?

Well, best way I can explain it is this. For me if it was something you just enjoyed watching then it (it being what ever non-vanilla act you like) was more on the fetish side. But if you started to practice said act then you've stepped up the the level of kink. It's hard to use specific examples because like has already been said the lines are pretty blurred.

I hear ya. I'm a stickler for proper word definitions, but I see what you're saying. Interest versus action. ;) I gotcha. :D

replaces something else... from what you and atience have explained I do get a clearer picture..but is fetish a replacement... a necessity..or both