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classical conditioning has been argued to be implicated
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in the formation of sexual desire,
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including fetishes.
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So a behaviorist story about fetishes, for instance,
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is it's straightforward classical conditioning.
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Just as your lover's caress brings you to orgasm,
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your eyes happen to fall upon a shoe.
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Through the simple tools of classical conditioning then,
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the shoe becomes a conditioned stimulus
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giving rise to the conditioned response of sexual pleasure.
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This almost certainly is not the right story
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but again, just as in phobias,