Template talk:Paraphilias

Nazi Chic

Would Nazi Chic qualify? Chris 02:36, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No it wouldnt, Nazi Chic is paraphinalia which is a set of item associated with a certain topic such as Nazi girls clothing, or marijuana, this template is for Paraphilias which are sexual fetishes like, Dendrophilia: the attarction to trees, or Gomaphilia the attraction to rubber and latex.Qrc2006 22:41, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Other sexological topics

Not sure if this belongs in the template. Although 'Sexually transmitted diseases and infections' is a topic related to every paraphilia and fetish, I don't think it's information people are looking for when they read about these topics. Robotman1974 07:10, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

there is a reason for this, this template is a breakup of the Sex template, which shortly after it was started began to become gigantic in scope so it was decided that each group of terms should become its own template STDs / Sexual Orientation / Praphilia / Sex acts, and all link to each other, only Paraphilia and STD/STI are done so far, so yeah thats why. Qrc2006 22:43, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I see the template is growing in size. I fear it may become too unwieldy as more and more paraphilia are added. Are both the medical/official/latin term and the regular everyday name really necessary in the template itself? I think going with either one or the other would do just fine for navigation purposes, and make the template less intimidating to study. Like I said, I can only see the list expanding in the future. Since many paraphilia don't have official-sounding names, maybe we should stick to the colloquial terms? Also, I'm guessing you'll be adding more links to more sex-related topics. Again, I don't think that's necessary, but why not structure the other links as they are in this template for example? Robotman1974 09:14, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

philias

when i made this template i thought about adding in for example dendrophilia (plants), asphixofphilia (suffocating) somthing like that to make it easier to navigate the more esoteric terms, but since the list was very extensive i thought it more important to just get it off the ground, but now that its done im wondering, if anyone else thinks this is a good ideaQrc2006 22:48, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say to only include the 'official sounding' names in the template, as the colloquial term is only a click away. Either that or the other way around, but however it's done it should be consistent. Robotman1974 23:15, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've done a major edit of the template in order to remove all the clutter and obfuscating excess. In this form it should be much easier both to navigate and to update. The template is also now less intrusive to an article's space; especially short articles. I've also realphabetised and removed a double entry. Now, only the article titles themselves are listed. Additional names for these paraphilia and fetishes, as well as brief descriptions should be mentioned within the specific articles themselves, not the template. Robotman1974 06:56, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Furry fandom

I've removed the template from the Fursuit page and added the link once more to the Yiff page. The Fursuit page does not deal exclusively with sexual uses, and only mentions it in passing. It is presumptuous at best to think that people interested in fursuits would be at all interested in the pages linked to in the Paraphilia template. The Yiff page, however, is dedicated to the sexual aspects of furry fandom. Use of fursuits for sexual purposes should perhaps be written into the Yiff article. Robotman1974 09:49, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template header

I'd like to change the header from "Paraphilia" to "Paraphilias and fetishes". If there are no objections to this in the next five days, I'll go ahead with it. Robotman1974 17:56, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Im not sure, why do you want to add in the word fetish, i think it should be simple as possible and since this is an encyclopedia the more academic term should be used, i also think it should be user friendly and lots of -philias AND -fetish are in the category however since the word fetish allready appears all over the article titles linked to i dont see why it needs to be added, but if you think it will be helpful and more educational to have a more complex title do so. and i dont care that much either way, unless you have to retag every single page from {{Template:Paraphilia}} then i think its really uncessisary and theres better uses for our time. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Qrc2006 (talk • contribs) 17:17, 27 January 2007.

The way I see it, a paraphilia and a fetish are very similar but not exactly the same. As it stands, the template includes links to articles on both topics. Also, the links in each article would not need to be changed, as only the template header would be altered. I have no intention of performing a page-move on this template. Thanks for your input though. Robotman1974 00:41, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Added "Categories"

What is the source/justification for breaking the articles in this template into the "categories" of "Paraphilia terms", "Sexual fetishism practices", and "Other"? To me, it looks like it's based solely on the way the articles are currently titled. If there is a proper organization scheme for breaking the links up in this manner, it should be noted. Otherwise, it looks rather iffy to me, and might even constitute original research. If no satisfactory explanation/justification for these added "categories" is forthcoming, I will revert this template to the way it was before - a collection of alphabetized links. I think that is the only type of structure we can impose on such a collection of paraphilias and fetishes. 66.222.227.42 02:31, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]