Wetlook

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A clothed pool party

Wetlook is a paraphilic behaviour where sexual enjoyment is derived from wearing or seeing people wearing wet clothes.

Common terminology

Phat dipping

People jumping into a river

Clothed jump into a river, Belgium.

The expression "phat dipping" refers to the act of jumping or diving clothed.<ref name="wackywet_wet_clothing_forum">Template:Cite web</ref> The term originates from the 2009 rap song "Phatdippin' Rap" by duo Rhett & Link, showing people jumping fully clothed into a pool. The lyrics encourage people to jump into the water with their clothes on rather than a swimsuit.<ref name="Phat_dippin_source">Template:Cite web</ref> The neologism became popular,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> especially in the United States due to the contest organized upon the release of the song inviting viewers to upload their own version.<ref name="Arthur Phatdipping Just?">Template:Cite web</ref>

Wetfun

"Wetfun" refers to the enjoyment derived from the feeling of swimming clothed. This fetishistic attitude is distinct from any non-sexual enjoyment people may feel from swimming while dressed.<ref name="Swim Teach">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="culture-hobby">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Arthur Phatdipping Just?" />

Wetlook

The term "wetlook" refers to the sight of wet clothes clinging to the skin.<ref>A testimony "Practice of wet," on www.za-gay.org/forum/ Template:Webarchive.</ref>

Wetters

Online, the community refers to themselves as "wetters". Subcommunities of wetters include:

Get-wets

Wetters for whom the manner and conditions of getting wet are important, plunging them into deep emotional states.<ref name="borstling">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Intro_NJCO">Template:Cite web</ref>

Jumpers

Wetters who enjoys getting wet quickly or in an unintended or undeserved manner, such as being pushed into water.Template:Cn

Stay-wets

Wetters who keep their clothes on once out of the water.Template:Cn

Walkers

Wetters who enjoy getting wet slowly.Template:Cn

As sexual stimuli

Alex Comfort writing in The Joy of Sex suggests that wetlook clothing functions as a kind of "superskin", enhancing the visual and tactile qualities of shininess and tightness,<ref>Alex Comfort, The Joy of Sex (London, 1972), pp. 21–22</ref> stating that if your lover "likes you to look like a cross between a snake and a seal, wear what he gives you".<ref>Alex Comfort, The Joy of Sex (London, 1972), p. 23</ref>

According to Desmond Morris, water on the skin is seen as mimicking the sweat of sexual arousal.<ref>D. Morris, The Naked Ape Trilogy (London, 1988), p. p. 377</ref>

The erotic aspect of the shininess can be compared to latex fetishism.

In culture

In Western cultureTemplate:Where, swimming fully clothed is sometimes prohibited in public places<ref name="Arthur_Defense">Template:Cite web</ref> or considered socially unacceptable.<ref name="culture-hobby" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>Template:Better citation

In Denmark and Germany, wetlook has become a minor cultural movement.<ref name="culture-hobby" /> Meeting groups<ref name="Wetfans-Luenen">Template:Cite web</ref> and associations organize events.Template:When<ref name="Intro_NJCO" /> The annual end-of-summer beach party in Borgentreich<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> was a major event for wetters, and some people travel hundreds of kilometres to participate. Similar events take place regularly.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

A mud pit where participants have to crawl

A "liquid dirt" pool, a typical obstacle in a "mud run"

New Kingdom of Egyptian poetry has a girl telling her lover: "It is pleasant to go to the pool...That I may let you see my beauty in my tunic of finest royal linen when it is wet".<ref>Quoted in L. Cottrell, Queens of the Pharaohs (London 1966), p. 75</ref>

Further reading

• Template:Cite book See the "Clothes" and "Wet look" entries.

External links

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