Hair fetishism

For example, many Muslim women cover their hair in public, and display it only to their family and close friends.

In the case of women especially, head hair has been presented in art and literature as a feature of beauty, vanity and eroticism.

In historical Indian tradition, women have been expected to maintain long hair — customarily tied out of the way, for the sake of practicality and the appearance of neatness — and have been strongly discouraged from cutting it.

Others may find the attraction of literally "having sex with somebody's hair" as a fantasy or fetish.

This is because they produce endorphins giving them a feeling which is similar to that of a head massage, laughter, or caress.

[5] On the other hand, many people feel some level of anxiety when their head hair is being cut.

[6] Trichophilia may present with different excitation sources, the most common, but not the only one, being human head hair.

[7] In order to determine the relative prevalence of different fetishes, scientists obtained a sample of at least 5000 individuals worldwide, in 2007, from 381 Internet discussion groups.