Meanings
- uncountableFetishism for rubber or rubberwear.
Rubberism, therefore, was clearly alive, if not well, long before the advent of the permissive 1960's.
1994, Bill Thompson, Sadomasochism: painful perversion or pleasurable play?, page 951 more example
Today, fetishism in all its forms - bondage, piercing, rubberism, mummification, asphyxiation, infantilism etc - is stigmatised as a socially unacceptable form of behaviour, even though there is a great deal of curiosity surrounding its practice.
1998, Rachel Armstrong, Sci-fi aesthetics, volume 12, numbers 9-10, page 19
Origin
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rubberism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rubberism
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