Wetlook

A pool party

"Wetlook" describes the appearance of fabric which is shiny and thus appears to be wet.^{[citation needed]} It may also describe the act of getting wet while wearing clothes, and enjoyment of doing so or of watching others do so,^[1] as a form of sexual excitement.

As sexual stimuli[]

Alex Comfort suggested that wetlook clothing functions as a kind of superskin, enhancing the visual and tactile qualities of shininess and tightness.^[2] He offered the 1970s-style advice that if your lover “likes you to look like a cross between a snake and a seal, wear what he gives you.^[3]

For Desmond Morris, water on the skin is seen as mimicking the sweat of sexual arousal.^[4]

On the Internet, several companies sell images or videos of hobbyists or models practicing wet look. There are two schools: sites that sell erotic content and sites that target the general public that sell soft images suitable for any audience.

Fashion and pop[]

The 1960s success of the Merseybeat saw wetlook pvc coats coming down from Liverpool to enter the London fashion scene.^[5] A few decades later, a pop Ladette might feel ambivalent to find herself posing in a pvc catsuit.^[6]

Classical prototypes[]

• New Kingdom of Egypt 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”.^[7]
• Foam-born Aphrodite rising from the waves - Aphrodite Anadyomene – initiated a long sequence of similar wetlook images.^[8]

See also[]

References[]

Further reading[]

• Alex Comfort and Susan Quilliam (2008). The New Joy of Sex. Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 9781845334291. See the "Clothes" and "Wet look" entries.

External links[]

• Media related to Wetlook at Wikimedia Commons

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