Wetlook

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The expression "phat dipping" refers to the act of jumping or diving clothed.{{Cite web |url=http://wackywet.com/wetforum/Advice/phat-dipping.html |title=Phat Dipping - Swim in Your Clothes for Fun |website=wackywet.com |publisher=Interaliant |access-date=December 31, 2014}} 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.{{Cite web |last1=McLaughlin |first1=Rhett |last2=Neal |first2=Link |title=Phatdippin' Rap |url=https://vimeo.com/3973469 |access-date=April 5, 2013 |language=en}} The neologism became popular,{{Cite web |url=http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=phat%20dipping |title=phat dipping |date=March 25, 2009 |website=www.urbandictionary.com |access-date=April 5, 2013}} especially in the United States due to the contest organized upon the release of the song inviting viewers to upload their own version.{{Cite web |first=Arthur |last=Chappel |url=http://arthurchappell.me.uk/phat-dipping.htm |title=PHAT-DIPPING – IS IT JUST WETLOOK? |website=arthurchappel.me.uk |access-date=April 5, 2013}}

"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.{{Cite web |title=Swimming fully clothed |url=http://www.swim-teach.com/swimming-fully-clothed.html |access-date=April 5, 2013}}{{Cite web |title=What is Wetlook? Fetish, cultural movement or hobby? |url=http://swimmingfullyclothed.com/docs/art03.html |access-date=April 5, 2013}}

The term "wetlook" refers to the sight of wet clothes clinging to the skin.A testimony "Practice of wet," on [http://www.za-gay.org/forum/viewtopic/5759/pratique-du-wet/0/ www.za-gay.org/forum/].

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

Wetters for whom the manner and conditions of getting wet are important, plunging them into deep emotional states.{{Cite web |date=July 1, 2000 |title=Wetlook paraphilia - aspects of a sexual variation |url=http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/P_WETLOOK.HTM |access-date=April 12, 2013 |website=www2.hu-berlin.de |publisher=Humboldt University of Berlin's Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology}}{{Cite web |title=Introduction |url=http://www.njco.de/html/introduction.html |id=njco_intro_english}}

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

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

Wetters who enjoy getting wet slowly.

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,Alex Comfort, The Joy of Sex (London, 1972), pp. 21–22 stating that if your lover "likes you to look like a cross between a snake and a seal, wear what he gives you".Alex Comfort, The Joy of Sex (London, 1972), p. 23

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

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

In Western culture{{Where|date=November 2024}}, swimming fully clothed is sometimes prohibited in public places{{Cite web |title=In Defense of the Wetlook Fetish |url=http://www.arthurchappell.me.uk/wetlookdefence.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106031651/http://www.arthurchappell.me.uk/wetlookdefence.htm |archive-date=January 6, 2014 |access-date=April 6, 2013 |website=www.arhurchappel.me.uk}} or considered socially unacceptable.{{Cite web |date=November 24, 2008 |title=Intentionally Soaked Fashion - Swimming Fully Clothed (GALLERY) |url=http://www.trendhunter.com/Cowbag?ModPagespeed=noscript |access-date=April 4, 2013 |website=www.trendhunter.com |publisher=Trend Hunter}}{{Better citation|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=November 2024}}

In Denmark and Germany, wetlook has become a minor cultural movement. Meeting groups{{Cite web |url=http://www.wetfans-luenen.de |title=Nass mit Spaß in Lünen |website=www.wetfans-luenen.de |publisher=Radöli |access-date=April 6, 2013}} and associations organize events.{{When|date=November 2024|reason=this article seems to have been untouched for about a decade.}} The annual end-of-summer beach party in Borgentreich{{Cite web |url=http://www.dtoday.de/regionen/lokal-panorama_artikel,-16-Beach-Party-im-Borgentreicher-Freibad-_arid,179144.html |title=16. Beach Party im Borgentreicher Freibad |date=August 8, 2012 |website=www.dtoday.de |publisher={{lang|en|Deutschland Today}} |access-date=April 5, 2013}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.nw-news.de/owl/kreis_hoexter/warburg/warburg/?em_cnt=6970653 |title=BORGENTREICH: Im Anzug baden gehen |date=August 20, 2012 |website=www.nw-news.de |access-date=April 5, 2013}} was a major event for wetters, and some people travel hundreds of kilometres to participate. Similar events take place regularly.{{Cite web |url=http://www.gaeubote.de/index.php?&kat=10&artikel=109852656&red=24 |title=Klamottenschwimmen im Freibad Gärtringen |date=September 17, 2011 |website=www.gaeubote.de |publisher={{Lang|de|text=die Herreberger Zeitung}} |access-date=April 4, 2013}}File:US Navy 080607-N-5191L-007 Participants of the 15 Annual Mud Run cross the final challenge after encountering several.jpgNew 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".Quoted in L. Cottrell, Queens of the Pharaohs (London 1966), p. 75

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• Aquaphilia (fetish)
• Gunge
• Salirophilia
• Wet and messy fetishism
• Wet sari scene
• Wet T-shirt contest

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• {{Cite book |title=The New Joy of Sex |author=Alex Comfort and Susan Quilliam |year=2008 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley |isbn=9781845334291}} See the "Clothes" and "Wet look" entries.

• {{Commons category-inline|Bathing with regular clothes|Wetlook}}

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