Fantastic Metropolis

The clinical description of two hundred and sixty cases of car sexual fetishism

RG Heseltine
Barrow-Maudsley Hospital, London

This study surveys the transfer and discharge register of a large London teaching hospital over 12 months and presents data on its 260 cases of clinical Car Sexual Fetishism (CSF). Of this total, 4 were diagnosed as primary psychopaths, 183 as secondary psychopaths and 48 as dissocial psychopaths. The remaining 25 patients suffered from a variety of moderate to serious mood disorders. An attempt was made to answer two questions: (1) What is the cause of CSF? (2) What are the clinical problems presented by CSF? They have more to do with the perception of fetishes as personally or socially unacceptable than with ‘objective’ restrictions placed on sexual activity. The data have not enabled any conclusions to be drawn about the origin of this particular fetishist syndrome. Certainly, a third or more of the sample also had moderate to extreme fetishes for clothes or rubber or rubber items, or wore or stole a fetish or fetishes; but this information is insufficient to allow one to assume that these patients had something significant in common, and leaves open the question of what more precisely each individual was attracted to and why.

The Review of Psychiatry 430

BBC reporter outside Old Bailey, London

“...uproar when, fifteen minutes into being cross examined, Hatfield began rocking on his heels, loudly and continuously impersonating the sound of a speeding car. This continued for several minutes before the he was taken to the cells. Returned to the dock later that afternoon, Hatfield showed no emotion as the judge, Mr. Justice Fennerman, pronounced sentence. Describing him as a dangerous psychopath, Justice Fennerman ordered that Hatfield be indefinitely detained in a secure unit at Her Majesty’s Pleasure. Asked if he wished to say anything, Hatfield replied in a loud monotone that he had finally become the car he had always wanted to be.”

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