Partialism is
sexual interest with an exclusive focus on a specific part of the body other than the genitals. Partialism is categorized as
Sexual fetishism in the
DSM-5 of the
American Psychiatric Association only classified as a disorder if it causes significant psychosocial distress for the person or has detrimental effects on important areas of their life. In the
DSM-IV, it was considered a separate
paraphilia (
not otherwise specified), but was merged into fetishistic disorder by the DSM-5. Individuals with partialism sometimes describe the anatomy of interest to them as having equal or greater
erotic attraction for them as do the genitals.