The adult comb collector smashes taboo with each find, personally trangressing his boundaries of acceptable and unacceptable behavior and before the eyes of many, immediately confronting the social stigma as well. It is exhilarating to break taboo . Comb collectors speak of the sublime feeling of the taboo flowing out and being replaced by a sene of accomplishment on the occasion of each and every Lid. One can appreciate this exhileration privately and personally or take advantage of the public nature of experience and escalate it through and into exhibitionism. In either case, the collector takes on the responsibility of public behavior contrary to the norm and risks social stigmatization.
Fetishism confronts the collector with a number of possibilities .
Given that the decision to collect combs is made prior to and independently of the development of any comb created fetish , one may assume that collecting is the result of a rational decision. Traditional psychological technique and terminology may serve to describe the collector's actions and attitude. However, since his interest in combs , at least initially, results from a decision, the collector has the option to determine the nature of the manifestations of his interest. He is able to experiment with himself and a variety of phenomena so as to transform the results of the decision into the manifestations of a condition such as fetish . Although such a condition would be a potent motivator, this potency is not an immediate result of the decision.