Criminologist: Help those with unusual fetishes

A CENTRE to treat sex addicts with unusual fetishes should be set up, criminologist Kamal Afendi Hashim told Harian Metro.

“It’s not only those addicted to alcohol, glue sniffing or drugs want to return to the right path – even those addicted to unusual sexual behaviours want out of their problem.

“There are those among them who want help but do not know how to get it.

“I feel that the proposal should be considered by the government,” he told the daily in response to those suffering a panty fetish.

He said there are those who use specific objects such as women’s clothing to act out their sexual fantasies.

The daily reported that there are men who have the tendency to steal women’s undergarments.

A woman in her 30s, known only as Shira, told the daily that she broke off with her boyfriend after discovering that he was stealing her undergarments.

She said he admitted that he has had a fetish for women’s undergarments since his schooling days.

The daily also included five recent cases involving the theft of women’s undergarments since March last year.

> Kosmo! reported that Nur Imran Hasmadi, 25, from Marang, has been working as a part-time mobile barber over the past four months to save up for his wedding.

Nur Imran, who works at a hair salon in Marang, began offering haircuts to visitors on Fridays and weekends at the Pulau Kekabu recreation site in April.

He added that he would only pack his equipment, a canvas and a plastic stool in his car to set up his mobile salon by the beach.

He said he charges RM10 per haircut and is saving up for his wedding in December.

Nur Imran said he gets about 10 customers every week.

“I did not attend any formal hair-cutting classes but learned to cut hair from YouTube when I was in school.

“I started off by offering free haircuts to friends before working at several salons to improve my skills after finishing school,” he added.

● The above article is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.