"It began quite precisely in 1887, when the city was fetishised and its face turned resolutely to the past.
With the knives and bullet-time camera work, the deaths might even be said to be fetishised.
The pre-internet age has been fetishised.
Locke's version is fetishised, covered with chains, charms, horse brasses, masks and jewels.
Why, then, has this now sublimely useless commodity been fetishised to such an extent?
Christy's delicate feet are fetishised by women who seem far more muscular than any man in the village.
"Rape and torture, let alone the murder of women, shouldn't be fetishised into an intriguing murder mystery," she says.
They are cold in winter and sweaty and nylon-y in summer, plus they continue to be fetishised by porn directors and pervy old men who shout obscenities at you on the way home.
From Athena's Tennis Girl poster to celebrated but undecorated pin-up Anna Kournikova, girls in tennis whites are fetishised, their bellowing grunts the subject of flip sexism.
In truth, no matter how much it is fetishised by the likes of the Bishop of Exeter, women often find that being a "full-time mother" is tough.
