Further clarifications

The word "sexual" is NOT a type of emotion. It's a physical desire, like an appetite for food. Emotions come with it, but it's not an emotion in and of itself. Love is an emotion, as are happiness and sadness. They go hand-in-hand with sex, and people engage in sex to get an emotional reaction, but this is NOT the same thing as being an emotion. People can want to engage in sex simply to get the pleasurable physical reaction that comes with it, and have no concern or love for the person that they have sex with. This clearly distinguishes sex from emotion. Sex, if mutually consensual, tends to carry a pleasant physical sensation regardless of what type of emotion manifests afterwards, be it happiness or depression.

And "spirituality" is not entirely an emotion. It transcends emotion, and it's an experience that is hard to put into words. Once again, it carries with it an emotional reaction, as it can lead to joy and happiness, but it's not quite the same thing as an emotion itself.

So I contend that the sexual, emotional, and spiritual aspects of the GLer's attraction base are interconnected but nevertheless seperate entities. A fetishist is someone who has a strong sexual desire for something bereft of the desire to have a full relationship along with it, and with no ability to experience that transcendant 'something' that comes with spirituality. In fact, regarding the spiritual aspect of our attraction, we even used to have a poster who wanted to build a new religion around the worship of GL.