Quirofilia: Taking a Fetish into Your Own Hands!

Do manicured hands and painted nails turn you on? Or do you prefer rough, veiny, hairy hands? If so, you may enjoy quirofilia – a fetish for hands, nails or fingers. Victoria Blisse scratches the surface of hand kink and explores some ways to practise with those pinkies!

Hands up if you think hands are sexy? You’re not the only one, there’s even a name for the fetish of being dedicated to digits – quirofilia. The world of movies and TV are filled with fodder for the hand fetish lovers, especially period dramas like Pride and Prejudice and Bridgerton where a hand brush is filled with sexual tension. So, what makes digits, palms and fingernails so enticing?

What is quirofilia exactly?

This fetish is all about hands – how they look and feel. Quirofilia is the umbrella term for hand fetish but there are a wide array of kinks and turn-ons that are covered here. Some people find fingers fascinating, or love the scratch of long, manicured fingernails. Others love the look of veiny and/or hairy hands, and sometimes even a raised open palm is what gets the blood racing.

Hand fetish: what's the appeal?

There are so many different things that people like about hands. Sometimes it’s a visual-based arousal. The sight of a big hand, juicy veins, well-manicured hands, or brightly-painted nails might be all it takes to get you going.

But maybe it’s all about the action: licking fingers, holding hands, or tracing patterns on an open palm are all things that might get you dizzy with desire. Instead, it could be that you love a good fingering or a hot handjob to indulge your quirofiilia.


Red alert: some hand kink fans get turned on by painted nails

It is possible to have a hand fetish no matter your gender. Although sometimes people will refer to a love of masculine or feminine hand types, this is merely a perception, and whatever your hands look like or what hand type you like, quirofilia is for you.

With 17,000 touch receptors in your hands, they are incredibly sensitive, so it makes sense that people find them so incredibly sensual!

Fingernail fetish and hand kink

One particularly popular part of quirofilia is fingernail fetish. Fingernails fascinate people, from the length of them to the sharpness. Some people love short nails, whilst others swoon for long nails. Sharpened and pointed or rounded and curved, the way a nail is shaped impacts how it feels on someone else. 
 

“Quirofilia is the umbrella term for hand fetish. Some people find fingers fascinating, or love the scratch of long, manicured fingernails. Others love the look of veiny and/or hairy hands.”

Fingernails are wonderfully versatile and easy to incorporate into your play. You can gently tease your partner by running them over their sensitive areas such as nipples or inner thighs. If you want to add a hint of pain, use your nails to dig in and scratch as you have sex or as part of a sensual scene. Sharpen the effect by dimming the sub’s other senses by using noise-canceling headphones and/or a blindfold.

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How do kinksters practise quirofilia?

“I have a kink for holding hands very delicately with just tips of fingers first and then slowly interlinking. All whilst staring into the other person’s eyes. All done really slowly and quietly. Then just holding in that position.”  That comes from one fetish.com member in our Forum hand fetish thread. 

Scratch your kinkitch with quirofilia fetish

So, would that be enough to satisfy your hand fetish? Here are some other ways quirofilia be incorporated into your play:
 

• Sucking fingers A delicious moment of foreplay or licking your lover’s juices off you after you’ve used your hands to pleasure them. Sucking fingers gets the mind and the pulse racing.
   
• Spicy photos Take pictures of your hands and send them to your lover. Maybe you’ve just painted your nails or you have your nails dug into your own thigh; get them going with some pics.
   
• Grabbing and choking A hand around the throat can be a visceral reminder of who’s in charge and choking during a possible breath play scenario shows the power of that hand.
   
• Fingering and hand jobs Use your digits to bring your partner to the brink of orgasm. And if they’ve been good, maybe let them come all over your hand. A quirofilia dream come true!
   
• Fisting It might not be for everyone but fisting is also a way to show the power and control of a hand.

The final fetish: quirofilia hand kink

You’ve got to hand it to them. No really, you have to hand it to them (!) because a hand fetishist is desperate for your paws all over them! Quirofilia is such a fun fetish to play with; it can stretch from the most wholesome of actions such as holding pinkies or squeezing an arm as you walk together, to extremes of BDSM play with choking and fisting. Fingers in pies takes on a whole other meaning when you’re into quirofilia! • 

Victoria Blisse was an erotic author and sex-positive Reverend. She helped shape fetish.com and FET from the very beginning and we're eternally grateful for her passion and creativity. Sadly, she passed away in January 2024. We hope that whenever her articles are read, she'll be honored.
 

Have you had an exciting hand fetish experience you want to share? Take a moment to write it up on the fetish.com forums and see how many other hand fans find it hot too.


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