• moakley@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    So you really think the fetish came first? Because the word predates the modern fetish usage by like 800 years.

    It comes from the cuckoo bird, which engages in nest parasitism. It lays its eggs in another bird’s nest to be raised by birds that aren’t its parents.