Nonetheless, currently in the beginning, the thought of fetishism became controversial.

Max Muller condemned it in 1892 as pseudo-scientific and also argued that the belief in fetishism is it self a superstition that is extraordinaryBohme, 2014). Muller also advertised it was an “insult to intellect” that is human be:

… asked to trust that anytime within the reputation for the whole world a human being could have already been so dull as not to ever manage to distinguish between inanimate and animate beings, a difference by which perhaps the greater animals scarcely ever get wrong. (Muller, 1986, p. 73)