I've never heard this term anywhere but in Bree's angry remarks to Klute.

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Tahhh — 19 years ago(November 02, 2006 06:59 PM)

I've never heard this term anywhere but in Bree's angry remarks to Klute.
What, exactly, does a man who is a "button freak" do to achieve his gratification?

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Jenni_deWoolf_129 — 18 years ago(June 13, 2007 03:20 PM)

I've often wondered about that myself. I mean, I've heard of a lot of different things over the last thirty something years, but "button-freak" was a new one for me, too. I'm gonna go google it and see what I come up with. If it's anything interesting, I'll let you know.

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Jenni_deWoolf_129 — 18 years ago(June 13, 2007 03:24 PM)

Ok, a check of google (including web sites and groups, etc.) produced nothing. All I found were a bunch of needlework sites. lol Sorry I couldn't help. Maybe someone else will come along and have a clue.

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L0GAN5 — 18 years ago(June 13, 2007 04:20 PM)

I think she was implying he had a naval fetish (as in belly button).

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bill-520 — 18 years ago(November 30, 2007 05:53 PM)

My guess is a fetish connected with garments that feature a long line of buttons placed in a row along the opening that enhance the erotic sensation of slowly undressing someone.

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Volvican — 17 years ago(August 22, 2008 07:59 AM)

I assumed she meant someone that liked playing mind games - finding and pushing people's figurative 'buttons'.

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faithcr48-1 — 17 years ago(January 18, 2009 08:44 PM)

good question! my immediate thought was drugs, maybe peyote buttons. i always remember in the anonymous diary, "go ask alice",(which came out in the early 70's, i think?) they play a game & say, "button, button, who's got the button?" & that's the person(s) in the group who got the button/drug put in their drink.
i know, i have a strange memory, do not know why i remember that? it's just a guess, tho'

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poetcomic1 — 12 years ago(May 13, 2013 10:11 PM)

You made me curious. If you Goggle 'Button Fetish' you get a whole world of navel fetish sites. I suppose you would find sub-categories and sub-sub-categories of that too such as gay navel fetishists and it all gets very depressing.

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xdayton — 10 years ago(April 07, 2015 07:15 PM)

OK, all these years later, I'll take a shot at this. I think "button freak" does indeed refer to old-fashioned ladies undergarments that featured lots of buttons to unbutton. Sort of like asking someone if they liked fishnet stockings.

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Buttonfreak — 5 years ago(May 18, 2020 10:39 PM)

If people are still wondering: a button freak is someone who cannot resist a "do not". Like: a "do not push this button" warning, will have the opposite effect on this person and trigger him/her to push it.

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TaraDeS — 1 month ago(February 04, 2026 09:41 PM)

Buttonfreak May 19, 2020 12:39 AM
Member since May 18, 2020
If people are still wondering: a button freak is someone who cannot resist a "do not". Like: a "do not push this button" warning, will have the opposite effect on this person and trigger him/her to push it.
Never heard of that fetish.
But it's nice that the poster adapted its username to the thread.