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i think in general conversation, any compulsion or hang-up a person has about a body part, object, physical characteristic or sex act can be called a fetish.
but even the "less general" people, like shrinks and sexologists, have some disagreement about the terms sexual fetishism (different from just plain fetishism) and paraphilia, i.e. whether it can only be an inanimate object, a practice that is just considered unusual in said fetishists culture, something that must be used if the fetishists is going to feel any sort of gratification, something that is harmful or dysfunctional, or whether it's just that little bit of extra kink some of us crave, whether it needs to be a hang-up for a long period of time, say longer than a year, or if it can just be something we get off on only for a little while, etc.
in the strictest sense, definitions of (just plain)fetishism even apply to religion, idolatry, totemism, vodoo … there's even commodity fetishism (a term karl marx coined as a sort of ironic description of the social importance capitalist societies place on property and other inanimate objects.)
anyway, we’re just a bunch of pervs shootin the shit so, speaking for myself, i think fetish is a perfectly acceptable term to describe anything that gets you off just that little bit more than the "normal" genital stimulation. this is just my two cents, not meant to be confrontational.
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