Yes, of course such sexual fetishism has been around "forever."
But what the USA has done it turn a very small, almost unspoken about, socially-suppressed form of psychopathy - and turn it into a mass social and political movement, as (you point out) a form of street-agitation and red guard/brownshirt political force.
“Yes, of course such sexual fetishism has been around “forever.””
Victor Hanson talks about it back in ancient Greece and Rome. Of course, look what happened to those empires!