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Object sexuality or objectophilia is a group of paraphilias characterized by sexual or romantic attraction focused on particular inanimate objects. Individuals with this attraction may have strong feelings of love and commitment to certain items or structures of their fixation.
Paraphilias are sexual interests in objects, situations, or individuals that are atypical. The American Psychiatric Association, in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fifth Edition (DSM), draws a distinction between paraphilias (which it describes as atypical sexual interests) and paraphilic disorders (which additionally require the experience of distress, impairment in functioning, and/or ...
Agalmatophilia is a form of object sexuality. The attraction may include a desire for actual sexual contact with the object, a fantasy of having sexual (or non-sexual) encounters with an animate or inanimate instance of the preferred object, the act of watching encounters between such objects, or sexual pleasure gained from thoughts of being ...
Objects don’t have feelings, but some people treat them like they do. It’s called anthropomorphizing, and it’s natural to do to objects and animals, experts say.
A paraphilia is an experience of recurring or intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, places, situations, fantasies, behaviors, or individuals. [3] [4] It has also been defined as a sexual interest in anything other than a legally consenting human partner.
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Mechanophilia (or mechaphilia [1]) is a paraphilia involving a sexual attraction to machines such as bicycles, motorcycles, [2] cars, [3] [4] helicopters, [5] and airplanes. [ 6 ] Mechanophilia is treated as a crime in some nations with perpetrators being placed on a sex-offenders' register after prosecution. [ 7 ]
Doll fetishism is a sexual fetish in which an individual is attracted to dolls and doll like objects such as figurines. [1] The attraction may include the desire for actual sexual contact with a doll, a fantasy of a sexual encounter with an animate or inanimate doll, encounters between dolls themselves, or sexual pleasure gained from thoughts of being transformed or transforming another into a ...