Agalmatophilia () is a
paraphilia
Paraphilia (previously known as sexual perversion and sexual deviation) is the experience of intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, situations, fantasies, behaviors, or individuals. It has also been defined as sexual interest in anything o ...
involving
sexual attraction
Sexual attraction is attraction on the basis of sexual desire or the quality of arousing such interest. Sexual attractiveness or sex appeal is an individual's ability to attract other people sexually, and is a factor in sexual selection or ma ...
to a
statue
A statue is a free-standing sculpture in which the realistic, full-length figures of persons or animals are carved or cast in a durable material such as wood, metal or stone. Typical statues are life-sized or close to life-size; a sculpture t ...
,
doll
A doll is a model typically of a human or humanoid character, often used as a toy for children. Dolls have also been used in traditional religious rituals throughout the world. Traditional dolls made of materials such as clay and wood are foun ...
,
mannequin
A mannequin (also called a dummy, lay figure, or dress form) is a doll, often articulated, used by artists, tailors, dressmakers, window dressers and others, especially to display or fit clothing and show off different fabrics and textiles ...
, or other similar figurative object. 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 transformed or transforming another into the preferred object. Agalmatophilia overlaps Pygmalionism, the love for an object of one's own creation, named after the myth of
Pygmalion. Agalmatophilia is a form of
object sexuality.
Clinical study
Agalmatophilia is a twentieth-century term for a medicalization of statue-eroticization widely attested in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century legal medicine. Actual historical cases are few. Krafft-Ebing recorded in 1877 the case of a gardener falling in love with a statue of the ''
Venus de Milo
The ''Venus de Milo'' (; el, Αφροδίτη της Μήλου, Afrodíti tis Mílou) is an Ancient Greece, ancient Greek sculpture that was created during the Hellenistic art, Hellenistic period, sometime between 150 and 125 BC. It is one of ...
'' and being discovered attempting
coitus
Sexual intercourse (or coitus or copulation) is a sexual activity typically involving the insertion and thrusting of the penis into the vagina for sexual pleasure or reproduction.Sexual intercourse most commonly means penile–vaginal penetrat ...
with it.
[Kick, 2005.]
See also
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Doll fetish
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Gynoid
A gynoid, or fembot, is a feminine humanoid robot. Gynoids appear widely in science fiction film and art. As more realistic humanoid robot design becomes technologically possible, they are also emerging in real-life robot design.
Name
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Human furniture
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Living statue
A living statue is a performer who poses as a statue or mannequin, usually with realistic statue-like makeup, Performances are commonly on the street busking but may also be at events where the artist is paid. A living statue attraction, as a pe ...
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Objectum
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Robot fetishism
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Sex doll
A sex doll (also love doll, fuck doll or blowup doll) is a type of anthropomorphic sex toy in the size and shape of a sexual partner. The sex doll may consist of an entire body, or just a head, pelvis, or other body part (vagina, anus, mouth, pe ...
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Sexual objectification
Sexual objectification is the act of treating a person solely as an object of sexual desire. Objectification more broadly means treating a person as a commodity or an object without regard to their personality or dignity. Objectification is mos ...
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Tableau vivant
A (; often shortened to ; plural: ), French language, French for "living picture", is a static scene containing one or more actors or models. They are stationary and silent, usually in costume, carefully posed, with props and/or scenery, and ...
References
;Bibliography
* Alexandre, Elisabeth (2005). ''Des poupées et des hommes. Enquête sur l'amour artificiel'' (''Dolls and Men - Investigation into Artificial Love''). La Musardine. .
* Dorfman, Elena (2005). ''Still Lovers''. Channel Photographics. .
* Ellis, Havelock (1927). ''Studies in the Psychology of Sex''. "Volume V: Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy". .
* Gross, Kenneth (1992). ''The Dream of the Moving Statue''. Cornell University Press. .
* Kick, Russ (2005). ''Everything You Know about Sex Is Wrong''. The Disinformation Company. .
* Krafft-Ebing, Richard von (1906). ''Psychopathia Sexualis, with Special Reference to the Antipathic Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Forensic Study''. .
* Plumb, Suzie (Editor) (2005). ''Guys and Dolls: Art, Science, Fashion and relationships''. Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery & Museums. .
* Scobie A, Taylor J. (January 1975). ''Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences'': Vol 11, Issue 1: "Agalmatophilia, the statue syndrome." Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
* Simmons, Laurence (2006). ''Freud's Italian Journey''. Rodopi. .
* Wenk, Silke (1989). "Pygmalions Wahlverwandtschaften. Die Rekonstruktion des Schöpfermythos im nachfaschistischen Deutschland" IN: ''Konstruktionen von Männlichkeit und Weiblichkeit in Kunst und Kunstgeschichte''. Berlin.
* White, M. J. (November 1978). ''Journal of Sex Research''; Vol. 14, Issue 4: "The Statue Syndrome: Perversion? Fantasy? Anecdote?".
External links
"Just Like a Woman"- Salon.com article describing cultural phenomenon of RealDolls
"Real Dolls: Love in the Age of Silicone"- original, more detailed version of the Salon article
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ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080418080332/http://www.la.com/movies/10291657.html Lars and the Real Girl at IMDB.A delusional young guy strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet.
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