Agalmatophilia (from Ancient Greek ἄγαλμα (ágalma) 'statue' and φιλία (philía) 'love') is a paraphilia involving sexual attraction to a statue, doll, mannequin, or other similar figurative object. 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 transformed or transforming another into the preferred object.
Depending on the object of their desire, agalmatophiles can exhibit pygmalionism, the love for an object of one's own creation, named after the myth of Pygmalion, where a man falls in love with a statue he made of his ideal woman.[1] English poet Edmund Spenser wrote of sexual pygmalionism in some of his works.[2]
History
editAgalmatophilia was described in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century legal medicine.[3][clarification needed]
In 1977, a gardener was recorded to have fallen in love with a statue of the Venus de Milo, and was discovered attempting coitus with it.[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Ellis, 1927.
- ^ Gregerson, L.; Barton, A.; Orgel, S. (1995). The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic. Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. Cambridge University Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-521-46277-8. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ^ Janssen, Diederik F (2020-06-30). "From Libidines nefandæ to sexual perversions". History of Psychiatry. 31 (4): 421–439. doi:10.1177/0957154X20937254. ISSN 0957-154X. PMC 7534020. PMID 32605397.
- ^ Kick, 2005.
- Bibliography
- Alexandre, Elisabeth (2005). Des poupées et des hommes. Enquête sur l'amour artificiel (Dolls and Men - Investigation into Artificial Love). La Musardine. ISBN 2-84271-252-8.
- Dorfman, Elena (2005). Still Lovers. Channel Photographics. ISBN 0-9766708-1-X.
- Ellis, Havelock (1927). Studies in the Psychology of Sex. "Volume V: Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy". ISBN 1-4375-0927-4.
- Gross, Kenneth (1992). The Dream of the Moving Statue. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-2702-9.
- Kick, Russ (2005). Everything You Know about Sex Is Wrong. The Disinformation Company. ISBN 1-932857-17-6.
- Krafft-Ebing, Richard von (1906). Psychopathia Sexualis, with Special Reference to the Antipathic Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Forensic Study. ISBN 1-55970-425-X.
- Plumb, Suzie (Editor) (2005). Guys and Dolls: Art, Science, Fashion and relationships. Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery & Museums. ISBN 0-948723-57-2.
- 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. ISBN 90-420-2011-3.
- 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
edit- "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
- The Technosexuality, Pygmalionist & Mind Control Fetish FAQ 3.0
- 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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