Objectophilia

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There is video after video on You Tube with those acting as if they are normal people talking about Ojbectum Sexuality as being a normal orientation. But, you can read comment after comment just how cruel YT members are with some even threatening these people. In reality they are also Autistic or have Aspergers. In the case of Erika Eiffel, she was diagnosed with some serious psychological problems while she was in the Air Force in California after attacking another person with her sword and she refused to part with it because she was in love with it. Therefore she was discharged from the Air Force

After a lot of soul searching I can't help but believe Objectum Sexuality is an objectophia that is among many of our traits. I'm not saying it is a bad thing because it isn't since it gives us who has this trait comfort and fulfill our needs. This particular trait keep some of us from going crazy if we didn't have it. However we need to put this particular trait into perspective and call it what it really is and that is Objectophilia, like some of the other harmless philias some of us have.

So my questions to everyone are what is your take on objectophilia? Do any of you have it? Also do any of you have any other harmless philias?

I can have strong attachment to objects, but I don't think I'd call it objectophilia in my case. I do not "love" these objects (currently, the bass in my avatar is the only object to which I have a strong attachment). I feel more like we are comrades than anything.

(sorry in advance if this turns into me going off on special interest stuff for too long and in too much detail - I do have a point at the end)
But out of all the music gear I carry around - the thing I worry about getting stolen most is the bass, even though it is literally of the least monetary value of any of the gear I have, and the most replaceable seeing as the model is still made. My synth would be expensive to replace - I'd also be upgrading if I replaced it, though. My main gigging guitar, a 1990 Gibson Les Paul, is the most expensive and most difficult piece to replace - it is also a ridiculously good sounding guitar due to its age (guitars, at least good ones, age like fine wines), it's composition (ebony fingerboard is a big part of that - it's harder to get those these days and modern LP's aren't really made with them unless it's fingerboard blanks they've had saved up - Gibson has no more legal supply for them as far as I am aware). It just sounds really good and it would be difficult and expensive to replace - not all vintage guitars sound good, even if they're the same model, and you can't just walk into a music store to buy them. (also many modern ones don't age as well because they have a new type of coating that seals the wood too much). I don't worry about my amps and speaker cabinets being stolen usually, simply because they would be quite difficult to walk away with.

It's not that I don't worry about all the other stuff getting stolen - it's just that this bass is the least valuable and most replaceable instrument I take with me regularly, yet it's the first thing I think about when I worry about my gear being stolen.

I also feel like objects have personalities and emotions. Although I know that this is illogical and that they do not really have them - I still feel as though they do and I can't help that. I don't need an attachment to an object to feel it has emotion and personality - but I don't feel bad when I throw away wrappers or anything like that.

Nice to see someone bring up this topic. I know some OS persons and they all have some form of ASD. As for You Tube comments being overly negative, that's quite customary of unenlightened individuals. Remember back in the 1950s where they had ad campaigns about homosexuality being contagious? We are not terribly far removed from that as a society...

To answer the question about any paraphilias: I don't have any that I'm aware of. I do enjoy some seemingly odd forms of sensory input, but there is nothing sexual about it.

Hmm. I have a very strong attachment to the things that I collect. I would be very upset if I had to part with them and would never do it willingly but I'm not sure how to describe the emotional connection there. I certainly wouldn't say it's sexual, a romantic desire or the same kind of love I feel for people.

I'm very attached to my things I collect relating to my interests. I also have claustrophilia. I love being shut in a closed space. I used to spend hours in the closet when I was little and could still fit in there.

One of my perseverative behaviors is tapping something on my face or hand. I have had this behavior since I was a child and my mom taught me to only do it in private places like home in my room because she could never break me of the habit.

I get very attached to the objects I use for this perseverative behavior, but there is nothing sexual about it. The behavior helps to calm me and I sometimes worry that people will throw these objects, usually a broken off pencil, away. I often hide them if someone is coming over to my house and will be in the room with them so they don't get tossed out thinking the broken pencil is trash. I will use the same object for months or years.

Surprised I'm even admitting this.

It's amazing the things one can say on here that one would never say anywhere else! I wonder if that's what the deal is with my special pillow. He has a name, but I'm keeping it to myself. Most of the time I'd rather cuddle with him than with my husband. He never pesters me when I'm not in the mood and doesn't snore and fart in his sleep.

When see the suffix -philia I think sex. I didn't look up its true meaning, but that's what I think especially when I see words like necrophilia which is sex with dead people.

That said, I see the word objectophilia and I think it's about sex with objects. So, like, instead of driving my car I'm humping it? Instead of playing my piano 'm humping it? s that what objectophilia is?

There was an episode of Family Guy where Peter Griffin walks into a marriage counselors office with his wife, a sandwich. Unfortunately, before they could resolve their marriage issues, Peter ate his wife.

I guess, to a certain extent, a dildo, vibrator or blow-up doll would be considered objectophilia, no? I guess that's okay. But if I call my dildo my wife, that's a problem.

I collect toys and believe that they have their own thoughts and feelings. I first began to believe that after watching Toy Story for the first time as a child, and I've never quite shaken it off despite the logical part of my brain telling me otherwise. I always buy toys whenever I go to the thrift store because I feel like they are waiting to be adopted and are sad when people don't pick them. I think that they are happy when they are well taken care of, such as being washed, cuddled (if the are plush), clothed (if they are dolls), talked to, played music, and photographed. I also think that they must feel very disappointed or even angry with me whenever I don't feel like displaying them anymore (either due to lack of space or because they are no longer relevant to my interests) and put them in storage.

My latest special interest is the Monster High franchise, which is mostly a line of dolls (though I have gotten to know my favorites through watching the online series). I have just received my first doll, Ghoulia the zombie girl, in the mail today. I must say that she is strikingly beautiful in person (photos do not do her justice), and the love for her I had developed through watching the online series has multiplied tenfold now that she's actually here with me.

However, despite my sentiments towards inanimate objects, I am not sexually attracted to them. I do have a paraphilia/sexual fetish that would be classified as "exclusive" (in other words, almost nothing else arouses me besides it), but I'd rather not discuss it.