agalmatophilia

Agalmatophilia () is a paraphilia involving sexual attraction to a statue, doll, mannequin, or other similar figurative object. Agalmatophilia is a form of object sexuality.

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Medical condition.name: Agalmatophilia
Medical condition.synonyms: Pygmalionism
Medical condition.image: Sandy sex doll or poseable mannequin.jpeg
Medical condition.caption: Sex doll posed on a couch
Medical condition.specialty: Psychology, Psychiatry, Sexology, Fetishism
Medical condition.symptoms: Sexual attraction to statues, mannequins, or dolls
Medical condition.complications: Social isolation, dysfunction, legal implications (in rare cases)
Medical condition.types: Object sexuality, Erotic target location error
Medical condition.causes: Unknown; theories include early imprinting, fantasy attachment
Medical condition.risks: May co-occur with other paraphilias or autosexuality traits
Medical condition.differential: Objectophilia, robot fetishism, autogynephilia

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Agalmatophilia () 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.