Everything about Agalmatophilia totally explained
Agalmatophilia (from the Greek
agalma 'statue', and
philia 'friendship, affinity') is the sexual attraction to a
statue,
doll,
mannequin or other similar figurative object. The attraction may include the desire for actual sexual contact with the objects, a fantasy of having sexual (or non-sexual) encounters with the animate or inanimate instances of the preferred objects, the act of watching encounters between the objects themselves, or sexual pleasure gained from thoughts of being transformed or transforming another into the preferred object. Agalmatophilia may also encompass
Pygmalionism (from the
myth of
Pygmalion) which describes a state of love for an object of one's own creation.
Clinical study
Agalmatophilia became a subject of clinical study with the publication of
Richard von Krafft-Ebbing's Psychopathia Sexualis. Ebbing recorded the case in 1877 of a gardener falling in love with a statue of the
Venus de Milo and being discovered while attempting coitus with it.
Fantasy, transformation and role-play
An important fantasy for some individuals is being transformed into the preferred object (such as a statue) and experiencing an associated state of immobility or paralysis. Such fantasies may be extended to roleplaying, and the self-coined term used by fetishists who enjoy being transformed appears to be "rubber doll" or "latex doll".
Representation in the arts
A number of famous art photographers have extensively featured sexualised life-sized dolls in their work, such as:
Hans Bellmer,
Bernard Faucon,
Helmut Newton,
Morton Bartlett, Katan Amano, Kishin Shinoyama, and Ryoichi Yoshida.
Agalmatophilia features prominently in
Luis Bunuel's
L'Âge d'or and in
Tarsem Singh's 2000
thriller movie
The Cell. The movie centres on a
serial killer named Carl Stargher who drowns his victims (all young women) and then bleaches their bodies so they resemble dolls. He then
masturbates while hanging himself above them. Later on in the movie there's a scene taking place inside his mind in which a psychiatrist finds a collection of grotesque, doll-like, corpse-like women inside display cases depicting scenes, while attached to crude machinery that jerks them about in
sadomasochistic sexual poses; how the killer perceives his victims.
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