OBJECTAPHILIA

OBJECTUM SEXUALITY

Object sexuality or objectum sexuality, is a pronounced emotional and often romantic desire towards developing significant relationships with particular inanimate objects. Those individuals with this expressed preference may feel strong feelings of attraction, love, and commitment to certain items or structures of their fixation. For some, sexual or even close emotional relationships with humans are incomprehensible. Some object-sexual individuals also often believe in animism, and sense reciprocation based on the belief that objects have souls, intelligence, and feelings, and are able to communicate. Contrary to sexual fetishism, the object to an OS person is viewed as their partner and not as a means to an end to enhance a human sexual relationship.

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After reading and watching endless documentaries surround the subject of objectum sexuality, i became fascinated with it, the idea that a minority of human beings could crave sexual intimacy with an inanimate object completely shocked me to my core. Although i couldn’t possibly get my head around how and why this is possible, i delved into it further, researching specific cases, looking at any artists who incorporate this type of emotional desire – the outcome was dismal.

I tended to find artists who incorporated a fetishistic desire within the concept of objectum sexuality, making it a completely sexual tendency instead portraying it as having an emotional connection with the inanimate object. At this point i decided to take my own personal practice in this direction, experimenting with possible ways to depict the sexual and emotional connect these people may feel towards their ‘lover’.

This is how i interpreted objectum sexuality to appear visually. The wall acts an emotionless base, it is the inanimate object the majority of us don’t think twice about on a daily basis. However, the wall becomes sexualized with the incorporation of a exaggerated female vagina, placed from the top to the bottom of the wall, it becomes blatant that the wall is now a sexual object for the viewer.