Happy Friday everyone! Since there are so many paths you can take in the world of kink, I was a little stumped on what fetish to write about today. However, a couple nights ago, I watched My Strange Addiction. The most interesting character by far is Davecat, an agalmatophiliac who has lived with his silicone partner, Sidore, for over a decade. This inspired me to write about his world in today's post.
Today's Fetish: Agalmatophilia
Agalmatophilia consists of a sexual attraction to life-like humanoid replicas, such as mannequins, statues and/or dolls. It is a sub-category of objectophilia, which is the sexual attraction to inanimate objects (but that's a subject for another day). These fetishists can be aroused either by making love to the objects or by becoming the object themselves, which leads to many dressing like rubber/latex dolls.
Pygmalionism is considered a branch of Agalmatophilia, which is when artists fall in love with their creation (most common: a statue). This sub-fetish gets its name from the Greek artist Pygmalion. Other extensions include Robot and doll fetishes (I'll also talk about them another day).
Agalmatophilia is actually quite a popular fetish, with exposure ranging from television, movies, internet celebrities, and even Greek mythology as mentioned above. Its history is vast, and there is a plethora of information on this subject, which made it very fun for me to research. This is one of a handful of fetishes that has made it into mainstream media.
Agalmatophilia in film:
- L'Age d'Or: A French surreal film written by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, in which a woman takes out her sexual frustrations on a statue by sucking on a statue's toe.
- The Cell: In this 2000 film, Jennifer Lopez plays a child psychologist that goes deep into the mind of a degenerate serial killer to find his next victim. After murdering his victims, he bleaches their hair and skin in order to make them look like dolls, then masturbates to them hanging on racks. There is also a scene in which Lopez's character visits the killer's torture chamber, while in his mind, and finds a gallery of women tied in bondage, where they move and contort like broken dolls. The Cell is actually really interesting; one of my favorite films if only for its imagery. If you get the chance, definitely watch it.
- The Ten: This movie takes a look at the ten commandments in a fresh and funny way. During "Thou Shalt Not Steal", Winona Ryder's character falls in love and has sex with a ventriloquist dummy during her honeymoon.
- Mannequin: Mannequin debuted no. 1 at the box office in 1987 when it opened; now it's a cult classic. Kim Cattrall stars in this flick as a mannequin whose creator falls desperately in love with her before they run off and live happily ever after. A perfect example of Pygmalionism as well.
- Lars and the Real Girl: The most recent film to come out on this subject, Lars and the Real Girl, tells the story of Lars and his "RealDoll" partner Bianca. In the end, Lars chooses to fall in love with an Organik (the term Agalmatophiliacs give to living partners), but Bianca served as a faithful companion during most of the film.
Agalmatophilia in television:
- My Strange Addiction: This show documents the strange secret, or not so secret, obsessions and lives of people. As I mentioned above, Davecat lives with his partner of over a decade, Sidore, and their newest partner, Elena.
- Nip/Tuck: In season 2, during one of Sean and Julia's many break-ups, Sean is drunk, lonely and in the possession of Kimber's LoveDoll. The show is pretty graphic and it shows Sean having sex with the doll. However, you may argue if this is Agalmatophilia since he envisions Kimber during the entire tryst.
Agalmatophilia in other media:
- Comedy website, cracked.com, writes about how this fetish is quickly taking over.
- KotaKoti and Valeria Lukyanova have achieved international fame by looking like living dolls.
- Pipedream Products has an entire collection of blow-up dolls ready for the picking. And yes, we carry all of them in the store. Just-in Beaver is my favorite.
So that pretty much wraps it up for Agalmatophilia folks; I warned you there was a lot of info on it! Now, for those of you who think that this fetish is only for the Forever Alone:
Even though nothing beats the real thing, wouldn't you like to have sex with someone, just once, without having to cuddle with or force small talk afterwards? You just get in, get off and get out.
For those of you who are curious as to where you could get one of these silicone señoritas just visit their website. Admit it, you're curious. I won't say anything.
Now go get your kink on!
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