Agalmatophilia

The sexual attraction to statues, known as 'agalmatophilia', can also include “Pygmalionism” that is usually defined as a state of love for an object of one’s own creation. It seems to be prevalent in the Ancient World. Contextualized in ancient Greece, where different powers were ascribed to the divinities of great importance and embodied in statues and objects. The literary case of Pygmalion, recorded by Ovid in the Metamorphoses, plays a key role in this context as well. Here, the power of poetry allows the achievement of a happy end through the transformation of the statue into a real woman. The behaviour can manifest itself in many forms including actual sexual contact with the body-shaped objects, fantasies of having sexual encounters with the body-shaped objects, the act or sexual fantasy of watching encounters between the body-shaped objects themselves, and/or sexual arousal from thoughts of being transformed or transforming into a body-shaped object. It has also been claimed that for some agalmatophiles, the idea of immobility or loss of control can be arousing. For other agalmatophiles, there may also be fantasies about paralysis that may cross over into hypno-fetishism and/or robot fetishism.