Philosophy Department, The University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA.
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
Arch Sex Behav. 2022 May;51(4):2117-2133. doi: 10.1007/s10508-021-02281-5. Epub 2022 May 10.
Objectophilia (also known as objectum-sexuality) involves romantic and sexual attraction to specific objects. Objectophiles often develop deep and enduring emotional, romantic, and sexual relations with specific inanimate (concrete or abstract) objects such as trains, bridges, cars, or words. The determinants of objectophilia are poorly understood. The aim of this paper is to examine the determining factors of objectophilia. We examine four hypotheses about the determinants of objectophilia (pertaining to fetishism, synesthesia, cross-modal mental imagery, and autism) and argue that the most likely determining factors of objectophilia are the social and non-social features of autism. Future studies on the determinants of objectophilia could enhance our understanding and potentially lessen the marginalization experienced by objectophiles.
恋物癖（也称为物体性爱）涉及对特定物体的浪漫和性吸引。恋物癖者通常与特定的无生命物体（具体或抽象）发展出深厚而持久的情感、浪漫和性关系，例如火车、桥梁、汽车或单词。恋物癖的决定因素尚不清楚。本文旨在探讨恋物癖的决定因素。我们研究了关于恋物癖决定因素的四个假设（与恋物癖、联觉、跨模态心理意象和自闭症有关），并认为恋物癖最可能的决定因素是自闭症的社会和非社会特征。关于恋物癖决定因素的未来研究可以增进我们的理解，并可能减轻恋物癖者所经历的边缘化。
