mechanophilia

In 2015 a man in Thailand was caught on CCTV masturbating himself on the front end of a Porsche.{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/05/12/guy-has-sex-with-car-mechanophilia_n_7264294.html|title=Man Has Sex With Porsche In Thailand, Gets Caught On CCTV Video|newspaper=The Huffington Post UK|author=Ryan Barrell|date=12 May 2015}}

In 2008, an American named Edward Smith admitted to 'having sex' with 1000 cars, and the helicopter used in the television show Airwolf.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2000899/Man-admits-having-sex-with-1000-cars.html|title=Man admits having sex with 1,000 cars|date=21 May 2008|publisher=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=9 May 2012}}

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Mechanophilia has been used to describe important works of the early modernists, including in the Eccentric Manifesto (1922),{{cite web |url=http://koti.mbnet.fi/cgurney/reality/newbabylon/em/emcover.html |title=Eccentric Manifesto |publisher=Koti.mbnet.fi |access-date=2 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104040703/http://koti.mbnet.fi/cgurney/reality/newbabylon/em/emcover.html |archive-date=4 November 2013 |url-status=dead }} written by Leonid Trauberg, Sergei Yutkevich, Grigori Kozintsev and othersMishra, Michael (2008). A Shostakovich Companion. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger. p. 446. {{ISBN|978-0-313-30503-0}}.Kolocotroni, Vassiliki; Goldman, Jane; Taxidou, Olga (1998). Modernism{{spaced ndash}}An Anthology of Sources and Documents. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. {{ISBN|978-0-226-45073-5}}.{{spaced ndash}}members of the Factory of the Eccentric Actor, a modernist avant-garde movement that spanned Russian futurism and constructivism.

The term has entered into the realms of science fiction and popular fiction.Broderick, Damien (2009). Unleashing the Strange{{spaced ndash}}Twenty-First Century Science Fiction Literature, part of the I. O. Evans Studies in the Philosophy & Criticism of Literature, Number 47. San Bernardino, California: Borgo Press. {{ISBN|978-1-4344-5723-3}}.

Scientifically, in Biophilia{{spaced ndash}}The Human Bond with Other Species by Edward O. Wilson, Wilson is quoted describing mechanophilia, the love of machines, as "a special case of biophilia",Castricano, Jodey (2008). Animal Subjects{{spaced ndash}}An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World, part of Cultural Studies, 8. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-88920-512-3}}. whereas psychologists such as Erich Fromm would see it as a form of necrophilia.Miller, Alan (1999). Environmental Problem Solving{{spaced ndash}}Psychosocial Barriers to Adaptive Change, part of the Springer Series on Environmental Management. New York City: Springer. {{ISBN|978-0-387-98499-5}}.

Designers such as Francis Picabia and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti have been said to have exploited the sexual attraction of automobiles.McDonagh, Deana; et al. (2004). Design and Emotion{{spaced ndash}} The Experience of Everyday Things. London: Taylor & Francis. {{ISBN|978-0-415-30363-7}}.

Culturally, critics have described it as "all-pervading" within contemporary Western society and that it seems to overwhelm our society and all too often our better judgment.Heller, Steven; Meggs, Philip B. (2001). Texts on Type{{spaced ndash}}Critical Writings on Typography. Allworth Press. {{ISBN|978-1-58115-082-7}}. Although not all such uses are sexual in intent, the terms are also used for specifically erotogenic fixation on machineryRoberts, Mark S. (Autumn 1996). "Wired{{spaced ndash}}Schreber as Machine, Technophobe, and Virtualist". TDR{{spaced ndash}}The Drama Review. Vol. 40. No. 3. pp. 31–46. {{ISSN|1054-2043}}. {{OCLC|485115324}}. and taken to its extreme in hardcore pornography as Fucking Machines.Berger, Arthur Asa (1997). The Postmodern Presence{{spaced ndash}}Readings on Postmodernism in American Culture and Society. Walnut Creek, California; London: AltaMira Press. {{ISBN|978-0-7619-8980-6}}. This mainly involves women being sexually penetrated by machines for male consumption,Bonik, M.; Schaale, A. (2005). The Naked Truth{{spaced ndash}}Internet Eroticism. Institute of Network Culture. {{ISBN|978-90-78146-03-2}}{{clarify|date=February 2012|reason=isbn provided is to different title/author; unable to locate cited title/autors at worldcat; needs a bit more research}} which are seen as being the limits of current sexual biopolitics.Loza, Susana (October 2001). "Sampling (Hetero)sexuality{{spaced ndash}}Diva-ness and Discipline in Electronic Dance Music". Popular Music. Cambridge University Press. Volume 20. Number 3. pp. 349–357. {{ISSN|0261-1430}}. {{OCLC|486294262}}.

Arse Elektronika, an annual conference organized by the Austrian arts-and-philosophy collective monochrom, has propagated a DIY/feminist approach to sex machines.{{cite web|url=http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/ |title=Arse Elektronika |publisher=Monochrom.at |access-date=2 November 2013}}

Authors have drawn a connection between mechanophilia and masculine militarisation, citing the works of animator Yasuo Ōtsuka and Studio Ghibli.Lamarre, Thomas (2009). The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. {{ISBN|978-0-8166-5154-2}}.

The 1973 French film La Grande Bouffe includes a scene of a man and a car copulating, to fatal effect.

David Cronenberg's 1996 film Crash concerns a cult of people fascinated by car crashes.

The 2021 French film and Palme d'Or winner Titane depicts scenes of a mechanophilic woman having sex with cars.

• My Car Is My Lover (2008)[http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/292/my-car-is-my-lover.jsp] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091213005428/http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/292/my-car-is-my-lover.jsp|date=13 December 2009}}

• Gynoid
• Object sexuality
• I'm in Love with My Car
• Sex robot

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• Aggrawal, Anil (2009). Forensic and Medico-Legal Aspects of Sexual Crimes and Unusual Sexual Practices. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. p. 376. {{ISBN|978-1-4200-4308-2}}.
• Wilson Edward O. (1984). Biophilia{{spaced ndash}}The Human Bond with Other Species. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 116. {{ISBN|978-0-674-07441-5}}.

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